Word: belmontized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What had started as an enterprise of civic pride went on the same way. Members of the club agreed to take no profits from the track, put $2,500,000 more into improvements. Arlington Park became to Chicago's five race tracks what Belmont Park is to New York City's four. In 1931, its best season, $18,000,000 was wagered in 30 days. What improvements to make after purses have been raised may be a problem. The track already has the largest grandstand in the U. S., an "eye in the sky" to photograph close finishes...
...member agreed to sell 40% of his common stock holdings. If the whole 140,000 shares are sold, the members will divide $980,000 and still have 210,000 shares, for which the offering price is $8.75 per share. Appropriately, the stock was being sold last week by August Belmont & Co., founded in 1837 by the same precocious young German who became President of The Jockey Club, gave his name to New York's Belmont Park...
...Kentucky Derby most nearly approaches the Epsom Derby as a spectacle, the Belmont Stakes, run at 1½miles and, judged by the blood lines of its winners, the most aristocratic U. S. race, most nearly approaches it as a test of three-year-olds. Because all the hard-luck horses who were sufficiently fit to function were entered in it, last week's Belmont drew a record crowd of 35,000. Bookmakers made Brevity favorite...
Like most major U. S. tracks Belmont Park has a camera which automatically photographs the finish of every race. Last week, after the Belmont Stakes, officials studied the photograph of the finish for five minutes, finally revealed the name of one more hard-luck horse. He, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones, had finished second by a whisker to Granville. Favorite Brevity was fifth...
Moravian College (Bethlehem, Pa.) Mrs. August Belmont ... Litt.D...