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...first half mile, Citation lagged in fifth place. Knockdown, a hard-luck horse flown from the East for the race, set the pace most of the way. Then Jockey Eddie Arcaro, usually a spare-the-whip man with Citation, really let him have it (said he later: "I've hit him once or twice before in all the other races. Never hit him like this"). Going into the far turn, Citation started to move up. Arcaro brought him up on the outside, sacrificing ground to avoid jamming. (Said Eddie: "I had plenty of horse under me when I moved...
Like Eddie Arcaro, the best of U.S. jockeys, the Crocodile has a way with horses and a knack of infuriating the fans...
...Johnny Longden. 2. Earl Sande. 3. Ted Atkinson 4. Laverne Fator. 5. Eddie Arcaro...
...Gangbuster. It was a different story at Camden. Jockey Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17), who came down to ride, said of Citation: "It's fun. I didn't have much confidence in him the day he won the Derby. Now I play a little game-I let those other horses sneak up pretty close, then I cluck to him. Wow! You can feel the power. What a gangbuster...
...power is turned on slowly. When Citation sets the pace (he runs just as well that way), he looks lethargic and uninterested. Once he gets in front, the jockey has to keep reminding him that he is in a horse race. With the odds 1 to 10, Arcaro played his little game again with Citation, to the delight of the fans. He let other horses sneak up on him, then clucked. The gangbuster won by ten lengths-clipping if seconds off Garden State's mediocre mile-and-a-quarter track record...