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There was the ill-starred Lamb Chop, champion filly who broke a leg and had to be shot; the ill-starred Kauai King, Derby winner who pulled up lame six weeks later and never raced again; the ill-starred Cool Reception, who finished second in the Belmont on three legs...
...stretch and let him get through on the rail. Generally, a horse out in front is a horse out of trouble. That is where Forward Pass will be. The Dancer's revenge would be sweet indeed. But if he has to wait for the longer and more prestigious Belmont to squelch Forward Pass' Triple Crown hopes, it will be sweeter still. The Belmont may be another story...
Fuller said yesterday that he has not yet decided whether to run his horse in the Preakness and the Belmont, the final two races of the Triple Crown. The disqualification gives the new victor's owner, Calumet Farm, an unprecedented eight Derby winners. Forward Pass joins the ranks of such Calumet greats as 1948 Derby-winner Citation, who went on to become the last winner of the Triple Crown...
Beyond the social atmosphere are a series of purely logistical problems that keep the Senior Faculty away from the Houses. "Only four kinds of professors live in Cambridge," the axiom runs, "the young, the rich, the childless, and the emeritus." Most of the rest live in Belmont where the schools are better and housing is easier to find. It is difficult to lure these men back to Cambridge for House activities at night...
Harriet Baxter, who graduated from Pembroke and holds an M.S.S. from Smith, is a psychiatric social worker at McLean Hospital in Belmont. In 1966, she worked in a British out-patient psychiatric clinic while her husband was a Guggenheim fellow at Cambridge...