Word: nashua
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...keeps right on improving," said Trainer Mesach Tenney of his chestnut colt Swaps, the pride of California. "He's a bigger, stronger horse than when he won the Kentucky Derby from Nashua." Tenney was not the least bit worried, even though in the American Derby at Chicago's Washington Park, Swaps would be running his first race on grass. Said he: "I guess good horses run on any kind of track...
...Swaps, the gallant California colt that upset Nashua in the Kentucky Derby, will get another crack at the Eastern champion. Running over the Derby distance (1¼ miles) and carrying Derby weight (126 Ibs.), the two thoroughbreds will meet in a match race at Chicago's Washington Park on August...
...Effa Manley, owner of the Newark (N.J.) Eagles, gave him his first big chance in 1944 simply because he looked big enough (6 ft. 4 in., 225 lbs.) to throw hard. By 1946 he was throwing hard enough to make his way to a Dodger farm club in Nashua. N.H. There, a mild-mannered manager named Walter Alston learned his first lessons in handling the moody pitcher. And an up-and-coming catcher named Roy Campanella learned how to needle him into game-winning pitch...
...seemed off to a bad start. A silly squabble with Manager Alston about pitching batting practice got him a quick but firm invitation to clear out of the clubhouse (TIME, May 23). Newk brooded for a day, apologized and came back with blood in his eye. Out of his Nashua experience, Dodger Manager "Smokey" Alston had obviously fashioned the right formula for handling his hot righthander. Newk has been fogging the ball past enemy batters ever since...
...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...