Millionaire Horse

Charging past the 16th-pole, the four great horses seemed almost to be running in harness. Tensely the crowd at Florida's Hialeah race track watched the melee of heads and hoofs. The spectacle was a tribute to the talent of Handicapper Charles McLennon, who had carefully weighted the entrants in the mile-and-a-quarter Widener. There was Nashua (running for the first time since he was bought by a syndicate from the Woodward estate for $1,251,200), lugging 127 Ibs.; "the Big Horse" was inching up gamely on Alfred Vanderbilt's Find (114 Ibs.). Between them, Brookmeade Stable's Sailor (119 Ibs.) hung on under his own courage. On the outside was Vanderbilt's late-closing Social Outcast (121 Ibs.).

It took a photo to separate the four; Jockey Eddie Arcaro had booted Nashua home by a head. Second was Social Outcast, third the tired Sailor. As a first dividend for his new owners, Nashua earned $92,600, boosting his earnings to $1,038,015, making him the second millionaire horse in turf history, just $47,745 poorer than Citation.

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