Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calumet Farm did it again last week. Wistful, a sleek chestnut filly trained by Calumet's Ben and Jimmy Jones. (TIME, May 30), charged through the stretch at Belmont Park to win the Coaching Club American Oaks by a half length. The victory stamped Wistful, an odds-on favorite, as easily the best three-year-old filly in the U.S.; it also cinched another $48,700 for Calumet Farm...
Under the new policy, sophomores and juniors other than residents of Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Brighton, Brookline, Cambridge, Dorchester, Somerville, and Watertown may live at College...
After Coaltown, with 130 Ibs. up, romped home last month by seven lengths in the $50,000-added Gallant Fox Handicap, he was assigned 138 Ibs. for Memorial Day's Suburban Handicap at Belmont. "That would strip his gears," stormed Ben, "and if he won, the next time they'd put 145 on him." In short, Coaltown was a very doubtful starter in the Suburban...
...been idle since he was "fired"* for an ankle injury five months ago. According to present plans, he will run in Chicago this summer. Shuddering to think of how much poundage handicappers would pile on him, Ben Jones is looking ahead to such weight-for-age fall classics as Belmont's Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Pimlico Special...
...outstanding three-year-old filly of the season after her victories in the Kentucky and Pimlico Oaks, has drawn a sharp bead on this weekend's rich Coaching Club American Oaks. Calumet's 1949 Kentucky Derby winner, Ponder (son of Pensive), is one of the favorites for the Belmont Stakes two weeks hence...