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Saratoga Finds Chasing Nashua Can Be Costly 27j 50 Difference Between Win7 Place in Flamingo, Preakness DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 9. — It cost Mrs. Marion duPont Scotts brown colt Saratoga exactly 27,150 to play second fiddle to Belair Studs Nashua in two 00,000 stakes this year but, Saturday Saratoga is expected to have things pretty much his own way in Delaware Parks Leonard Richards while his nemesis, Nashua, goes postward in the Belmont Stakes. - In Hialeahs Flamingo, Saratoga got within a length and a half of Nashua. In the recent Preakness at Pimlico, Mrs. Scotts colorbearer finished a. length off the Belair Bullet but this Saturday, trainer Frank Bonsai is making sure that Saratoga and Nashua will be close to 140 miles apart. Arid you cant blahie the Maryland r * "r 11 conditionerv Saratoga looms almost as big a standout in the Leonard Richards renewal as does Nashua in the Belmont. In the Pi*eak-ness, Saratoga forced Nashua to set a new track record and his second share of the purse boosted him into the ranks of 00,-000 winners. As a two-and three-year-old, Saratoga has gleaned 13,475. Blad Nashua not been in the Flamingo and Preakness, Saratoga would be 27,150 richer. First monies in those two stakes amounted to 72,150; second monies came to 5,000. Saratoga also met Nashua in the Florida Derby but failed to get close to the eastern champion in that Hundred Grander. Nashua wasnt around when Saratoga captured the Chesapeake Stakes at Laurel and finished second in Garden States Jersey Stakes, losing by a neck to Dedicate • after being slightly bothered. It was after the Preakness that trainer Bonsai decided that hed keep Saratoga : at Delaware Park and aim at the 0,000, mile ;and a furlong Leonard Richards— and "Have no more to do with Nashua.
