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...devote himself almost exclusively to his real interests: circulating through international society, racing his string of thoroughbred horses, and hunting big game in Africa and India. When he was not traveling abroad. Woodward divided his time between a Manhattan town house on East 73rd Street, his 2,500-acre Belair Stud Farm* near Bowie, Md. and a 60-acre estate at Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore...
...Belair Stud was established by Woodward's great-uncle and developed by his father, a famed breeder of horses. It has produced three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox, Omaha and Johnstown), as well as Nashua, this year's champion three-year-old and top money-winner...
Died. William Woodward Jr., 35, socialite and tiger-hunting sportsman, owner of the famed Belair Stud (the colt Nashua); in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Over a sloppy track at Belmont Park, Belair Stud's Nashua scored his tenth victory in twelve 1955 starts to win the $79,950 Jockey Club Gold Cup. The purse boosted Nashua's earnings for this year to $752,550, surpassing the old record for single-season earnings ($709,470) set by Citation in 1948. Three-year-old Nashua's lifetime winnings now total $945,415, second to Citation's record...
...Taking his time at the start. King Ranch's hefty brown colt High Gun splashed from behind in mud and fog to win the Sysonby Handicap, so-called "Race of Champions," at Belmont Park. Second by a mud-splattered head: Main Chance Farm's Jet Action. Third: Belair Stud's three-year-old champion, Nashua, running for the first time against older horses. At Atlantic City, Irish-bred Blue Choir, a four-year-old colt, ridden by leading U.S. Jockey Willie Hartack. won the third running of the $104,600 United Nations Handicap. Second: Fox-Catcher Farms...