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Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, owner of Cain Hoy Stable, whose Dark Star handed the great Native Dancer the only defeat of his career in the 1953 Kentucky Derby: a sweep of Belmont Park's opening-week Cowdin and Lawrence Realization stakes. Guggenheim's speedy two-year-old Never Bend swept to a three-length triumph in the seven-furlong Cowdin, and his three-year-old Battle Joined came home in front by two lengths in the 1⅝-mile Lawrence. Prosperous Cain Hoy's winnings for the week...
...Returning to the races for the first time since his stirring victory in the Belmont Stakes last June, George D. Widener's handsome, cantankerous dark bay colt Jaipur swept to an easy, 4½-length victory in the $56,300 Choice Stakes at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, virtually clinched three-year-old Horse of the Year honors...
...ONLY. Anti-Semitism, less virulent in European social circles than in the U.S., increased in America around the turn of the century (probably as a result of the waves of immigration from central Europe), and not many Jews have rooted themselves as solidly in the Old Guard as August Belmont (1853-1924), whose name is a Franco-Anglicization of Schoenberg. Roman Catholics are solidly Old Guard in such Catholic-settled cities as New Or leans, St. Louis and Baltimore, but in heavily Catholic Boston they-and therefore the Kennedys-have been far more Out than...
...boys' school, and is being razed to become part of the campus of a girls' college. Ochre Court, built in 1888-91 by Ogden Goelet, is a Roman Catholic women's college. The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt and Belcourt, the house of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, are tourist attractions; The Breakers draws some 50,000 curious trippers a year at $1.75 a head...
...Belmont Stakes (CBS, 4:30-5 p.m.). The 94th running of this $125,000 added racing classic...