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...Counterpoint, C. V. Whitney's brilliant, brittle colt, the $59,600 Empire City Handicap; at Jamaica, N.Y. The victory made him the top money-winner ($250,525) of the year, but a cracked hoof put him-out of competition until...
...Marcel Boussac, French textile tycoon, the one-mile-Houghton Stakes at Newmarket, with his two-year-old colt Auriban, thus becoming the leading money-winner in Britain ($103,716) for the second year...
Counterpoint's win finally convinced most skeptics that the C. V. Whitney homebred* is a natural distance runner. The winner's share of the $35,800 Gold Cup purse brings the colt's 1951 earnings to a total of $209,025. If his racing luck holds, he will probably end the year as the leading money-winner as well as the three-year-old and horse-of-the-year titleholder...
...yearling, Counterpoint cracked a bone in his ankle, and it was questionable whether he would ever get to the races ("You wouldn't have given $200 for him," said his trainer afterwards). As a two-year-old, the colt raced only twice, earning a measly $700. This year, since running a dull eleventh in the Kentucky Derby, he has turned into the runningest three-year-old in the U.S. He broke the track record at Belmont to win the Peter Pan Handicap, captured the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, bruised a foot so badly he was laid...
...Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, the $86,710 Belmont Futurity; in New York. The victory was the colt's fourth in six starts, brought his season earnings to $120,685, and gave Tom Fool a good claim on the two-year-old championship...