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...better contest is the job of the track handicapper, who assigns weights-including saddle, jockey and lead slugs slipped into the saddlebags-to slow down the fast runner, give the other horses a chance to compete. At the nation's top race tracks-New York State's Belmont, Saratoga and Aqueduct -the man who decides how heavy a load the horses will carry is a tall, freckled handicapper with the eminently horsey name of Tommy Trotter...
...unwritten law that U.S. Presidents cannot be seen hanging around race tracks. For eight years, while he was President, Dwight D. Eisenhower hewed to convention. But last week, Horse Fancier Eisenhower (he has quarter horses at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm) stood in the rain at New York's Belmont Park with 51,585 other breed improvers to watch the 93rd running of the Belmont Stakes. For Ike, as for everyone else, the star attraction was Carry Back-a little, long-tailed colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and needed only the Belmont to become the first...
...field of nine thoroughbreds paraded onto Belmont's 1½-mi. track, playful Carry Back seemed unnaturally placid. But the crowd sensed nothing amiss. At one time or another. Carry Back had trounced every other horse in the race. "The only thing that can beat him," crowed Owner Jack Price, "is bad racing luck." By post time, Carry Back was a prohibitive 2-to-5 favorite-every other entry was a long shot. Longest shot of all was a dark bay colt named Sherluck, who had won only one stakes race in two years. The odds on Sherluck...
Triple Crown Race (CBS, 4:30-5 p.m.). They're off in the Belmont Stakes...
...spurred a little, long-tailed brown colt named Carry Back into outrunning the limited promise of his unimpressive pedigree. With victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness behind him and capable Jockey Johnny Sellers in his saddle, Carry Back will parade to the post for the $125,000 Belmont Stakes this week, an odds-on favorite to become the first thoroughbred in 13 years to win U.S. racing's elusive Triple Crown...