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Pike, who doubles as aquatic director at the Belmont Hill Club, acknowledges that dreams of a championship are just that. "Brown is still the best team in New England," he says, adding, "We're playing as aggressive a schedule as we can get." The team will use the battles against opponents "to learn as much as we can and apply that when the playoffs come around," Pike says...
Pike, who doubles as aquatic director at the Belmont Hill Club, acknowledges that dreams of a championship are just that. "Brown is still the best team in New England," he says, adding, "We're playing as aggressive a schedule as we can get." The team will use the battles against opponents "to learn as much as we can and apply that when the playoffs come around," Pike says...
Overlooked in the emotional duel between Genuine Risk and Codex was a typical Belmont field: a collection of dangerous colts that had been lightly raced through the spring, lying in wait for the favorites to falter. Among them was Temperence Hill. The Kentucky-bred bay colt had won the Arkansas Derby, then faltered in his final Triple Crown prep races and been returned to his home stable on the Belmont backstretch to recoup. Trainer Joe Cantey decided to test his horse in the Withers Stakes, one week after the Kentucky Derby, but the colt finished second and Temperence Hill...
When bettors looked up his credentials for the Belmont, they discovered that Temperence Hill seemed even further off form after the Withers. He ambled home fifth, eleven lengths behind the leader, in the Pennsylvania Derby. The colt had come in third in his last outing, a simple allowance race. It was hardly a flashy showing-or classy company-for a colt bent on winning the most difficult of the Triple Crown classics. Not surprisingly, Temperence Hill went off at 50-to-l odds. But the Belmont, with its withering distance of 1½ miles and its deep, fatiguing track-compounded...
...twelve have come home winners. Last year Coastal blasted out of the field to crush Spectacular Bid's try for the Triple Crown; in 1961, Carry Back was whipped by Sherluck, which paid $130.10 on a $2 bet, the longest upset odds in Triple Crown history. The 1980 Belmont was to prove the same, as Temperence Hill put on a rousing stretch run to sail to the wire two lengths ahead of Genuine Risk. The Loblolly Farm colt returned...