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...Arts and Letters was destined to become one of history's great also rans. Paul Mellon's wiry three-year-old lost by a neck to the magnificent California chestnut, Majestic Prince, in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. The Prince was favored to take the Belmont Stakes and thereby become the first thoroughbred to win racing's Triple Crown since Citation turned the trick in 1948. But the race was not even close: guided by the steady hand of Braulio Baeza, Arts and Letters whipped Majestic Prince by 5½ lengths...
Since then, Arts and Letters has romped through the season as blithely as a stud in pasture. He won impressive victories in some rugged stakes races, including the Travers, Metropolitan Mile and Jim Dandy Mile. He recently returned to New York's Belmont Park and, with Baeza again in the saddle, swept to a two-length win over No-double in the $106,000 Woodward Stakes. His time: 2 min. 1 sec., a scant second off the track record set by Kelso in 1961. That triumph also brought his 1969 earnings to $486,574, which placed the tough little...
This Saturday, Arts and Letters will teach the handicap horses how to run. The arena will he spacious Belmont Park, and the conditions weight...
Since then he has beaten America's best handicap horse, Nodouble, in the Metropolitan Mile, America's best three year old. Majestie Prince, in the Belmont Stakes, and subsequently won the Jim Dandy Stakes by ten lengths and the Travers by six and a half lengths. There is no horse in America who can run with him at distances over a mile...
...Harvard and Radcliffe students who leave each year to go to mental hospitals, the trip to the other side is more often a slow, sad spiral than a sudden leap. In recent interviews, nine students who have been at McLean Hospital, a large, private, Harvard-staffed institution in Belmont, talked about freaking out-why they went, where they went, and what they found...