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Belmont fire killed lot of untried horses ELMONT, N.Y. (AP) Anguished horse trainers mourned the loss of 45 thoroughbreds suffocated by an early morning fire at a Belmont Park Racetrack barn that left the animals looking “like they’re asleep,” a fire official said. A barn sprinkler system broke down late last week and was to be repairednby today, officials said. Track officials said the barn was worth $1 million and the horses were valued at up to $5 million. “I’m so sorry they had to go, and go that way,” Mike Daggett, a trainer who lost •eight horses, said Sunday as firefighters drenched the twisted ruins of the wooden structure destroyed by the fire. “I was so proud of my stable,” he said, struggling to keep back tears. “By being with them every day, every month, every year, you see them fulfilled at the racetrack by winning. That’s how they become a part of you. “Even if they finish fifth and try hard, you become attached to them,” he said. John P. Campo, trainer of 1981 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Pleasant Colony, lost 36 of his 38 horses in the fire. Me sat with his head in his hands, staring at the ground and refusing to answer questions. One of two rescued horses was Pleasant Sea, an offspring of Pleasant Colony, but four more horses that the champion sired were believed killed. “Terrible, terrible,” Campo said later. “There were some nice horses in there. You don’t know about most of them because they were basically untried.” Campo said only five or six of his horses had been insured. Robert Kern, 53, who lost three horses, including one he had purchased just hours before the fire, said “I’m just sick. I’m very upset and disturbed and brokenhearted.” Flames shot 50 feet into the air and a 100foot section of the 400-foot-long barn caved in before 200 firefighters could contain the blaze more than an hour after it was reported at 1:19 a.m. Sunday, said Elmont Fire Chief James Snadecky. Most of the horses were found in their 12foot by 12-foot stalls where they were tied up for the night. The dense, rolling smoke from the fire that started in the middle of the green barn felled the horses quickly and probably with little pain, Assistant Fire Chief John Loser said. “The ones at the end of the barn are lying there like they’re asleep,” Loser said. The fire in Barn 48 was first spotted by the barn’s night watchman, said John Keenan, vice president of operations for the New York Racing Association. “He attempted to go back in, but the heat and smoke were too bad,” Keenan said. Keenan said the sprinkler system’s pipes burst last week when the temperature fell to near zero and “would have been repaired today or tomorrow.” The horses were among more than 2,000 kept in 64 barns on the grounds.
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Smiths still unbeaten
By BARRY WILNER AP Sports Writer The North Carolina Tar Heels may be No. 1 in the hearts and minds of the voters in The Associated Press college basketball poll. In Milwaukee, though, they’re clearly not a favorite with Marquette fans. Carolina Coach Dean Smith and star guard Kenny Smith were hit in the head by thrown pennies while the undefeated Tar Heels were defeating the unranked Warriors 66-64 at the Milwaukee Arena. It was a distinctly different greeting than the Tar Heels received Saturday, when they opened the $33.8 million Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center with a 95-92 victory over third-ranked Duke. Smith hit two free throws with three seconds remaining to lift North Carolina to its 19th straight victory. He didn’t allow the crowd’s behavior to get to him. “I got hit in the side of the head after the first free throw,” said the 6-foot-3 junior guard. “It didn’t bother my next shot. You just have to go up there and concentrate. It’s just you and the basket.” Moments later, Coach Smith was conked by a coin. “I got hit by a penny at the end, and let
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No rest for Boilermakers
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Purdue is tied with Michigan for first place in the Big Ten Conference and ranked 19th in the nation, but Coach Gene Ready knows all that could change over the next three games, road contests at Indiana, Ohio State and Illinois. “This is really our toughest time coming up,” Ready said after the Boilermakers put away Wisconsin, 100-73, Sunday to match N 0.2 Michigan’s 5-1 record in the Big Ten. Purdue is 16-3 overall. “If we can survive it with a victory or two, we ought to be in great shape with five games in our last nine at home (where Purdue is undefeated). It’s going to be a great test for us if we’re going to finish in the upper division,” Ready said. Sophomore forward Todd Mitchell had 19 points to lead five Boilermakers scoring in double figures against Wisconsin. The Badgers grabbed a 5-2 lead in the opening minute before Purdue ran off a 216 spurt to make the score 23-11 with 9:24 remaining in the first half. Doug Lee contributed six points to the spurt, during which Wisconsin went 5V 2 minutes without afield goal. Wisconsin narrowed the lead to 25-17 before Purdue exploded for six more unanswered points to make it 31-17. The Badgers never threatened again and ended the half down 44-29. “We’re always happy with a win, especially a conference game,” Ready said.“ One of our goals is to be undefeated
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