Evening star., 1955-07-21
WIN, LOSE OR
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Well, This Is 1t!

NASHUA NOW HAS about 40 days In which to rest up
and sharpen up for the dream horse racethe 100000
match with Swaps with horseothe
honors probably added And he may need the rest, to
hear William Woodward irp his owner and Eddie Arcaro,
his pilot
AS you must know by now racngs big is scheduled
on definite basis for Wednesday, August 81 at Chicagos
Washington Park When Ben Lndheime director of both
Washington and Arlington Parks ebuienty announced the
race settle the hottest sports question of the
he wasn't exaggerating
This will be the match millions of people, racing
minded not, will be watching as they have no other
equestrian affair in not excluding the classic
SeabiscuWar Admiral at Pimico in 1888 The only
Nashua and Swaps met they looked each other in the
eye in Louisves homesretch and Swaps surprised by
pulling away to win the Kentucky Derby
1t made for good story, what with Swaps being bred
in California and owned and raced there by pair OF Mormon
cowboys Since the Derby Swaps has three Hollywood
Park stakes in sensational fashion, one In world record ume
He has straight without defeat this year. far
cry from the record made by Morvch the only other Cali
forna the Kentucky Derby Norwich
II in 2year-od in 1921 impressive victor
In the Derby and then never won another race.
THE CONDITIONS SEEM fair enough-a at mile
and quarter-but more important may be the date
Nashua while winning the 4S500 Arlington Classic
last Saturday for his eighth victory in nine starts this year.
did his true Owner woodward acknowledges
this fact and S does Jockey Arcaro.
We've shifted Nashua back to Saratoga Springs for
well deserved rest" Woodward quoted saying after
accepting for the with Swaps my horse has
been working hard since last December and needs let
down"
Arcaro who calls spade spade often in picturesque
Language had interesting remarks to make in the
of Nashua haf-ength victory in the Classic
Traffic Judge, ordinary 3yearod who had finished up
the stretch when the Woodward the Preakness
1.-THE way he in the Classic" Arcaro saying,
Swaps would have licked him. His (Nashuas) was
below standard don't know why it Maybe barbe
cued him in that workout couple of days before He's
been it long time Maybe the couple of weeks he'll get
at Saratoga feshenng for the Travers will be just the
thing to bring him around again."
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ARcARo WAS SPEAKING before the Swaps Nashua
had been agreed and he thinking ahead only
to the Travers August 13, when he added;
"I had to hit Nashua early in the Classic. Impromptu
out in front going You know Arlington has
short stretch At about the threesixteenths pole Willie
Hartack had his colt umprompu) going good and looked
over his shoulder back at me.
I said to myself The hell with this I can't trust this
colt Nashua got up all right but to give you idea
of how it for Nashua he uckered
at the end.
1.-The charts say Traffic Judge gaining at the end.
Could But it just proves what I'm saying Willie Boand
who riding Traffic Judge, told after the that
his mount drunk at the eighth pole So horse had
to be tuckered out"
NAsHUAs SUPPORTERS LIKE to contend that the son
of Nasrulah win at 100 yards at miles, and maybe
he On of his good days he certainly get out
of the box fast anything else and at the end of the
half Belmont Stakes he looked he wouldn't
mind going another piece
Swaps has virtually unanimous backing in his native
California but fasteners don't think the Derby winner has
a norSeS
such Determine another Kentucky Derby winner East
don't think Swaps should be automatically proclaimed
the best 3yearod off just meeting with Nashua who
the Preakness, Belmont Wood and other important
stakes this coast
Now they figure find out and for ALL If Swaps
is the swer And incidentally Nashua breaks any world
records pre-race workout you have him. The Wood
ward colt is capable Of smashing records in trials but
invariably his that follows is disappointment.
ONLY THREE DAYS before the Arlington Classic,
Nashua veeighths of mile around turn faster than
horse did and after he'd done it people wondered
why.
why run all the wind out of him?" asked who had
been sandout rider himself "They don't pay off
workouts Arcaro supposed to be the guy with clock
his head What happened to the clock that morning-stop
or something's
"Shucks you can sharpen up horse only much.
Then he gets dull The that big hardly ever break
world records in workouts Nine times out
that break records that count easy at the finish like
Equpose doing Arlington % years ago when he
did 1342-with weight up.
Il happen to know he running easy and that he
was pulled UP at the end. there"