Word: middleground
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...Charles Howard's Irish-bred Noor, four-time conqueror of Citation and holder of three world records. Also at Belmont Park, Christopher Chenery's Hill Prince, under top weight in the 81st running of the Jerome Handicap, over a field that included King Ranch's Middleground, to clinch 1950'$ top three-year-old honors...
...past four months, two horses have stood out among the three-year-olds of 1950. Many horsemen insist that the Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner, Middleground, rates the edge. But Christopher Chenery's strapping Preakness winner, Hill Prince, probably has as many admirers...
Last week, at Chicago's Washington Park for the 40th running of the American Derby, Hill Prince made another bid for the title. Although Middleground was not among the nine horses which went to the barrier, the field was a strong one, including William Goetz's flashy, California-bred Your Host and Calumet Farm's entry of Theory and All Blue...
...Including Handicapper John Blanks Camp bell, racing secretary for the New York tracks who last week rated Hill Prince two pounds bet ter than Middleground in assigning weights fa a handicap at Aqueduct. This reversed his pre season rating of Middleground at 126 Ibs., Hil Prince at 124. *On the eve of the 1949 Kentucky Derby, which Calumet Trainer Ben Jones won with Ponder, a TIME correspondent asked Jones which of his two-year-olds he thought might be his best Derby prospect in 1950. Jones guessed that All Blue might be (TIME, May 30, 1949). Although he came around...
...Middleground's sire: Bold Ventura Kentucky Derby winner in 1936, who also sired the 1946 triple-crown winner, Assault...