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When Nashua, the favorite, lost the Kentucky Derby to Swaps last May, Nashua's ancient (81) trainer. Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons. admitted that he and Jockey Eddie Arcaro had used the wrong tactics: "We held back. By the time we tried to catch Swaps, it was too late." Last week, before the $100,000 winner-take-all match race at Chicago's Washington Park, most of the 35,000 spectators figured that Nashua could not catch Swaps this time either. Favored at 3-10, Swaps, unbeaten this year, had broken or tied three track records since the Derby...
...horses shot out of the starting gate for the 1¼-mile race. The crowd let out a roar as Arcaro whipped Nashua hard: within seconds the big bay horse spurted ahead, close to the rail. As Nashua shot forward, Swaps first veered to the outside, then tried to close. The crowd waited confidently for Swaps to make his move. Twice, coming into the backstretch and approaching the far turn, Jockey Shoemaker tried to move up on the outside; each time Arcaro whacked his mount and pulled away, holding the inside track. Coming down the long (1,531 ft.) homestretch...
Strong Contender. The shy youngster who reached River Hebert with only $2 in his pocket now wins more than $300,000 a year, is a trotting equivalent of "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons and Eddie Arcaro combined. He drives a Cadillac painted in the bright gold and white colors of his stables, and he modestly gives the credit for his good luck to the St. Christopher medal he wears...
...horses broke well, pounded around the fading arc of the stretch turn where other Derby fields had tangled, and twisted the odds in their rush for the rail. Swaps wasted no time. Jockey Willie Shoemaker booted him clear, and he took the lead. Nashua eased wide, as Jockey Eddie Arcaro held him off the pace. Summer Tan, too, ran with the pack. Coming around the stretch turn again, Nashua made his move. He pulled up for a split-second look at Swaps, and then Shoemaker took his mount away. Said Arcaro later: "Swoosh went Swaps." Nashua just did not have...
...Hialeah, Fla., Belair Stud's favorite son, Nashua, needed Eddie Arcaro's whip to remind him of his work before he romped home, winner by a length and a half in the $141,800 Flamingo Stakes...