Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kelso, 1960's "horse of the year," entered the $110,600 Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park a heavy favorite, defied a Woodward tradition that favorites rarely win, and whisked to a six-length win (the last five had not) in 2:00 flat to tie a 48-year-old track record, boosted his 1961 earnings...
...withdraw from the NDEA program has proved only that this is no longer the dramatic era of the McCarthy inquisitions, and that all eyes are not focused on pompous old Harvard. True, Kennedy et al. went to Harvard, and all sorts of people, from a candy maker in Belmont to a small-time landlady in New Jersey, have exclaimed over that. But the harsh truth seems to be that, in the halls of Congress where laws are hammered out, nobody cares what Harvard thinks...
Such a horse is hard to find. Occasionally, the auctioneer knocks down a real bargain: Sherluck, winner of this year's $148,650 Belmont Stakes, sold as a yearling at Saratoga in 1959 for $10,500. At the same sale, fleet-footed Globemaster, best U.S. three-year-old, was purchased by Pittsburgh Coalman Leonard Sasso for $80,000, has repaid Sasso with $300.000 in prize money. With a few such exceptions, buying yearlings-which are a year away from any track-is a risky proposition. Training injuries and illness are common among thoroughbreds, and even a well-blooded yearling...
...better contest is the job of the track handicapper, who assigns weights-including saddle, jockey and lead slugs slipped into the saddlebags-to slow down the fast runner, give the other horses a chance to compete. At the nation's top race tracks-New York State's Belmont, Saratoga and Aqueduct -the man who decides how heavy a load the horses will carry is a tall, freckled handicapper with the eminently horsey name of Tommy Trotter...
...field of nine thoroughbreds paraded onto Belmont's 1½-mi. track, playful Carry Back seemed unnaturally placid. But the crowd sensed nothing amiss. At one time or another. Carry Back had trounced every other horse in the race. "The only thing that can beat him," crowed Owner Jack Price, "is bad racing luck." By post time, Carry Back was a prohibitive 2-to-5 favorite-every other entry was a long shot. Longest shot of all was a dark bay colt named Sherluck, who had won only one stakes race in two years. The odds on Sherluck...