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Lot # 1270: Programs, Admission Tickets & Betting Slip for Two Hall Of Fame Racehorses, Nashua and Swaps (15)

Category: Horse Racing

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 3 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "2023 Summer Classic",
which ran from 7/16/2023 7:00 PM to
8/5/2023 10:00 PM



Programs (9): A.) Nashua (5): 1). 5/19/1954, 2nd in Cherry Hill Stakes at Garden State under little known jockey, Jess Higley (has writing); 2). 8/21/1954, Grand Union Hotel Stakes at Saratoga (won). Has some writing, none on stakes page. The Whitney, also on the card, was won by Social Outcast; 3). 2/26/1955 Flamingo at Hialeah (won). No writing; 4). Sysonby at Belmont Park (3rd to High Gun). No writing, except for small notation where the racegoer's parking space was; and 5). 10/15/1955 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont (won). Has some writing. B.) Swaps (2): 1). 8/20/1955 American Derby at Washington Park (won). No writing; 2) 2/17/1956 Los Angeles County Fair Handicap at Santa Anita (won). Has writing except for stakes page. Third in the race was a horse named Arrogate, not to be confused with the champion 3-yo of the same name who beat California Chrome in the BC Classic in 2016. C.) The only two times Nashua & Swaps faced each other in races (2). 1). 5/7/1955 Kentucky Derby (Swaps won). No writing on the nine-race card except for listing payouts in race four and noting the first 3 finishers in the seventh race; 2). Match race 8/31/1955 at Washington Park (Nashua winning). Only writing is listing the odds in the feature race. Admission tickets (5) Nashua: 1). The Flamingo, see A.3., above. Terrace seat 20 in section H; 2-4). Three, all for the Sysonby Handicap (see A.4., above). Two grandstand tickets with strings attached, section 6, row BB, seat 20 & section 7, row C, seat 24 plus grandstand and paddock pass GST 123; and 5). Match Race. Grandstand reserved ticket section 26, row 1, seat 16. Betting ticket (1) - Mint $10 win ticket on Nashua (number 5), in the Sysonby Handicap.

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