By late summer, at least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only onceand that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides...
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