Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Assault romped home in the Kentucky Derby at 8-to-1, the smart horse players said, "Wait for the Preakness." In the Preakness, Assault beat Elizabeth Arden's Lord Boswell by just a neck. In the Belmont Stakes, last of horse racing's Big Three for three-year-olds, great gobs of smart money again went on Lord Boswell he finished fifth, 5½ lengths behind Winner Assault...
...will be a double feature day for Bob Ashley's tennis squad tomorrow. His jayvee team clashes with Bowdoin College at Brunswick, and the Varsity will face Belmont Tennis Club at the Dillon Field Courts...
Unique among the secretarial students is Miss Barbara Corrigan of Belmont, an ex-Wave who is studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...
...TIME still thinks that Mrs. Graham's stable was the most newsworthy pre-Derby racing subject, agrees that Assault has since stolen the three-year-old horse show-and has twice said so, in reporting Assault's victories in the Preakness (May 20 issue) and Belmont Stakes (June...
...Belmont's mile-and-a-half is a long grind; the starting pace was slow. Jockey Warren Mehrtens, up on Assault, had orders to hold him back until Lord Boswell made his move. Jockey Mehrtens dutifully obeyed for a mile, decided he could wait no longer, and set out for the leaders. Assault overtook them in the home stretch, finished three lengths ahead. His winning time (2:30 4/5) was nothing sensational, but the victory put the Texas-bred horse into racing's select seven that have won All Three.* It also made Assault the 13th biggest prizewinner...