Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...district includes Cambridge, Allston-Brighton, Waltham, Watertown, Somerville, Belmont, Arlington, and Boston's Back...
...acknowledged front-runner has emerged in the group of candidates seeking to represent the Middlesex-Suffolk district, which comprises northern Cambridge, Allston-Brighton, Watertown, and Belmont, including parts of Harvard's Business School...
Forty-five Thoroughbred horses, one stable pony, several cats, rabbits and a goat were killed a few weeks ago in a fire at New York's Belmont Park, producing a momentary headline as familiar as the chill of winter. By the standards of today's racing business, which is to say the standards of Arabian sheiks, it was an undistinguished lot, though three of the horses belonged to Nelson Bunker Hunt, a man of redoubtable means, and all but nine were trained by Johnny Campo, who saddled Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Pleasant Colony in 1981. That fine spring, Campo...
...millions of dollars at the Keeneland yearling sales in Kentucky. Mating the old family mare, Better Queen, to a vagabond called Charlie Coast, Hayward bred Concession in the backyard at Nissequogue, N.Y., weaned her, broke her and mucked stalls for $6 an hour to keep her at Belmont. When the Jockey Club rejected the grand name Hayward first submitted, Royal Prerogative, Katrina and her leggy bay conceded their plainness with grace and humor. Concession would have made it to the races this month...
Once, she and Johnny Campo Jr. were the only juveniles tolerated on the grounds at Belmont, where in the late '60s her mother was the sole female groom. Suddenly widowed, Cornelia Hayward elected this hard and unfamiliar work out of a vague affection for horses, picked up during her girlhood in Saratoga Springs. But mostly it was a way of keeping Katrina with her all the time: they rose together at 4 and went off to brush the horses...