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...diving, Freshman Adriana Holy came through with a first place finish in the one meter competition, followed by Pam Stone, in second place. In the three meter event, B.U.'s Veronica Ribot, a finalist in last summer's Pan-American Games, topped Stone and Holy...
This year is something special. Nijinsky. named after the great dancer of the Czar's Royal Ballet, may be the best horse to run in the twentieth century. Like his namesake. Nijinsky has already established himself as one of the immortals of his time. Only the undefeated European horse Ribot and the unbelievable American star Man 'O War can be considered in Nijinsky's class...
Arts and Letters became the three year old champion by default, not a very thrilling proposition. This chestnut son of Ribot is an honest and willing horse who does not step on is pedigree going a distance, but he does not as yet have any great box office as he as yet to do anything amazing against the clock...
Arts and Letters, a late developing three-year-old, has been trained by a master. Eliot Burch has trained other Belmont Stakes winners (Sword Dancer, Quadrangle), and probably has another in the small but long-striding son of the undefeated Ribot. Bred for the classic mile-and-a-half distance, this horse will finally have a chance to show his class on the long backstretch at Belmont. There will be no tight turns to prevent this horse from reaching his best stride. He should win convincingly. 50 per cent chance...
...Sired by Ribot and foaled by Galbreath's stakes-winning mare Flower Bowl, Graustark was a big (16 hands), rangy colt bred for endurance rather than speed. But at Illinois' Arlington Park last summer, he showed all kinds of speed-winning a six-furlong maiden race by seven lengths, an allowance sprint by nine, the $54,600 Arch Ward Stakes by six. Then he bucked his shins and retired for the year. "Sometimes," sighed Galbreath, "these things work out for the best...