The Widener Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida was a Grade III stakes race for Thoroughbred racehorses 3-years-old and up. It was run over a distance of 1+1⁄4 miles until 1993 whe
Postcard depicting the finish of the 1948 Widener Handicap
Nashua was an American-born thoroughbred racehorse, bred in Kentucky and best remembered for a 1955 match race against Swaps, the horse that had defeated him in the Kentucky Derby.