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Since then he has beaten America's best handicap horse, Nodouble, in the Metropolitan Mile, America's best three year old. Majestie Prince, in the Belmont Stakes, and subsequently won the Jim Dandy Stakes by ten lengths and the Travers by six and a half lengths. There is no horse...
Arts And Letters won the one hundredth running of the Travers Stakes by himself. He beat Claibvorne Farm's Dike, the second finisher, by six and a half lengths. The weight handicappers could take little solace in the fact. In the Belmont at a mile and a half Dike had...
A conversation with noted racing writer Mel Heimer two days before the event garnered several opinions. First--Arts And Letters came closer to being a great horse with greater distance. Second--should this game chestnut be upset in the Travers, the defeat would rank with the loss of Gallant Fox...
If the track is fast and the skies clear I am sure that I shall see him in the clubhouse at Saratoga waiting to bet on Arts and Letters in the Travers. It should prove to be a delightful and profitable afternoon.
When musing on the result, I can only think of the Travers of two years ago. Damascus won by twenty-two lengths in the slop and tied the track record.