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Trainer Elliott Burch worried for a week before he decided to enter Quadrangle in the race. Paul Mellon's handsome colt has the look of a classic horse: at 16.1 hands and 1,100 lbs., he is one of the biggest three-year-olds in the U.S. And he has breeding to match: his sire, Cohoes, won stakes at two, three and four, and his dam, Tap Day, was a daughter of Calumet Farm's great Bull Lea. But in the Kentucky Derby, Quadrangle finished fifth behind Northern Dancer; in the Preakness, the best he could...
...Three. But try and tell that to the fans. On race day, 61,215 of them-biggest crowd in the Belmont's 96 years-were in the stands, and Northern Dancer, at 4 to 5, was clearly the people's choice. Why not? The Canadian-bred colt had won the Derby and Preakness with ease. The only thing against him was history. At H mi., the Belmont is the longest of the Triple Crown races, and in the 15 years since Citation, odds-on favorites have lost seven times. Two, like the Dancer, were trying for a triple...
...Overtrick: the $50,000 International Pace at New York's Yonkers Raceway, in 3 min., 3 4/5 sec., only 2/5 sec. off the world pacing record for 1½ miles. The victory squashed rumors that Overtrick had gone lame, added $25,000 to the big bay colt's lifetime earnings, which now amount...
What about Northern Dancer, E. P. Taylor's Canadian-bred colt that won the Derby? Lucky, they said. Too small, they said. On the day of the race, the New York Journal-American published its handicappers' selections, and only one out of twelve picked the Dancer to win. The Morning Telegraph was only slightly more encouraging: one out of eight. A well-known trainer went so far as to predict that Northern Dancer "won't even be on the board when the race is over...
...long shot, set the pace through the backstretch; Hill Rise was sixth, the Dancer seventh. Then Hartack glanced to his right, saw Shoemaker flick his reins to urge Hill Rise forward. That was the signal. Hartack clucked to Northern Dancer, and in one wonderful burst of speed, the little colt bolted past Hill Rise, past Mr. Brick, past everybody, and into the clear. Turning for home, the Dancer had a two-length lead...