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...home state, where he got a 5-lb. native-son weight advantage. There was also an old bluegrass-and-julep tradition : "No horse whose name begins with 'N' can win a Derby." None ever had; Native Dancer, the favorite, was nosed out in '53; last year Nashua, the favorite, was whipped...
Harold W. Grant, Manager of the Harvard Faculty Club, died suddenly the age of 61 last Friday. A native of Milford, New Hampshire, and a graduate of Nashua Business College, he joined the staff of the Club as assistant manage in 1943, becoming Manager...
...giving Poujade the cover story, TIME is helping an illiterate opportunist to gain more strength and popularity and, therefore, more seats at a future election in France. If you have run out of cover people, why not switch to animals? I'd take Nashua instead of Poujade any time...
...Carrying the orange silks of Leslie Combs's Spendthrift Farms on St. Patrick's Day was much too much for Nashua, the great bay colt gunning for Florida's $112,900 Gulfstream Park Handicap and a purse that would push his total earnings past Citation's alltime record of $1,085,760. Brookmeade Stable's pace-setting Sailor had more than enough to hold off Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Markus' Mielleux in the stretch drive. Third: Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Find. Nashua, under top weight of 129 Ibs. was never in contention...
...took a photo to separate the four; Jockey Eddie Arcaro had booted Nashua home by a head. Second was Social Outcast, third the tired Sailor. As a first dividend for his new owners, Nashua earned $92,600, boosting his earnings to $1,038,015, making him the second millionaire horse in turf history, just $47,745 poorer than Citation...