Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-17
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAW By FRANCIS sTANN
Not Lucky, Only Greet

IT'S TOO BAD that Swaps is not a lucky horse Just
great is all, not lucky Had Swaps sound the
purstS might have wound by comparing him with
O War and Phar Lap belonged company anyway
Now his racing future is matter of grave doubt.
Pretty soon the pulSeakers going to be asking
for the greatest racing story of 1857 That will easy
answer is that it did not of-Swaps Nashua
rubber match.
ironica that Nashua concluded his racing career
last Saturday and that Swaps leg injury took turn for
the worse yesterday Both were marvellous Their
did them favors Swaps accused of having
to take his track with him. Nashuas syndicate didn't
want him to carry 1870 pounds.
The first time Swaps May l, 1885, outside
of his stall in Louisville KY. The colt and his
the fraternity Rex Ellsworth his of record
but insisted that Meshach Mish Tenney the trainer held
similar interests They ex-cowpunchers MomonS
who paid 1.-THE of 10 per cent of earnings and they
high in praise of Swaps
THIS DAY MISH TENNEY, complete with cowboy hat
led out his horse and Swaps something to He
long lean with kind reddish cast to his coat He
out of Currier g. Ives.
Ths here colt is the Kentucky Derby winner to my way
of thinking" Tenney drawled In the early morn, with
visitors to Churchill Downs hardly awake not
great deal of attention paid There had been Cali
orna horses in the past that had laid big fat eggs Besides
there Nashua and Summer Tan
Swaps the IS Derby by length and half over
Nashua late that evening and early the next morning
there newspapemen who went to estud this fabulous
colt And they learned that Swaps wrong, because
hoo injury his right forefoot was encased in part
of woman's slipper carefully cut by Trainer Tenney
weather Tenney sitting astride waved
of concentrations thet horse kin like know he
kim kin buy pair of womenS slippers most any time,
he drawled
so THE COLT Swaps He set four world records tied
another and 10 his 26 As 3yearod he sped
a mile and sixteenth at Hollywood Park in laos That
good enough for 100000 purse Last summer Swaps
the distance in l:39.
All in ALL Swaps races for purses OF more
than 100000 the question frequently raised to
whether he better than Nashua They met for the
time you know August of So in Chicago and the
winner was Nashua, easily Six seven lengths or SO.
Swaps fancerS always claimed their steed was lame
They sagged when Willie Shoemaker no heavier than
feather mounted him in nfeld in Chicago Swaps did
not run like sound horse but this might be taking away
from Nashua
And wasn't it nice touch yesterday when old Sunny
Jim Fzsimmon shipped along that special leg slngone
very of its ypeo Swaps in his hour OF need?
WHEN BOTH NASHUA AND SWAPS returned to racing
as 4-year-ods match considered the ultimate There
would be dramatic nalty to it. Alas the owners had too
much invested to be sporsmen. syndicate now owned
Nashua and ditto for Swaps.
Fasteners who skeptica of Swaps after his mad
runs on the hardened in California did not think
that Swaps was all he cracked to be- BY the same
token Westerners swore by him.
The pity that Swaps was really sound Iheres
no telling what he might On the coast he used
10 heat pretty good horse named Mister Gus DID IT once
week seemed like Once he gave Mister Gus ~ pounds
and ran away from him Not long ago the same morse
Mister Gusran at level weights with Nashua and beat MN
real good.