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...even his royal name could help Kauai King win a Triple Crown last week. Owner Mike Ford must have figured that the Belmont might be too tough for his colt, because he didn't even bother to pay the $100 nominating fee. He changed his mind after Kauai King won last month's Derby and Preakness. By then, entries for the Belmont had closed, so Ford had to pay a penalty of $5,000 to get his horse into the race...
...bettors at New York's Aqueduct Race Track made Kauai King the odds-on favorite (at 3-5), invested a whopping $104,953 on him to show figuring that he could not possibly finish worse than third out of eleven horses. They would have been wiser to play the market. Kauai King took the lead on the backstretch, held it all the way around the final turn-but then, with exactly 1 mi. still to go, he seemed to run into a river of molasses. A 5-1 shot named Amberoid, who couldn't even...
...Kentucky Derby leading every step of the way. But Jockey Don Brumfield kept insisting that wasn't Kauai King's natural way of running. In winning seven of twelve previous races, the dark bay, three-year-old colt had come from behind every time. In the Preakness last week at Pimlico, under Brumfield's sure rein, Kauai King reverted to his old ways. The result was even more impressive than at Churchill Downs...
...turned out, the only horse in the nine-entry field that gave Kauai King a run was a 4-1 shot named Stupendous. It was quite a tussle while it lasted. Overtaking Kauai King's early lead, Stupendous surged ahead in the backstretch, at one point opened a four-length gap. Not until he entered the homestretch did Kauai King start to come on. Responding to the sting of Brumfield's bat, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, he finished with a fantastic burst that carried him to a 1¾-length victory. Time...
...yielded a purse of $129,000, raising Kauai King's earnings to $375,147, a fair return on Owner Mike Ford's original $42,000 investment. It also made Kauai King the early-line favorite to win next month's Belmont Stakes and become the first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948. "Racing needs a Triple Crown winner," said Jockey Brumfield. "I definitely know...