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Runkle's lurching, furtive journey to her death may have started on Saturday, July 25. That night she dined at a Manhattan steak house with Axthelm, whom she had been seeing occasionally since the Kentucky Derby in May. After dinner, Runkle returned to her office at Belmont Park Race Track, just outside New York City and not far from where she lived. She later wrote Axthelm: "We never really loved each other." According to her letter, Runkle called Campo later that night; he flew down from upstate Saratoga Springs, then returned with Runkle to Saratoga the next...
...Wednesday her family was anxious, and her sister Dianne Ramirez launched a search. In Janice's Volvo, parked at Belmont, Ramirez found a bank statement with a five-figure balance and a note bequeathing the money to Piggy Bank, her riding horse...
...children's book (Piggy Bank and the Magic Peppermint Penny) scheduled for publication this winter. She yearned to create one character "people will remember," to make her ultimate mark as a writer of fiction. "Nobody," she said not long ago, "is going to remember a vet at Belmont Park...
...Blade closed to finish second by a neck, and Pleasant Colony was fading as he came to the wire 1½ lengths behind the leader. Summing, who paid $17.80 to win, finished in 2 min. 29 sec., one of the slower times in the 113-year history of the Belmont...
Owner Charles T. Wilson Jr., a Mexico City businessman, did not know that his colt would even be entered in the Belmont until Barrera told him of his plans after the Pennsylvania Derby. Said Wilson: "I've been in racing long enough to try to be dumb about these things. An owner's principal function is to pay his bills." With a fat Belmont purse of $170,580 safely tucked away, paying the bills will be no problem...