Word: belmontized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse-racing season covers a full year, from January1 to December 31. During the current season, the two biggest money-winning U. S. race horses have been three-year-old War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), and four-year-old Seabiscuit, champion of the handicap division. Horse-race followers would have liked to see a match between them, but, failing that, were interested to see which would win most money for their respective owners, Samuel D. Riddle and Charles S. Howard. Twice this season War Admiral and Seabiscuit...
...carpetless cabin-interior at Belmont, Fla., with a crippled Negro boy propped up in a homemade chair: "Little brother began shriveling up eleven years...
Also a graduate of Milton Academy, Winslow W. Wright, whose home is in Milton, placed second, while William J. Underwood of Belmont, who attended Belmont Hill, was retained as the second assistant...
Army's football team will arrive in town tonight at 9:30 o'clock. They will detrain at Auburndale and stay overnight at the Belmont Country Club...
Solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa.: the $12,000 Belmont Open, world's richest tournament for professional golfers; defeating his neighbor, Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa. in the final, 5 & 4; in a driving rainstorm; at Belmont. Mass. Runner-up Picard's $2,000 share of the purse upped his season's winnings to $9,916, second to top money-winner Harry Cooper of Chicago who has accumulated $12,973. Nelson's winning share, $3,000, put him in fifth place...