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...Belmont Park, N.Y., Christopher T. Chenery's big bay three-year-old, Hill Prince, the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup, by four lengths over the California champion, Noor, his leading rival for horse-of-the-year honors. The win moved Hill Prince ahead of Noor for top money-winner of the year ($263,715 to date...
...Through the College grapevine" they heard about a fine young clarinetist, Oliver S. Taylor '53, Professor Taylor's son, who was then attending the Belmont Hill School. They found that Taylor was not only enthusiastic about joining their group, but that he could also recommend a good trumpeter, a Milton Academy boy named Bruce Elwell. (Elwell, relatively young and inexperienced compared to the others, has since moved on to Rollins College in Florida...
There, the colt-named Battlefield (by War Relic-Dark Display)-pricked his ears and began to run. By last weekend, when 14 of the finest two-year-olds in the U.S. went to the post for the 61st running of Belmont's Futurity, Battlefield had won so many stakes he was the odds-on (19-20) favorite. In twelve starts, he had won nine times, never been out of the money, earned...
Battlefield's $81,715 first money brought his winnings to $198,677-an all-time record for a two-year-old colt.* It was the third Futurity win for both Arcaro and Owner Widener, who is president of Belmont Park and chairman of the Jockey Club as well as a good picker of sales yearlings...
...first two official meets--including next Saturday's three-way contest--the Crimson will be allowed to put in extra runners for time-trial purposes because Harvard has no satisfactory home course, but must travel to Belmont or Franklin Park for its races...