Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Mass...
...Beau Purple, Jack Dreyfus' temperamental, long-striding sprinter, who insists on taking the lead at the start of a race: the $114,800 Man O' War Stakes on the turf at New York's Belmont Park-a contest that was billed as a match race between Carry Back, winner of more than $1,000,000 in three years, and Kelso, the Horse of the Year in 1960 and 1961. Almost unnoticed by betters, who let him go off at 20-1, Beau Purple fought off Kelso's challenge to win by two lengths. Carry Back finished...
...Kelso, Horse of the Year in 1960 and 1961, considered by many U.S. horsemen to be the best thoroughbred since Man o' War: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup at New York's Belmont Park, for an unprecedented third year in a row. Ridden by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, who never had to use his whip, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding breezed to an easy ten-length victory, covered the two miles in 3 min. 19-4/5 sec.-breaking Nashua's track record. Kelso's $70,785 winner...
Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, owner of Cain Hoy Stable, whose Dark Star handed the great Native Dancer the only defeat of his career in the 1953 Kentucky Derby: a sweep of Belmont Park's opening-week Cowdin and Lawrence Realization stakes. Guggenheim's speedy two-year-old Never Bend swept to a three-length triumph in the seven-furlong Cowdin, and his three-year-old Battle Joined came home in front by two lengths in the 1⅝-mile Lawrence. Prosperous Cain Hoy's winnings for the week...
...Returning to the races for the first time since his stirring victory in the Belmont Stakes last June, George D. Widener's handsome, cantankerous dark bay colt Jaipur swept to an easy, 4½-length victory in the $56,300 Choice Stakes at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, virtually clinched three-year-old Horse of the Year honors...