MATCH RACE IN CHICAGO

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27734, 11 August 1955, Page 4

MATCH RACE IN CHICAGO

Two of the moit remarkable horses in the recent history of American racing will meet on August 21 in a great match race. They are three-year-olds: Mr Rex Ellsworth’s chestnut Swaps, from California. and Mr William Woodward’s bay colt Nashua, from New York, and they both have sensational records. The race, whose terms have been agreed upon between the two owners, will take place at Washington Park, Chicago, over the Kentucky Derby distance of one mile and a quarter. There will be a 100,000 dollar purse, winner-take-all —and a gold cup for the victor. , , Two of America’s leading jockeys. Willie Shoemaker and Eddie Arcaro, will ride Swaps and Nashua respectively. The race will not only determine tne unofficial champion threh-year-old, it will also decide whether the horse of the year” comes from the East coast or tne West, and it is this aspect which may well make this challenge into the heaviest backed horse race in history.

MAGIC CARPET WINS

(N Z. Press Association-Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) SYDNEY. August 10. The New Zealander, Magic Carpet 11. beat Penryn Lad by a long neck Wednesday Handicap at Canterbury Park t °h?aglc Vi Carpet U li n clipped rd ilsec ort th. r *Ridden Or by h N. r Seilwood, Magic Carpet II started a 6 to 4 favourite,. and ran the nine furlongs in Imin 53sec.