Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-5:45). The 100th running of the Belmont Stakes, third of the Triple Crown thoroughbred races, live from rebuilt Belmont Race Track, Elmont...
...traditional coldness to offers of help from the Ed School. But the CCA committeemen who have consistently voted for Harvard help are the minority on the Committee now and any slap at the quality of Cambridge schools would be disastrously impolitic. At the same time, the exodus to Belmont and Lexing ton in the last 15 years has been led by professors with school-age children, and the report could not be silent on the education of Faculty children. Still it was equivocal...
There was the ill-starred Lamb Chop, champion filly who broke a leg and had to be shot; the ill-starred Kauai King, Derby winner who pulled up lame six weeks later and never raced again; the ill-starred Cool Reception, who finished second in the Belmont on three legs...
...100th running of the Belmont on June 1 will be the race of the decade. No one wants Forward Pass to become the first Triple Crown winner in 20 years through the back door. Belmont, with its easy turns and gigantic stretch, is perfectly suited to a come-from-behind horse like Dancer's Image. If he is to earn a title besides "ill-starred," there will never be a better time...
...stretch and let him get through on the rail. Generally, a horse out in front is a horse out of trouble. That is where Forward Pass will be. The Dancer's revenge would be sweet indeed. But if he has to wait for the longer and more prestigious Belmont to squelch Forward Pass' Triple Crown hopes, it will be sweeter still. The Belmont may be another story...