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Sword Dancer GER
tainly deserved his victory. the
first Belmont ever won by Mrs.
Isabel Dodge sloane's Brook
meade Stable.
The son Of Sunglow-H High
land Fling was barely nosed out
by Tony Lee and Shoemaker
in a rough Kentucky Derby,
then finished second again in
the Preakness when Mrs. Ha-
lima Braunstein's Royal Orbit
ran a great race that he
couldn't duplicate in the Bel
mont.
Backed Down 10 SIS
Sword Dancer was backed
down to 8 to 5 today, largely
because of his smashing victory
over older horses in the one
mile Metropolitan Handicap
May 80. Royal Orbit, who lost
some prestige and many back
ers when he was third behind
Black Hills and Bagdad in last
weeks Peter Pan Handicap,
went off as second choice at
2 to in the Belmont. while
the Inflated Black Hills was a
To third choice.
Bagdad was backed down to
10 to / on the strength Of his
showing a week ago in the mile
and-an-eighth Peter Pan. But
few expected the son Of Double
Jay, who has done most Of his
racing on the West Coast. to
give Sword Dancer such a
tough struggle. Bagdad. ridden
by Bobby Ussery, took over the
lead from the firing Manassa
Mauler just about the time
Black Hills fell.
Royal Orbit Moves Up
For a few brief seconds, Bag
dad appeared to pull away q
bit, but Sword Dancer had dead
aim on him. The two speeding
colts quickly drew away from
the rest of the field.
Meanwhile, the heavy-eatine
Royal Orbit. who is supposed u
have an appetite like Henry
VIII and does away with &c
quarts of oats a day, was NOV
ing up rapidly from next tc
last place. Only North Pole II
was behind him during most
of the first mile. but he
started passing horses after
leaving the far furn.
Later Willie Harmatz. who
rode the Preakness winner, sale
he had to take up a bit to gel
around the spill. but added, 20
don't think we could have
beaten those first two horse:
anyway" Everybody who saw
the race, either at huge Bel
mont Park or on television, l.
likely to agree with Harmatz or
the latter statement.
Sword Dancer paid $3.50,
50 and $3.50 after running the
mile and one-half over a sloppy
track in 2:282s. Bagdad re-
turned S6 and $3.50, while the
tardy Royal Orbits show price
was $2.70.
HOmebred Wins S93,525
Mrs. Sloane, who bred the
little Belmont winner at her
Brookmeade Farm near Upper
vile, Va, will net $93,525 as a
result Of his victory. Bagdad's
second money was worth $780,
100. while Royal Orbit earned
$l4.550 for the comely Mrs.
Braunstein, a former television
singer.
Emil Dolce, the Long Island
restauranteur who owns Ma
nassa Mauler. also made a lit
tie money today-but not very
Dolce, who wasted Sl0,-
900 in making Manassa Maui
err a supplementary starter in
the Preakness, put up $4,000
earlier in the week to get his
Wood Memorial winner in the
Belmont. Since fourth money
was worth $7275, Dolce showed
a small profit anyhow.
The Belmont was run in hot,
weather over a track
made sloppy by heavy rains
that started last night and con-
tinued until mid-morning. The
outcome of this last Of the Tri-
pie Crown events certainly
bears out the contention of
Elliott Burch, Sword Dancers
36-year-old trainer, that his
colt likes this track much bet
ter than Pimlico. Possibly it's
Just the other way around with
Royal Orbit, who in two races
here has shown none of the