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...BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-5:45). The 100th running of the Belmont Stakes, third of the Triple Crown thoroughbred races, live from rebuilt Belmont Race Track, Elmont...
...turfmen, Belmont Park-just over the New York City boundary in Long Island's Nassau County-has always been a track apart. Not that the 63-year-old park is all that venerable; Saratoga is 41 years its senior. True, it is the setting for some of the most prestigious U.S. races, including the Belmont Stakes, traditionally the third gem in the Triple Crown. But what made Belmont really special was that society's horsemen built it to their own specifications. So overwhelming was the track's mood of genteel opulence that it even awed...
...Belmont attracted the top thorough bred champions, even in the days when the track insisted on its English accent and ran races "the wrong way" (clockwise, in the British fashion). This quirk was not abandoned until 1920, the historic year that Man o' War, fighting for his head all the way, won the Belmont Stakes by 20 lengths and set a world's record. But for the past six years, while a new $30.7 million grandstand was being built, Belmont has existed only as a practice track, and its classic races have been run elsewhere. The worrisome question...
...traditional coldness to offers of help from the Ed School. But the CCA committeemen who have consistently voted for Harvard help are the minority on the Committee now and any slap at the quality of Cambridge schools would be disastrously impolitic. At the same time, the exodus to Belmont and Lexing ton in the last 15 years has been led by professors with school-age children, and the report could not be silent on the education of Faculty children. Still it was equivocal...
...100th running of the Belmont on June 1 will be the race of the decade. No one wants Forward Pass to become the first Triple Crown winner in 20 years through the back door. Belmont, with its easy turns and gigantic stretch, is perfectly suited to a come-from-behind horse like Dancer's Image. If he is to earn a title besides "ill-starred," there will never be a better time...