Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contributions, which will be used for the aid of Dutch refugees, can be sent to Professor Auer at 111 Fletcher Road, Belmont; to Reiss at C-32 Hamilton Hall, Harvard Business School; or to Holland-America Lines, 555 Boylston Street, Boston. Reiss asked for "one dollar or less" from each student...
...only six of the 45 big race tracks in the U. S. (Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, Pimlico, Delaware Park, Laurel Park) can railbirds see the sportiest of all horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...
With fewer & fewer owners racing jumpers (and purses consequently decreased), steeplechasing became the monopoly of a few rich stables. Two years ago, 30% of the jumpers at Belmont were owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney, F. Ambrose Clark and Thomas Hitchcock...
Many are the newly-registered racing silks, notably those of New York Racing Commissioner John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who started his stable of jumpers last year; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, enter prising young president of Belmont; and Hollywood's Cinemagnate Louis...
Mayer, who has spent close to $1,000,000 on thoroughbreds in the last two years. At Belmont last week six or seven horses, in stead of the usual two or three of former years, went to the post in the daily steeplechase events...