Word: nashua
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...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...
This week Hialeah's landscape will be a backdrop for another drama: the second of the meeting's two biggest races: $100,000 Flamingo Stakes. The top stars: William Woodward's noble bay colt, Nashua, and Boston Doge, a dark bay sprinter owned by Paul Andolino, a Boston livery-stable operator...
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...
Each horse has yet to run a race of more than a mile-and the Flamingo is a mile and an eighth. Most of the smart money has already decided that Nashua has the stamina, the Boston Doge is a front runner who will fade in the last long furlong. To most of the paddock prophets it looked like a lock. "But don't forget," one of them hedged, "once, they even beat...