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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...
...Owner Rex Ellsworth pointed out, Swaps never reached top speed; a flared-up foot injury might have caused a slowdown. The injury will require surgery; Swaps will probably be out of racing until December. But Swaps's misfortunes did not dim Nashua's victory, which raised his earnings for Owner William Woodward Jr. to $882,565. Said triumphant Old Master Arcaro, who had ridden one of the shrewdest races of his 24 years in the saddle: "Nashua did everything that Mr. Fitz and I planned...
Horse Racing. (Wed. 6 p.m., CBS-TV & Radio). Swaps v. Nashua, from Chicago's Washington Park...
...every faith in Swaps, but he knew too well that in a horse race anything can happen. He did not intend to let a $146,425 imitation of the Epsom Derby take the shine off the big race coming up, the Aug. 31 match race between Swaps and Nashua, the best three-year-olds on the track...