Word: noor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belmont Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's lightly weighted One Hitter, twice in one week, over Mrs. 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...
...racing fans who jammed Santa Anita last week for the $50,000-added San Juan Capistrano Handicap still had faith in Citation. Calumet's scuffed-up wonder horse was being sent to the post carrying 130 Ibs.-two pounds less than the week before when Irish-bred Noor beat him in the Santa Anita Handicap. This time Noor was carrying seven more pounds-117. And the Capistrano, at the unusual distance of a mile and three quarters, was certainly long enough for a test of class...
Both horses ran easily as the field broke into the din at the start: Citation just off the pace, Noor far back in the ruck. The real battle started at the mile and a half. Citation moved into the lead with a rush and Noor, skirting the flying ribbon of color on the rail, came up from behind and closed for the final duel. Noor was first as they headed for home. Then Citation came up again; for second after aching second, they ran shoulder to shoulder, wild and even as a runaway team, while the stands and infield erupted...
They raced under the wire as one. An unreal silence fell. Finally the photofinish camera revealed the truth: Noor had beaten Citation again, by the thinnest fraction of a nose. The time: 2:52 4/5, a new American record for the mile and three quarters...
...silver-haired Owner Charles S. Howard, who bought the horse on a tip from Prince Aly Khan, Noor's victory was worth $97,900. It was the third time in 13 runnings of the big race that Howard had taken the grand prize; in 1939 he won with an Argentine horse named Kayak II, in 1940 with Seabiscuit...