Word: belmonte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Preakness, chalk players are already arguing over which colt is Horse of the Year. They could be wasting their time. The top three-year-old thoroughbred may not even have been in the starting gate at Churchill Downs or Pimlico. Nor is it likely to be at Belmont on June 7 for the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel in racing's Triple Crown. The superhorse of 1975 could very well be a lady: Ruffian, the fastest filly in memory. Before the summer is out, she may get a chance to prove her supremacy in a clash with...
...tinge of self-mockery--the impatience of a person who takes certain things for granted, maybe--was typical: the same slight aloofness you sense when Smithies says he spends his free time "rowing boats and toiling in my garden," as though the joys of domesticity in Belmont, like England, are a little too structured for his taste. But that didn't stop the CIA letter from kicking up a minor storm...
Pipkin said that Bossert had reservations about removing his children from the Belmont Schools they have been attending. In addition, Bossert has been on sabattical in Vienna this year and has not been able to discuss the offer with other House masters, he said...
...beaten them all. Singh was far and away the best in the New York circuit, but a pulled ligament put him out of action for the Wood and the Derby. As it stands, Singh could well be a dramatic spoiler in the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes. It all depends on how he comes back from the dangerous injury...
Brower's family will hold a memorial service for him at 3 p.m. on April 1, at their house at I Hay Road in Belmont. The University will hold a separate memorial service at a time to be announced later...