Test of the Champion: The Story of the Belmont Dynasty
Litchfield County Country Capitalist Magazine|Issue 60

Test of the Champion: The Story of the Belmont Dynasty.

Carly Silver
Test of the Champion: The Story of the Belmont Dynasty

The grand old names of American Thoroughbred horse racing—Whitney, Phipps, DuPont, Mellon, and Widener—exude images of industry tycoons and lineages traceable to the Mayflower. But several of the most important equestrians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries hailed from a clan far more blue-collar than blue-blooded. Meet the family Belmont, namesakes of Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, as well as the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel of the Triple Crown. The 149th running of the “Test of the Champion,” as the 1 ½-mile contest has been dubbed, takes place on June 10, 2017.

The Belmonts’ origin story traces back more than 200 years, to the German town of Alzey. There, Simon Schönberg, a prominent Jewish citizen, and his wife, Fredericka, had a young child named August. Some sources claim their last name was Balmain, which was later Anglicized into “Belmont,” but “Schönberg” and “Belmont” both translate to “beautiful mountain” in English. Historian Bernard Livingston recounted in Their Turf: America’s Horsey Set and Its Princely Dynasties that August Belmont I began his career in finance essentially as an unpaid intern. At age fifteen, he started by sweeping the floors and taking out the trash for free at the banking house of the famed Rothschild clan, allegedly his distant cousins.

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The Fall of SAC Capital.

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Brain Fitness - It’s All In Your Mind

Frozen in mid-sentence, you forget a name. With your pen poised over a check, you cannot recall the date. You’ve gone into the kitchen, but you can no longer remember what for. And where is that damned cell phone? Are you one of the worried well? Many of us are anxious to live a long life, but fearful of our potential for the humiliation and debilitation of dementia. What to do? Should you try a computer game? Magnesium tablets? A week at an expensive brain training center? Brain fitness is the new buzzword and wealthy aging baby boomers are eager to buy a healthier brain.

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Our Little Racket

Our Little Racket.

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Test of the Champion: The Story of the Belmont Dynasty

Test of the Champion: The Story of the Belmont Dynasty.

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Statue Of Limitations

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Hamptons International Film Festival’s Silver Anniversary

Hamptons International Film Festival's Silver Anniversary.

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I remember mah jong through a haze of memory and my mother’s Benson & Hedges cigarette smoke.

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