Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Ruffian, 3, one of the fleetest, most beautiful fillies in racing history; by an injection of phenobarbital after injuries suffered during a $350,000 match race at New York's Belmont Park race track (see SPORT...
...began as the race of the year when the two horses broke from the starting gate at New York's Belmont Park for the much-ballyhooed mile-and-a-quarter match race. The contest between the record-breaking three-year-old filly Ruffian, winner in all ten of her starts and holder of the filly's Triple Crown for 1975, and the Kentucky Derby-winning colt Foolish Pleasure was a perfect Him v. Her extravaganza for the 50,764 people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then...
...could convince him I was a hit man working for a large olive oil concern out of Newark. Maybe I could claim to be making book on the upcoming Belmont Stakes. I don't remember what I said. I quickly exceed myself and beclined...
...stakes record (the sixth time she has broken a race mark). This Saturday she will go for the second installment of the filly triple crown, the Mother Goose at Aqueduct. Should she win that, as well as the final race (the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont on June 21), the handicappers will have to start comparing her to 1973 Triple Crown Winner Secretariat. One expert already has. After watching Ruffian run away with the vaunted Spinaway stakes at Saratoga last summer, Secretariat's trainer Lucien Laurin declared, "As God is my judgment, this filly may be better than...
Whiteley, 60, is an authority on class. The sinewy, white-haired track veteran trained Damascus, Tom Rolfe and Chieftain, three brilliant performers. Mounted on a pony, he escorts Ruffian to and from Belmont's barn No. 34 every morning at dawn for her daily workouts. Afterward, he soaks her front legs in a tub of ice water, then he and Groom Daniel Williams pack all four legs in damp clay to keep them cool. When he is not busy with Ruffian, Whiteley can usually be found working with another of his 19 horses...