Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Belmont Park race track, a sprawling oasis of green and gentle silence just half an hour from Times Square, has been Seattle Slew's home since he was broken, and its winners circle is familiar ground. There he won the first race he entered, a six-furlong sprint. His dazzling 9¾-length victory in the Champagne Stakes last fall-bettering Secretariat's time in the premier race for two-year-olds-earned him the Eclipse Award as the season's best juvenile colt. From a barn on the Belmont backside, he trained for his victories...
...field men was striking, the running events suffered from a conspicuous lack of Crimson talent. Due to the various exigencies of injuries and academic ocnflicts, such Harvard top guns as Jeff Campbell, Todd Hooks, Paul Organ, and Gary Schmidt were absent from the meet. The lack of a Harvard sprint relay team was an unfortunate result...
...loss was Radcliffe's first regular season defeat in four and a half years, and only their second in history. In the interim, they have lost only two Sprint titles...
...undefeated J.V., solid sprint victors a week ago, should have an easier time with the Elis. "They just don't have a great deal of depth this year," Raymond said...
Eliot passed Kirkland in the last sprint again to take third. A fast-finishing Leverett crew finished fifth...