Grandson Of Belmont Park Founder Dies

Daily News Wire Services
Posted: July 13, 1995

August Belmont IV, grandson of the founder of Belmont Park, is dead at the age of 86.

He died Monday in Easton, Md., following a massive stroke, the New York Racing Association said.

Among Belmont's stakes winners were Dew Line, Heed, Quadratic and Caveat, who won the 1983 Belmont Stakes, named after his great grandfather, the first August Belmont.

Belmont IV was a member and former chairman of The Jockey Club, an honorary trustee of Presbyterian Hospital in New York, a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, and a member and former chairman of the American Kennel Club.

Belmont's grandfather, August Belmont II, formed the Westchester Racing Association in 1895 and oversaw construction of Belmont Park, which opened May 4, 1905. Belmont II also bred the famed Man O' War.

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FINKELSON: DEAD AT 71

Allen J. Finkelson, longtime harness racing publicist, died early yesterday in Pompano Beach, Fla., of cancer. He was 71. A native of Spring Valley, N.J., Finkelson became publicist for Monticello Raceway at Monticello, N.Y., in 1959. In 1976, he joined Pompano Harness track.

DUCHOSSOIS: RECOVERING

Arlington International Racecourse owner Richard Duchossois was resting comfortably in a Chicago hospital after heart bypass surgery, a track spokesman said.

Duchossois, 73, has been a proponent of riverboat gambling, and in December he threatened to close his racetrack for this season before a compromise with other Illinois racetrack owners led him to reconsider.

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