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...Moving easily through the mist at Belmont Park. Belair Stud's big bay champion Nashua won as he pleased (by nine lengths, odds 3-20) in the 87th running of the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes. Meanwhile. 3,000 miles away at Hollywood Park, Swaps, the long-striding chestnut colt that beat Nashua in the Kentucky Derby, took on Determine, the 1954 Derby winner, and came home a length in front in the $109,800 Californian. Swaps's time: a world record 1:40-2/5 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth course...
...heart-stopping habit of running no faster than he has to sent Belair Stud's homebred bay colt Nashua home in the 79th running of the Preakness at Pimlico, Md., winner by a length over Saratoga...
...Thanks to Turf Columnist Evan Shipman's complaint, New York's Metropolitan Jockey Club belatedly arranged to televise its last race of the spring meeting: the $111,700 mile-and-a-furlong Wood Memorial. And thanks to the desperate courage of Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, closing from behind in the final jump to nip Mrs. John W. Galbreath's Summer Tan by a neck, millions of televiewers saw a thriller...
...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...
Prince & Pauper. Bred to the purple at Maryland's rich Belair Stud (by Nasrullah out of Segula) and trained by 80-year-old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American trackmen, Nashua went to Hialeah boasting a fine record as a two-year-old-six victories in eight starts-and a promising contender for the Kentucky Derby. Mr. Fitz, already a winner of three Derbys (Gallant Fox, 1930; Omaha, 1935; Johnstown, 1939), has brought him along slowly. Petted and pampered, watched and worried over like a prince, Nashua may work the kinks out of his legs in one more race...