Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-23
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/ FRANCIS sTANN

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-It high time boxing folks
thinking that Rocky Marciano and the IBC got around
giving Archie opportunity Now racing people
thinking is appropriate that Nashua be given his
chance to compete in the upper echeon which the great
Belair 3year-od will do tomorrow In the added
Sysonby at Belmont Park.
The match between Nashua and Swaps in Chicago
spectacle but this another there those
who insist the 10th running of the Sysonby should
the of the decade If higher 1t difficult remem-
Der when four horses of such cber Nashua High Gun
Heoscope and Jet Action the strip at the
same time
These-the Big Four"-are the best At horses in the
country bar none and the Sysonby may well determine
American champion especially It's Nashua whose
hits the wire first at the end Of the mile and eighth
NTH horse Jack Amiels Mr. Turf entered today, but
he hardly figures with the top four.
Nashua is like Marciano in the sense that he has run
out of opposition in his division and must look
where Except that whereas Rocky dropped down to take
the lightheavy ruler Nashua is moving up against the
heayyweights Of racing
THE SYSoNBY, IN CASE anybody came in late is named
after of the ame great American horses winner of II
of his Is Many knowledgeable graybeard win
there Sysonby 1904
and 1905 not even Man o. War; After he died Of infec
ton contracted from groom, his bones mounted
placed in the Museum Natural History.
where they may be seen today.
It il a weight-for-age and, because he is only
3-yearold Nashua will carry 12 pounds against 1876
pounds for the older horses II he wins nothing be taken
from Nashua because Heliosop High Gun and Jet Ac
ton spottng him few pounds he wins Nashua has
got to gain prestige.
Not another horse in America perhaps in the
world, has become a4conrmed classic quickly and
phaticay the Sysonby There have been only nine
nngs for instance and of these the first four
handcaps. 1t didn't get to be stakes until the last
five runnings but the Sysonby has had four of its
winners go to be named Horse-of- the-Year
Try these horses for size Armed in 1947, Citation In
1913. Capot in 1s49 and Tom Fool in 1883.
ORIGINALLY THE sYsoNBY was run at mile and
It's value $25000 1t didn't get into the plus
class until this year. when Belmont Park frankly admitted
the increased purse bait to lure CALIFORNIA; Swaps
New York for another shot at Nashua Being
folk Fasteners did quite believe that Swaps could
beat Nashua Notwithstanding the result Of the Kentucky
Derby.
It good PITCH hard and fast but Ben Lindhemer
Of Washington Park met 1t squarey Lindheime who to-
morrow night will be honored by The Jockey Club racngs
incidentally beat New York to the punch
when he arranged the 100000 match
between Swaps and Nashua.
Even So Belmont might have lured both Nashua and
Swaps for the Sysonby but for the unfortunate foot injury
suffered by Swaps the Chicago classic To point up the
complete soundness and quality Of the sysonby however
It's still considered the of the decade, without
Swaps
This Nashuas first crack at older horses those top
handcappers which set the records You might say that
beating handicap horses all that Nashua hasn't that
Swaps his archrva has done After the Kentucky Derby
the Mormons who Swaps reshpped him to California
where he beat, notably, Determine and Rejected.
THE TYPICAL FASTENERS to Swaps accom-
plishments in top company, is, roughly, as follows:
He still didn't beat anything special Sure Determine
won the 1854 Kentucky Derby but he weworn horse
when Swaps licked him and Rejected quite first
class Swaps beat anything like Helioscope High
Gun"
Nashua hasn't, either but tomorrow he gets his chance
and, newsworthy Maryland UCLA Notre Dame-SMU
and the Yankees horse running at Belmont is going to
claim share Of the sports headlines.
Nothing cheap has won this sysonby which is
than be said for the Kentucky Derby Lucky Draw
the first l946 and then Armed Citation
(beating First Flight and Coatown Capot (beatng Coal
town. Arise che Tom Fool in 1852 and 1858, High
Gun last year.
The Sysonby is race for run-of- the-ml jockey,
either the evidence because Ted Atkinson three
times, Eddie Arcaro and Conn McCreay twice, Doug
Dodson and the late AL Snider apiece And they are
were riders all.