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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...
...stakes record (the sixth time she has broken a race mark). This Saturday she will go for the second installment of the filly triple crown, the Mother Goose at Aqueduct. Should she win that, as well as the final race (the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont on June 21), the handicappers will have to start comparing her to 1973 Triple Crown Winner Secretariat. One expert already has. After watching Ruffian run away with the vaunted Spinaway stakes at Saratoga last summer, Secretariat's trainer Lucien Laurin declared, "As God is my judgment, this filly may be better than...
Whiteley, 60, is an authority on class. The sinewy, white-haired track veteran trained Damascus, Tom Rolfe and Chieftain, three brilliant performers. Mounted on a pony, he escorts Ruffian to and from Belmont's barn No. 34 every morning at dawn for her daily workouts. Afterward, he soaks her front legs in a tub of ice water, then he and Groom Daniel Williams pack all four legs in damp clay to keep them cool. When he is not busy with Ruffian, Whiteley can usually be found working with another of his 19 horses...
...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...