Nashua with Jim Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct

Nashua with Jim Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct

Photography of horse sports

This photograph features Nashua with his trainer James Edward 'Sunny Jim' Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct.

Fitzsimmons won 13 Triple Crown race (and trained two Triple Crown winners; Gallant Fox and Omaha) and trained 12 champions and 155 stakes-winning horses that won more than 470 stakes races. He was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1958. 

Nashua, U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1954), U.S. Champion Three-Year-Old Colt (1955), and U.S. Horse of the Year (1955), nearly claimed the Triple Crown in 1955. He won both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes but placed second in the Kentucky Derby.

Bernard Stanley Morgan

1956-10-15

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