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After losing three out of four races this year to Preakness Winner Hill Prince, Middleground, winner of the Kentucky Derby, was beginning to look like something of a fluke. As 39,000 spectators craned toward the starting gate at New York's Belmont Park last week, Hill Prince was the odds-on (17-20) choice to wrap up the rubber match of 1950's top three-year-old races...
High as any jockey could be on his horse,* Arcaro thought the Prince might turn out to be "one of the greatest horses of our day"-except for his habit of getting away slowly, "in a class with Citation." Next month's mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, third and longest race in the triple crown, would be a major test. On pedigree, Hill Prince should like the extra distance; his sire, Princequillo, did. Said Arcaro: "We should have clear sailing...
...High School; Allan R. Robinson, Marblehead High; Richard C. Lundin, Medford High School; David M. Whalen, Medford High School; Arthur I. Brown, Jr., Newton High School; Robert G. Funke, North Attleboro High; William F. Pickard, Jr., Quincy High School; Wilmon B. Chipman, Reading High School; Hubert C. Maguire, Jr., Belmont High School; John F. King, Concord High; John F. Pereira, Jr., New Bedford High; Maurice P. Billings, Jr., Spaulding Memorial School; Ralph L. Zani, North High School; Donald R. Whitehead, Quincy High; and Thomas H. York, Dedham High School...
When Middleground and Hill Prince ran one-two in the Kentucky Derby, a big, paunchy, 73-year-old man solemnly rose in his paneled office at New York's Belmont Park and drank a silent toast to himself. Five months before, John Blanks Campbell had closed the office door, sat down with his file of last year's two-year-olds and decided that Middleground would be the three-year-old to beat. In his Experimental Free Handicap weights, he rated Middleground at the top with 126 lbs., about a length better than Hill Prince...
Last week, when Jockey Eddie Arcaro and Hill Prince pounded home a length and a half ahead of Middleground in the Withers mile at Belmont, Handicapper Campbell had a word for it: "Luck plays the biggest part. I figure, guess and be damned...