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HYDE, Md. -- Pompoon, juvenile champion of American in 1936 and runner-up to War Admiral in most of the big three-year-old stakes of 1937, died suddenly today under unexplained circumstances...
...Five-year-old Snark: the 52nd running of the historic mile-and-a-quarter Suburban Handicap; by a nose, over Jerome Louchheim's four-year-old Pompoon; in 2 min., 1 2/5 sec., fastest undisputed time in the history of the race; at Belmont Park. Disgruntled was the crowd of 25,000 who had gone to the track hoping to see Samuel Riddle's famed War Admiral run against his old rival, Pompoon, as a substitute for the widely publicized $100,000 Memorial Day race with Seabiscuit, which had been called off earlier in the week because...
...Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit, but Maxwell Howard's young Stagehand, winner of the Santa Anita Derby the week before (TIME, March 7). Nelson Howard's entry, a long shot among the 18 contestants, finished fourth, two lengths behind Jerry Louchheim's highly touted Pompoon. But Seabiscuit, although he had lost the $91,450 first prize by a nose in a camera finish, had lost little of his prestige. Carrying 30 lb. more than the winner and forcing him to a track record, beaten Seabiscuit seemed to many fans the best horse in the race...
...Samuel D. Riddle's three-year-old race horse War Admiral, ridden by seasoned Jockey Charley Kurtsinger: the 47th Preakness Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
After the race was over. Kurtsinger said: "There was nothing to it." This was an exaggeration but after the first turn, there was never a moment when it looked as though War Admiral might lose. Coming into the stretch, Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon challenged him for the lead. Jockey Kurtsinger touched War Admiral once with his whip and drew away. At the end of the race. War Admiral was going easily, almost two lengths ahead. Pompoon was second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field...