Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star that rose out of Suffolk Downs two springs ago fell to earth unexpectedly last Saturday, accompanied by unusually grim fanfare, even for the hand of fate. The crack of a foreleg placed wrong, followed by the thud of a three-year-old colt hiring Belmont's hard dirt track at full speed, were the sounds to which the celebrated horse Timely Writer, made his final exit from racing...
...between Timely Writer and the Triple Crown' stood the unhappy timing of a bizarre intestinal twist which left the colt recuperating from emergency surgery while the spring's Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes passed him by. The experts gave the horse only even odds to survive the operation, but by August he had put in a victorious appearance at Saratoga. This served notice that the son of Staff Writer had regained his earlier form, and going into the Jerome Handicap in early September he looked like the Boston horse...
...hearings that precede the Senate vote, he was badgered mercilessly by Committee Democrats eager to embarrass the President. His principal nemesis was Donald Riegle of Michigan, who hectored Feldstein about everything from his personal wealth to whether, because he didn't know the monthly cost of heating his Belmont, Mass., home, he was insensitive about the amount of money that Social Security recipients pay for utilities...
...races: I like Little Playmate, sitting there at a cool 7-2, in the 12th at Raynham (Post Time, 1:15 p.m.)for starters. The lady grey has the outside post position, but it says here that she gets out quickly and holds on in the stretch. Down it Belmont(also 1:15), I've got feelings for Fair Rosalind in the fifth (with fading thoughts about Timely Writer in the eighth--the $500,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup. Rosalind is packing a hefty 122 pounds, but as dark horse or dark lady, she's a good...
...biggest news at Saratoga last week came when Industrialist Henryk de Kwiatkowski announced that his Belmont Stakes winner, Conquistador Cielo, had been syndicated to a group of breeders for $36.4 million, making him the most expensive horse in history. Meanwhile, all week long, a favored few took their reserved seats inside Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion and fascinated onlookers gathered before outdoor monitors to view the auctions of untried yearlings for stratospheric sums. In one wild bidding session, a world-record filly price of $2.1 million was paid for a daughter of The Minstrel. After four tense evenings, traders had ponied...