Word: belmonte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bugle. A crowd of 39.000 jamming the Belmont grounds waits expectantly as the nine horses stream around the track to the starting gate. The tote board shows that $376,243 had been wagered on the race, 65% of it on the Dancer to win, place or show...
...stable area of New York's elegant Belmont Park?Stall No. 6, Barn No. 20?lives a champion who at the age of four already seems destined to be the hero of such a legend. He is a big, muscular, aristocratic racing colt who stands 16.2 hands (5 ft. 6 in.) high and weighs an above-average 1,200 Ibs. His name: Native Dancer...
Last week, about 700,000 Americans went to the races. In 1953 the turnout was 30 million in all. Around the calendar, rain or shine, there were 107 thoroughbred race tracks to go to?such huge showplace parks as Belmont. Hialeah and Santa Anita; such tradition-misted places as Kentucky's Churchill Downs, Maryland's Pimlico or upstate New York's Saratoga; such concrete-and-asphalt betting receptacles as New York's Jamaica and Aqueduct; dozens of obscure little tracks that horsemen call "bull rings." There were 50,000 registered thoroughbreds, at least half of them in racing training...
...rest of the three-year-old season, the Dancer saw to it that the halt en route was not omitted. He took the other bright gemstones of the Triple Crown, the Preakness at a mile and three-sixteenths and the Belmont at a mile and a half, and just about every other three-year-old prize worth having east of the Mississippi. It proved that in addition to speed, the Dancer had stamina; the greater the distance, the better he seemed to go. But in September 1953 Trainer Winfrey detected some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot...
...Belmont's Barn 20 is an equine Ritz-Carlton, decorated with bright splashes of Vanderbilt's cerise and white and run by a veteran drill sergeant of a foreman who has Vanderbilt's and Winfrey's mandate to buy whatever he needs to keep the race horses fit and happy. Stall 6 is the royal suite. The Dancer, afflicted with the typical thin skin of the grey, suffers from the heat and can't stand flies, so there are fans to keep the air moving through the stall and an automatic fly-spraying system for the entire barn...