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	AUGUST BELMONT - LoveToKnow Article on AUGUST BELMONT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His son, PERRY BELMONT (1851), was born in New York on the 28th of December 1851, graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Columbia Law School in 1876, and practised law in New York for five years.
		Another son, AUGUST BELMONT (1853), was born in New York on tile 18th of February 1853 and graduated at Harvard in 1875.
		A volume entitled Letters, Speeches and Addresses of August Belmont (the elder) was published at New York in 1890.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BELMONT_AUGUST.htm (400 words)

	August Belmont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He energetically supported the Union cause during the Civil War, and exerted a strong influence in favour of the North upon the merchants and financiers of England and France.
		An avid sportsman, the famed Belmont Stakes thoroughbred horse race is named in his honor.
		He died in New York in 1890 and a volume entitled Letters, Speeches and Addresses of August Belmont (the elder) was published at New York in 1890.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_Belmont (254 words)

	History - History Of Belcourt Castle - Biography of August Belmont
		August Belmont was born in Alzey, Rhenish Prussia on the 8th of December 1813, a son of a prominent Jewish businessman, learned student of law and government, and President of the Synagogue, Simon Belmont, and Frederika Elsass.
		At the height of August Belmont's social supremacy, and inestimable political influence, their daughter, Jane Pauline (Jeannie), became severely ill. During the time of her progressive illness, August's political and business relationships became stormy - the lavish entertaining was curtailed and finally stopped, as Jeannie died at the age of 19 on October 15, 1875.
		Caroline and August Belmont were opera lovers, and August was president of the Academy of Music, which refused to make a box available to the nouveau riche Vanderbilt family, who then built the Metropolitan Opera for their own social set.
	www.belcourtcastle.com /history/august_belmont.html (1337 words)

	August Belmont, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The younger August Belmont was an 1875 graduate of Harvard University, where, as a sprinter, he supposedly introduced spiked track shoes to the United States.
		Belmont also raised polo ponies and played on a polo team with Harry Payne Whitney.
		Following the United States' entry into World War I, Belmont, at age 65, volunteered to assist and was sent to France by the U.S. Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_Belmont,_Jr. (294 words)

	Equine Heroes: Man O'War
		August Belmont II, from the aristocratic, racing family of Belmonts (Belmont Park and the Belmont Stakes, originated at Jerome Park in New York, were named for his father), was in New York at the time.
		Belmont, now in his sixties, normally would have been deeply absorbed in the affairs of his beloved Nursery Stud, but he had become heavily involved in the United States efforts in what was then known as the Great World War.
		Belmont had already named the colt in her husband's absence prior to the yearling sale, the son of Mahubah was in his early months of training called simply, "Mahubah's colt," Feustel said.
	www.equinenet.org /heroes/mow.html (1753 words)

	HarpWeek \| Elections \| 1864 Biographies
		ugust Belmont, Sr., financier and Democratic party administrator, was born in Alzey, Germany, to Frederika Elsass Belmont and Simon Belmont, a landowner and moneylender.
		Belmont was extremely successful, prospering in diverse financial ventures and serving as the fiscal agent for the federal government during the Mexican War (1846-1848).
		Belmont continued to be active in social affairs and financial endeavors, becoming one of the richest men in America.
	elections.harpweek.com /1864/bio-1864-Full.asp?UniqueID=3&Year=1864 (598 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: Stations - Belmont
		Belmont was built as part of the original main line of the Northwestern Elevated in 1900.
		Apparently, from 1953 until the end of North Shore service, Belmont actually had three platforms: there was an additional very narrow North Shore interurban exit-only platform built along the west side of the "L" structure, extending from the south side of Belmont Avenue to a point somewhat north of the ends of the center platforms.
		A lot of activity late night at Belmont: A work train of 2400-series cars with a flatbed car in the middle is on Track 1 while a southbound Red Line train is approaching on Track 2 during owl hours on January 28, 2005.
	www.chicago-l.org /stations/belmont.html (1551 words)

	ESPN.com - Triple Crown 2002 - Traditions of the Belmont Stakes
		The Belmont is the oldest of the Triple Crown events, predating the Preakness by six years and the Kentucky Derby by eight.
		The Belmont is the last test to claim a jewel in the triple crown.
		August Belmont, a famous financier, was the original founder of organized races in the New York area.
	espn.go.com /horse/TripleCrown02/s/Belmonttraditions.html (437 words)

	History - History Of Belcourt Castle - Biography of August Belmont II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		August Belmont II Second child of August and Caroline Belmont, August Belmont II was born in 1852, and spent his first four years at the Hague.
		He was the banker following in his father's footsteps, but less conservative and more philanthropic than the Senior Belmont, he invested in the Cape Cod Canal, and the New York Subway system, which diminished his fortune by tens of millions of dollars.
		Eleanor Belmont died at the age of 100 in 1960, and had owned Belcourt in the 1930s.
	www.belcourtcastle.com /history/august_belmont2.html (190 words)

	10:0604(102)CA - Navy, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, NH and Federal Employees MTC -- 1982 FLRAdec CA
		On August 2, 1979, Bergeron again reported to Belmont that Sargent was not performing work assigned, that he had taken excessive time for lunch, and that he was found laying down on the deck.
		Belmont inquired whether Sargent had reported to Moorenovich as instructed the previous day, and Sargent explained that he reported to the Union instead as "it was too late" in the day to report for work.
		Belmont learned of Sargent's failure to report on August 15, 1979, and thereafter early in the morning on August 16, 1979, Belmont made a second decision to terminate Sargent.
	www.flra.gov /decisions/v10/10-102-3.html (8402 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The King of Fifth Avenue, by David Black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		...Each guest was at- tended by his or her own footman, who was dressed in maroon and scarlet Belmont livery and who soundlessly presented dishes and cleared away the empty plates as skillfully as a magician palming large gold coins...
		...During his lifetime, Belmont was credited with having "taught New Yorkers how to eat, how to drink, how to dress, how to drive four-in-hands, how to furnish their houses, [and] how to live generally according to the rules of the possibly somewhat effete but unquestionably refined society of the Old World...
		[Belmont] married out of the faith many years ago, is not connected with a Jewish congregation, and is universally repudiated as a Jew...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V73I4P85-1.htm (1820 words)

	Thoroughbred Times Weekly Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was August Belmont II who established Belmont Park as the center of New York racing and the Belmont Stakes as a classic American racing event.
		Shortly after August Belmont I transferred his breeding operation from Long Island to Nursery Stud in Kentucky, he purchased the highly bred English mare *Bella Donna, by Hermit, and imported her in 1888, in foal to Uncas.
		August Belmont II purchased *Bella Donna for $8,800 at his father’s record-setting dispersal in 1891, and she produced a great filly for him in Beldame, by Octagon (for whom the Grade 1 stakes is named), as well as four other stakes winners.
	www.thoroughbredtimes.com /thisweek/weekview.asp?recno=22856 (2519 words)

	The Kentucky Derby: The Belmont Stakes
		The Belmont Stakes, however, are named after August Belmont, a financier who made quite a name and fortune for himself in New York politics and society.
		Belmont was also quite involved in horse racing, and his imprint is even intertwined within the history of the Kentucky Derby (see both The Move to Louisville and Derby Growing Pains).
		The largest field for the Belmont Stakes was 15 in 1983 and the smallest was two in 1887, 1888, 1892, 1910 and 1920.
	www.derbypost.com /belmont.html (1746 words)

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		Regarded as the "Test of the Champion," the Belmont Stakes is run on the grand one and a half mile main track at Belmont Park.
		The namesake of the race, August Belmont, was dubbed the "King of Fifth Avenue." Using his lofty social standing and tremendous wealth he supported the rise of thoroughbred racing in New York.
		Belmont Park has been the host of some of the most thrilling moments in sports history including Secretariat's overwhelming victory to complete the Triple Crown in 1973.
	www.nyc.gov /html/sports/html/belmont_history.html (224 words)

	August Belmont
		BELMONT, August financier, born in Alzey, Germany, in 1816, where his father was a landed proprietor.
		Belmont has taken much interest in politics; he was a delegate to the democratic convention of 1860, and from that year until 1872 was the chairman of the national democratic committee.
		Belmont was appointed chairman of the committee on foreign affairs in 1885.
	www.famousamericans.net /augustbelmont (608 words)

	NYRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The August Belmont Memorial Cup trophy goes back to 1869 when it was first won by August Belmont's Fenian and later presented by the Belmont family for its present use.
		The first running of the Belmont Stakes was at Jerome Park at a distance of 1 5/8 miles on Thursday, June 19, 1967.
		Six Belmont Stakes winners were bred in England, two in Ireland and 1998 Belmont winner Victory Gallop was bred in Canada.
	www.nyra.com /belstakes2002 (752 words)

	August Belmont Biography / Biography of August Belmont Biography
		August Belmont (1816-1890), for whom the prestigious Belmont Stakes thoroughbred racing cup is named, was one of the influential bankers who helped define America's Gilded Age.
		In addition to heading a Wall Street firm that bore his name, Belmont served various Democratic administrations as a diplomat, amassed an impressive art collection, and was a key figure in establishing thoroughbred racing as a sport in the United States.
		Known for his penchant toward lavish entertaining, Belmont was said to have been the inspiration for a character in Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, The Age of Innocence.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-august-belmont (233 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		Belmont was born in 1858 to a wealthy New York family.
		His father, August Belmont, was a financier and diplomat who served as American minister to the Netherlands and consul to Austria.
		Belmont was a New York congressman from 1901 to 1903.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/davis/newport/biographies/belmont.html (335 words)

	The Met Opera Guild
		Belmont devoted her time to raising funds for Belgian Relief and for the Red Cross, making several trans-Atlantic trips as a Red Cross inspector of U.S. Army camps.
		Belmont founded the Metropolitan Opera National Council, whose members were to be available to the opera company's board for advice and consultation and to be another source of financial support for the Met, specifically to fund new productions.
		Belmont's suggestion, the National Council took over what had been the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air, extending the life of this important program that continues to this day to find and nurture young talent.
	www.metoperafamily.org /guild/about/belmont.aspx (484 words)

	Encyclopedia: August Belmont, Sr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was named the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee the same year in Baltimore, and held this position until his death in 1872.
		An avid sportsman, the famed Belmont Stakes thoroughbred horse race is named for him.
		One of his sons was August Belmont, Jr.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/August-Belmont,-Sr. (222 words)

	Fair Play
		Breeder August Belmont II purchased Fair Play's sire, Hastings, and dam, Fairy Gold, both of which became pillars of Belmont's* breeding program at Nursery Stud in Kentucky.
		Belmont purchased *Fairy Gold in the summer of 1903 for 3,600 guineas and brought her to Kentucky that same year.
		Man o'War, who had been bred by Belmont but sold as a yearling to Samuel Riddle, was one of 5 Belmont Stakes winners created by his breeder, and 2 of those were sired by Fair Play (the other was Chance Shot, in 1927), whose offspring got better with age and distance.
	www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/FairPlay.html (2665 words)

	Cape Cod Canal, Canal Story, Army Corps of Engineers, US Army
		Belmont's company actually started work in May of 1909 when the first schooners arrived from Maine with granite for construction of a breakwater.
		Belmont had achieved his objective of opening the Cape Cod Canal before the Panama Canal, which opened on August 15, 1914, seventeen days later.
		Belmont hoped that once the charter depth was achieved, more tug and barge traffic would find the Canal an attractive route.
	www.nae.usace.army.mil /recreati/ccc/history/canalstory.htm (1790 words)

	pot luck - Belmont
		The Belmont Stakes is the oldest, continuously run, race in North America.
		In a poll conducted by the Associated Press in 1950, he was voted as the greatest horse in the first half of the twentieth century.
		Through 1996, the traditional song for the Belmont was "Sidewalks of New York" and played as the horses made their way to the starting gate.
	tsr.craftwerks.com /potluck/000605.html (774 words)

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		August Schonberg (Belmont) went to Frankfurt at the age of thirteen to work as an unpaid apprentice for the Rothschilds, the leading Jewish banking house in Europe.
		Belmont was soon provided with investments in tobacco farms in Cuba.The first conspiracies in Cuba from 1823 to 1868 were organized by tobacco traders.
		Belmont (married to Caroline Slidel) in his short stay in the country got to be the President of the Democrat Party and he and his relative in- law Slidel of Louisiana were the ones who disturbed the Convention so the war could follow its course.
	www.newsmakingnews.com /lmsinkingsun.htm (4331 words)

	Belmont Club: August 2003
		The Belmont Club argued in Replaying the Tet that Islamic terrorism's shift towards "soft targets" in the face of the relative invincibility of United States forces would unleash a tidal wave of hatred upon the innocent bystanders of the world which would swamp the Left's apologia of Muslim extremism.
		The biggest sleeper item was the August 21 press conference by Secretary Rumsfeld and General Abizaid at the Department of Defense.
		The Belmont Club's informal analysis is that about 60 perps are killed or captured each day, based on a sample of operations and known operational tempo.
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2003_08_01_belmontclub_archive.html (15015 words)

	August Belmont jr inherits A. Belmont & Co
		August Belmont jr - heir of August Belmont and Co
		As a banker, August Belmont jr hardly outdid his father and was far from being an outstanding figure in Wall Street, except maybe for his wealth, which passively grew with each operation, others brokered for him.
		Belmont jr thus sought another activity in which he could profile himself as a leading capitalist of his country.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/bankers_gilded_age/Belmont_7.asp (183 words)

	The Belmont Club: August 2005
		Some Belmont Club readers have repeatedly written to ask why Secretary Rumsfeld would be at pains to downplay Iranian intervention in Iraq -- both before and after Operation Iraqi Freedom -- when these revelations would serve to strengthen the linkage between terrorism and it's state sponsors, a connection whose existence has been repeatedly denied.
		He said he learned later that lawyers associated with the Special Operations Command of the Defense Department had canceled the F.B.I. meetings because they feared controversy if Able Danger was portrayed as a military operation that had violated the privacy of civilians who were legally in the United States.
		Belmont Club readers may also wish to read the US Army War College's recent monograph, Law versus War, whose subject is described as follows:
	fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_fallbackbelmont_archive.html (14278 words)

	Thoroughbred Times On-Line - Road to the Triple Crown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The oldest of America's three Triple Crown races, the Belmont Stakes was first run on June 19, 1867, at the Jerome Park race course, an oddly shaped, English-style track that required its runners to negotiate three turns instead of two because of a dip in the middle of the backstretch.
		The Belmont was even longer in its early days, contested at 1-5/8 miles through 1873.
		The 1926 Belmont was run at 1-1/2 miles and was won by Crusader, a son of the legendary Man o' War, in a time of 2:32-1/5.
	www.thoroughbredtimes.com /tc/races?sortby=breeder&races=3 (248 words)

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