Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman game with Belmont Hill was cancelled...
...jockey when today's veteran best-Eddie Arcaro and Ted Atkinson-were wearing diapers. He raced to victory on horses with such names as Man o' War, Zev, Flying Ebony, Gallant Fox. and he won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times. In a time of purses far smaller than today's, he brought home more than $3,000,000 worth. In the age of sport known as golden, Jockey Earl Sande was the best in his business...
...hard to keep trimmed down to racing weight, and he called it a career. He made comebacks in 1930 and 1932, then settled down as a horse trainer. Last week, his share of $3,000,000 worth of purses long gone, Earl Sande told his fellow trainers at Belmont Park that he was ready to try booting them in again. At 54, he had managed to diet down to 113 Ibs., about 25 less than he weighed last spring. Examined by a track doctor, Earl was pronounced...
...third race at Belmont early this week, Earl had himself a mount. Trainer Hirsch Jacobs asked him to ride Honest Bread, an undistinguished three-year-old gelding who finished out of the money in his only start this year. The crowd gave the bald little jockey a roaring reception, and sentimentally made his horse the second favorite. Jockey Sande brought his mount in third. "I got a little tired and so did the horse," said Sande, "but at least we didn't dissolve our partnership...
...Belmont Park, a big brown colt named Porterhouse, of Llangollen Farm, ran away from a field of 13 other top two-year-olds to win the Belmont Futurity, $92,875, and delayed recognition as the pick of the two-year-old division. Despite his winning ways on the same track this year, the bettors sent him off at the unaccountably long odds of 7-1, while hustling to dump their money on the Midwest favorite, Hasty Road, which finished tenth...