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This year Secretariat has won four races out of five. At the 1⅛-mile Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in late April, he ran third, behind Angle Light and Sham. Nobody will ever be sure what went wrong that day. Turcotte is inclined to blame himself. Giving the horse his final speed work four days before the race, Turcotte sent him a mile in 1.42%. A fair workout for most horses-but a heavy eater like Secretariat needs to extend himself between races to keep in top condition, and it might have been better if they had gone faster...
...Belmont. Secretariat-along with Mrs. Tweedy, Laurin and Turcotte -is now ready for the ultimate test. Few three-year-olds will even dare take the track against him at Belmont but he will again have to face Sham, the horse that ran second in both the Derby and Preakness in efforts good enough to win in most years. There will also be a newcomer named Pvt. Smiles, which did not run in the first part of the Triple Crown but showed great promise of being a distance horse in last week's Jersey Derby...
Freshman would not build up hopes and expectations at the end of their first year, only to have these hopes shot down by a pointless quota system. And the stupid sham of House selectivity would be ended. Surely Harvard is a selective enough place already without having to make its students go through other processes of application, admission and rejection within the institution...
SATURDAY. The Preakness. The 98th running of jewel two of the Triple Crown from Pimlico Track in Baltimore. Md. I have 5 smackers and a mint julep riding on Derby-winner Secretariat to take the first Triple Crown since 1948. My bookie predicts strong challenges from Sham and Impecunious. CH.7. 5 p.m. Color. Live...
This weekend had been billed as a classic pitching duel featuring three of the finest staffs in the nation; the strike-out artists of Cornell, the Cadet hurlers with the lowest ERA nationally and the great depth of Harvard. But the Crimson easily made a sham of the Army and Cayugan defense as they tallied a total of 17 runs in three games...