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Nashua Takes Measure of Summer Tan In Juvenile Stakes at Belmont Park Oval Arcaro Completes Triple on 4 Belair Colt; Claim of Foul By Guerin Is Not Allowed By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 12. Appearing to play with his desperately striving rival in the final sixteenth, Belair Studs Nashua beat Mrs. R. A. Firestones Summer Tan in the 78th running of the 5,775 Juvenile Stakes. Immediately after the race, Eric Guerin, who rode Summer Tan, claimed foul against Eddie Arcaro, who was completing a triple on Nashua. The two colts raced close together through the final furlong as they drew far away from the ref. of the field, with Nashua on the inside. After viewing the patrol films, the stewards maintained the result, seeing no evidence of the interference which Guerin said occurred at the eighth pole. It was at that point that Arcaro roused the winner, taking command in two long, swif i bounds. Eight lengths back of the leaders came Wheatley Stables Laugh, who was couplec". with Nashua, while Greentree Stables favored Gold Box was another two lengths out of the money and never came into contention. Nashua, who had scored an easy victory in his only other start last Wednesday, paid .00 and netted William Woodward, Jr. 2,150. The son of Nasrullah from Se-gula, by Johnstown, is the second stakes" winner for the son of the late chairman of Continued on Page Forty-Three WILLIAM WOODWARD, JR. Nashua carried his Belair Stud colors to a half-length victory in the Juvenile Stakes at the Belmont Park oyal. Nashua Triumphs f; Over Summer Tan Arcaro Completes Triple On Belair Colt in Juvenile; Foul Claim Is Not Allowed Continued from Page One The Jockey Club, Sabette having won the Gallorette Stakes soon after William Woodward, Sr.s death last year. The younger Woodward also has the current favorite for the English Derby in Ambler U, who was bred by his father in Kentucky. The time of :58 was slightly better than acceptable, in view of the strong quartering wind that to some extent impeded the horses running down the Widener course. Sound Barrier and Nashua were first to show in front in the Juvenile, while Summer Tan was away a bit sluggishly, followed by Lenny Gale and Stack. Summer Tan recovered quickly, however, and at the end of a quarter was a close third behind Nashua and Sound Barrier and forged to the front a few strides farther on. Sound Barrier dropped out of contention coming to the eighth pole, while Lenny Gale made a feeble bid to get into contention and Gold Box was back in sixth place and not going anywhere. Passing the furlong pole, Arcaro asked Nashua to run and the Nasrullah colt quickly shot into command. The films showed that Nashua and Summer Tan did come together at this point, but steward Marshall Cassidy said that both colts appeared equally at fault and to suffer equally from the mild collision. Content to Hold Summer Tan Safe In the final yards, Arcaro appeared content to hold Summer Tan safe, which Nashua did without being unduly urged, while Guerin employed whip, hand and heel, all a bit frantically, in his effort to make Summer Tan regain the lead. Though responding willingly, the Youthful Stakes winner was unable to regain an inch on the winner, to whom he was trying to give five pounds. Laugh ran an even race all the way, never .threatening the leaders while holding the others without too much trouble. Gold Box, who had won impressively in his last start, turned in a race that was probably too poor to be .entirely true. After the logical choice, Mrs. G. H. Bost-wicks Hyvania, beat the logical second choice, Lawrence Troianos Williamsburg in the hurdle race to pay .00, a paddock tip stood up in the Pupil Purse. This was Frank C. Rand, Jr.s Heed Me, who went off almost equal chice with C. V. Whitneys Sugar Dad. At the end of the six furlongs, Charley OBrien kept Heed Me going long enough to score by almost a length over W. Goadby Loews Seven Spades, who led Brae Burn Farms Striking Hour by a half length, while Sugar Dad tired badly and finished a nose out of the money. Heed Me paid .30 and required 1:13 for the distance. The three-year-old gelded son of Attention, who won the first of his two starts last year, had a flash of early speed in his recent sophomore debut behind the brilliant Jet Action.
