Found some old programs...

[keithting]

Comebacks of note: Our Mims (f.3) rallied in an allowance score

She was one of my favorite fillies of the 1970's - John Veitch & Darby Dan Farm

How about this for a race in my 35 cent program?

Oct 11, 1976 - Belmont Park - 8th Race The Man O' War

1 Trumpeter Swan 10-1
2 Banghi 20-1
3 Caucasus 3-1
4 American History 15-1
5 Erwin Boy 8-1
6 Effervescing 15-1
7 Kamaraan 2nd 6-1
8 Dahlia 4-1
9 Great Contractor 10-1
10 Recupere (G.B.) 20-1
11 L'Heureux 5-1
12 Crackle 20-1
13 Rouge Sang 20-1

I bet the #9 - I always played Roger Laurin's horses on the lawn, but

if I recall - Angel Cordero, Jr. "snuck by down on the hedge" to win the 18th running of the MOW at the wire with Effervescing, a 3-yr old colt for Odgen Phipps and J. W. Russell....

[blackthroatedwind]

Our Mims was Calumet.

Great Contractor is the only horse I have ever seen in the Belmont Stakes with a prior race at 1 1/2 miles. He ran on the turf at 1 1/2 at Hialeah, maybe the Bouganvilla, against olders in the Spring before coming close against Bold Forbes.

[blackthroatedwind]

I just looked Great Contractor up. He ran twice at 1 1/2 in Florida, once at Hialeah and once at Gulfstream. He also won the JCGC that Fall the first time it was run at 1 1/2 after being 2 miles in prior years ( Revidere was 3rd ). He buried Forego in the Suburban at 1 1/2 the following year by 11 lengths.

His second to last start was a third in the Exceller/Seattle Slew JCGC.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Our Mims was Calumet.

Great Contractor is the only horse I have ever seen in the Belmont Stakes with a prior race at 1 1/2 miles. He ran on the turf at 1 1/2 at Hialeah, maybe the Bouganvilla, against olders in the Spring before coming close against Bold Forbes.

Guadalcanal ran in the Belmont in 2008 also ran a mile and a half before the Belmont- in a MSW at CD two weeks before.

Oddly enough, he actually ran Sunday at Churchill at 11F...

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Our Mims was Calumet.

Great Contractor is the only horse I have ever seen in the Belmont Stakes with a prior race at 1 1/2 miles. He ran on the turf at 1 1/2 at Hialeah, maybe the Bouganvilla, against olders in the Spring before coming close against Bold Forbes.

I think Southern Sultan won at 1 1/2 miles in his start prior to the 1985 Belmont.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

I think Southern Sultan won at 1 1/2 miles in his start prior to the 1985 Belmont.

Wow. Very good. It was a maiden race at Delaware.