European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Happiness monday june 13, 1977 the stars and stripes Pago 21 that s Why slew s jockey saluted crowd near the wire by Steve Cady new York not once upon a time an Ordinary looking horse was sold at Public auction in Kentucky for the very Ordinary Price of $17,900. His owners named him Seattle slew dreamed of triple Crown glory and crossed their fingers. And on saturday the impassible dream came True when their horse became thoroughbred racing s first undefeated triple Crown Champion. He did u at Belmont Park before a near record crowd of 70,229, and he did it easily As a 2-5 favorite who returned $2.80 f6r $2.00 re lated Stop on Page 25. Al the finish of the on and one half mile test a the Champion Seattle slew was coasting along four lengths ahead of second place run Dusty run the honest rival who finished Secona to him in the Kentucky Derby five weeks ago and third Back of him in the Preakness three weeks ago. And while slew was coasting Home on a Muddy track his French jockey Jean Cru Guel. A is standing up in the stirrups 20 Yards before the wire. With his right hand holding the whip he never had to use to any serious extent Cruguet was waving a Salute to the second largest crowd in Bel Mont s history. Sanhedrin the stretch running challenger who had been expected to give Seattle slew trouble at the longer Belmont Dis Tance never threatened seriously. He wound up third in the Field of eight 3-year-old Colts two lengths Back of run Dusty run and two and one Quarter lengths ahead of or. Red Wing. Then came Iron Constitution spirit level sir sir and make amends. Seattle slew s ninth and most significant Triumph indicated the Campaign strategy of his Trainer Billy Turner and his owners a Syndicate consisting of Karen Taylor and her husband Mickey of White Swan wash., and Jim and Sally Hill of Garden City . They were patient wait ing until last sept. 20 before sending their bargain basement Colt into his first race and the patience paid off As Seattle slew became not Only the 10th triple Crown Winner but the first  h an unblemished record. There was vindication Tooi for Cruguet criticized earlier this year for letting slew run too fast in the Flamingo stakes and for previous alleged inadequacies. But Cru Guet had the last laugh a urday taking both the Belmont and the �5.800 Mother Goose stakes during a four Winner after noon. Why had the jockey saluted the crowd Ashe coasted Down toward the wire it was the second largest crowd that Ever saw the Belmont stakes 70.229 immortal souls who Tore their pants shoving $6,496,117 through the Mutual wickets. Happiness Cruguet said just  what can i say Billy Turner said when the Trainer was asked about Seattle slew s Belmont he runs the same race every  he meant the Colt wins every time and that is All the Trainer asks. Actually every one of his races differs from the last. Where he has shown devastating Speed in the past he took his time with this Job obediently cooperating with the rider trying to conserve him for a mile and a  result was a comparatively slow trip Over a bridle path drenched by 36 hours of  knew up front Billy Turner said that this was t a track for record break ing and this in t a record breaking horse. He docs what he has to do. If something presses him it s like his first race this year when he destroyed the track records but it s hard to find a horse to press  of his old rivals and one who had never hooked him before tried pressing him in the Belmont. A newcomer named spirit level went after the favorite right after the Start ran with him to the far turn f ? 15 f ? " 5 sports jockey Jean Cruguet Waves near finish line. Seattle slew is easy Winner of Belmont stakes Moses bests hurdles Mark  Angeles up olympic Champion Edwin Moses of Atlanta s More House College skimmed to a world record of 47.45 seconds saturday in winning the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at the National aau track and Field Champion ships jubilantly breaking his own old Mark. Moses 21, who claims he has t received adequate recognition since setting the old Standard of 47.64 at the Montreal olympics last year took a Victory la during which he threw buttons with a Pic Ture of himself to cheering  four hours later Dwight stones won the High jump at 7-6 i. With Franklin Jacobs of Teaneck n.j., runner up at 7-5v. Stones holds the world Mark of 7-7 /4.by the time stones put on his show the crowd of 10.692 at Urcla s Drake stadium had thinned to about 2.500. Moses obliterated his old hurdles Mark in the first men s event on the final Day of the three Day meet. He was beaten to the first hurdle by Rick Walker but that was All. By the Halfway Point he was far in front and it was Only a question of whether he would set a world  was my Best  said the straight a physics engineering student. It was the Best race i be Ever run. I Haven t been training As hard As i did for Montreal. I think i can go faster because i m not in the shape i was last year and look what i did. I m More experienced now. I think i can break 47  Champion Tom Andrews of University of Southern California was a Dis transsexual Netter fails chromosome test Cleveland up Renee Richards the transsexual Tennis player signed by the Cleveland nets to play world team Tennis failed the first of two chromosome tests taken to determine whether she can compete in wet As a woman it was re ported saturday by the Cleveland press. However the press said another test has been  nets had planned to have Richards play women s singles and doubles but was ordered by wet commissioner Butch Buckholtz to keep Richards out of wet Competition until results of the Chromo some tests were validated. Tant second in 49.03 seconds while olympian Quenlin Wheeler who was fourth at Montreal finished seventh in 50 Flat. The 6-foot-i, 160-Pound Moses accounted for the second world record of the meet. On thursday Peg Neppel an Iowa state Grad uate student set a world Mark in the women s 10,000-meter run. In other outstanding saturday performances Jamaica s Don quame the olympic 200-meter Champion won the 100 meters with the fastest time in the world this year 10.12 seconds. He skipped the aau 200 meters because he wanted to take part in commencement exercises thursday at University of Southern California where he received his master s degree. America s new mile sensation Steve Scott. 20-year-old University of California Irvine Junior beat Kenya s Wilson Waiswa and Mike Slack to the tape in a thrilling 1,500-meter finish in 3 37 3. Scott avenged a defeat by Waiswa in last weekend s Mcaa meet. Frank Shorter a Marathon Winner at the Munich olympics five years ago and a continued on Page i and chucked it finishing sixth in the eight horse Field. Run Dusty run ranged up alongside spirit level and Seattle slew turning into the Backstretch. But the Winner went along on his untroubled Way. Run Dusty run is always close. He can t run with slew but he ran  Factor As a Rule no horse that comes to the Bel Mont has Ever tried the Belmont distance of a mile and a half and there Are always doubts about a Steed s ability to stay that far until he does it. Before this race As a voice in the Jock s room was saying. It s another Quarter mile. He has to go a Quarter mile  yes said Joe Imperato who had no Belmont mounts another Quarter mile to look at his rear  in Seattle slew s proudest moments though the dark Brown Kentucky bred Colt had t convinced All his detractors. Some of them were pointing out that the time of 2 29 and three fifths even considering the off track was. A full 5 and three fifths seconds slower than the track record clocking made by secretariat in that Colt s 31-Lcngth Belmont Triumph which earned him the ninth triple Cronin 1973. Seattle slew s Belmont in the slowest since pass Catcher in 1971.but Cruguet had said before saturday s race if a jockey in Europe wins by More than three or four lengths he s considered a bad rider. You have to think of the Handi Cap races where lengths mean extra  10 minutes late there were questions raised too about Seattle slew s late arrival in the  regular route had apparently been blocked by cars and he arrived 10 minutes late forcing a delay of five minutes in the Post time. But he was i late at the finish  s vindication May have been the sweetest of All because he got a kiss on the Cheek from rotund Johnny Campo the Trainer who was quoted in a National mag Azine earlier this year As saying two minutes is a Long time for the Frenchman to go without making a mistake Campo saddled Elmendorf s Road Prin Cess the 424o-1 Long shot Ridden to Victory by Cruguet in the Mother Goose stakes second part of the new York racing association s triple Crown series for 3-Ycar-old fillies at a payoff of $86.40. That was two races before the Belmont. And Campo leaned across the presentation table to. Show his gratitude to the  also won the first and last races on the card on a big Day of seven trips to the Post. The purses earned by his winners totalled $173.760. Which translates into $17, 300 for Cruguet As his 10 per cent Cut of the loot. The whole Stoyas for the Belmont Cruguet explained it perfectly when he said. Relaxation was the whole Story. I knew if i could make him relax i d have no  Seattle slew is a great grandson of the late bold ruler and descendants of that fabled sire have often had trouble relaxing they weren t in a Clear Lead. Their Ocao Strong desire to run and run fast some times has drawn them into suicidal Early Speed duels. And that kind of Duel is not de signed to produce Belmont winners at a mile and a half. But front running Seattle slew though he was in front every step of the Way. Relaxed better than in any of his previous races. The Clew to this Belmont came Early As first spirit level and then run Dusty run went up almost head to head with the Leader. They were both still there after a mile. But the fractional times by them had told most knowledgeable viewers that the race was Over. Seattle slew under a hard hold had gone the first Quarter in 24 and three fifths the half in 48 and two fifths six furlongs in 1 14 and a mile in1 38 and four fifths. That is about As slow As racing s newest Equine celebrity can be conned into going. Predictably he ran away from everything in the last half mile