Sport: How Fleet?

At Long Island's Belmont Park, Count Fleet romped off with the Belmont Stakes for a clean sweep of America's five spring specials for three-year-olds. Just as in the Wood Memorial, Derby, Preakness and Withers, there was no one to press the colt that started his racing career last summer as the fastest two-year-old of all time.

The Count has already won 16 races, earned $250,300, made a runaway farce of top 1943 three-year-old events. The final test of ability will come when he is entered in races against older horses like Whirlaway, Alsab, Market...

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