Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes (new track record of 1:58 for 1 miles, lowering previous mark by a full second, carrying 130 lb.; win betting only despite a seven-horse field) 1st - Sunset Handicap (new track and world record for 1 miles with time of 2:38, lowering previous track record by 2 seconds, carrying 130 lb.; front-running effort "under stout restraint, eased in the last sixteenth of a mile) 7th - Arch Ward Memorial Handicap (well-beaten on a soft turf course apparently unsuitable to his sore condition) 1st - Washington Park Handicap (new track record of 1:33 for a mile carrying 130 lb.; six furlong split was 1:07, 2 full seconds faster than the track record) The End of a Career In October, training for the Washington, D.C. International at [Garden State Park, Cherry Hill, New Jersey], he fractured his leg in two places in his left rear cannon bone, then a week later banged his leg in his stall, breaking his cast, and extending the fractures into his pastern joint. Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, the trainer of Nashua, sent him a special sling from Belmont Park. He initially had to be raised and lowered every 45 minutes and trainer Mesh Tenny stayed with the horse and performed the function for the first 36 hours. In November 1956, despite losing 300 pounds during the ordeal, he beat the odds and jogged away from his ordeal and was saved for stud duty. Stud record Swaps began at stud at Rex Ellsworth's farm, moving to John Galbreath's Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Kentucky after a season. His last five seasons were at Spendthrift Farm. Swaps sired several dozen offspring, including 35 stakes winners. Among his most successful offspring were Chateaugay, winner of the 1963 Kentucky Derby and the 1963 Belmont Stakes, and the U.S. Hall of Fame filly, Affectionately. In November 1972, he was euthanized at the age of 20. He was buried at Spendthrift Farm, but his remains were moved in 1986 to the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Honors A bronze of Swaps with jockey Bill Shoemaker was dedicated July 1, 1958. Its design and setting was created by Millard Sheets and the sculpture by Albert Stewart. The statue stood at the Hollywood Park Racetrack Clubhouse entrance gardens from 1958 until the closing of Hollywood Park in 2014 and is currently in storage awaiting placement near SoFi Stadium