Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-5:45 p.m.). The last of the Triple Crown events for three-year-old thoroughbreds, live from Aqueduct Race Track in New York...
This is a crazy game and the Triple Crown, for which millions of dollars are bet all winter on horses that never even get to the post, is probably the craziest part of it all. There won't be a Triple Crown winner this year, and tomorrow's Belmont Stakes, the oldest, last, and longest of the three races resolves itself into one question: which horse will make it two out of three-- Proud Clarion, who beat Damascus in the third-fastest Derby in history, or Damascus, who beat Proud Clarion in the second-fastest Preakness...
...looked like it might be the Derby all over again. But he tired and his stride shortened, while Damascus, without the whip through the last half furlong, kept drawing away. The slow-motion TV camera caught his almost effortless stride at the end, and it looked as if the Belmont's additional 5/16 of a mile could have been his for the asking...
...Solar Bomb will go to the post only for reasons of misplaced nostalgia. Last year his stablemate Kauai King, who won the Derby and the Preakness, tried for the crown in the Belmont and finished fourth. That is a lot better than Solar Bomb will do tomorrow. The time has come to keep the faith...
...Crimson linksmen continue their season tomorrow in a match against Williams and Boston College tentatively scheduled for the Charles River Country Club. Since that course has not yet opened, the event will probably be held at the Oakley Country Club in Belmont...