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Probably most of the team's inconveniences can be attributed to the University's failure to buy the Belmont Country Club in the thirties...
Cash for the Contract. In 1961 Baeza nursed a long shot (odds: 65-1) named Sherluck to victory in the l½-mile Belmont Stakes. In 1963, aboard a 9-1 shot, Chateaugay, he made up ten lengths to win the Kentucky Derby and realize his boyhood dream. In 1964 Baeza had a falling-out with Hooper, settled it by buying back his contract for $100,000 in cash. He soon got half of that back from one horse alone: Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser, who last year won $568,096, more money than any other two-year...
This year promises to be even better -barring any more accidents. Baeza has the mount on John Galbreath's unbeaten Graustark, who might become the first Triple Crown winner in 17 years. Baeza is practicing for the Derby, Preakness and Belmont by winning just about everything else in sight. Last month he became the first jockey ever to win five races in one day at Hialeah. Twice, he has won four in a day; six times, he has won three. Last week, with ten days still left of Hialeah's 40-day meeting, Baeza had already...
...example, he concluded from a statement of mine on baby-sitting being a major expense for Nieman Fellows that I am missing out a t Harvard because "He and his wife spend most of their evenings in Belmont" (where I live...
Bass is affiliated with Dunster House (each Fellow has a House affiliation) but visits there "only about once every other week." He and his wife spend most of their evenings in Belmont "because babysitting is a major expense." Both married and single Nieman Fellows receive the same stipend of $160 a week...