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...eleven Handicap starters paraded to the post last week, the crowd of 65,000 was betting the all-powerful Calumet Farm entry-Citation, Ponder and Two Lea-as though it was money in the bank. With the Calumet trio at 1-to-3, Noor was a lukewarm 6-to-1 second choice. At that, it seemed a surprisingly short price considering the opposition. But as it turned out, Longden knew best...
...Calumet Trainer Jimmy Jones, who has been prepping his horse for the 132 Ibs. he must carry in the Santa Anita Handicap, it was mostly a matter of weight: Citation had carried 130 lbs., Miche 114. Said Jimmy Jones: "I've raced horses long enough to know that nobody stays in the handicap division and keeps the record clean. That goes for Man o' War too.* Citation will be lucky if he wins half of 'em from now on." Others thought that Jockey Brooks had shipped his whip too soon, that a jock like cagey Eddie Arcaro...
Aboard Miche, smart, young (19) Jockey Gordon Glisson applied the pressure. At the eighth pole Citation was a head behind. Calumet Jockey Steve Brooks finally took to the whip, but at the finish Miche was a neck in front...
...days later, in the $100,000 Santa Anita Maturity, Calumet got back in stride. With Eddie Arcaro in the saddle, Calumet's fine filly Two Lea took the lead and led the field all the way into the stretch. There Arcaro looked over his shoulder, saw Calumet's Ponder coming like a lumberjack to dinner. At the finish it was Ponder by a length, with Two Lea second and the rest nowhere. Jimmy Jones felt better. If Citation should fail, Miche and the others would still have Ponder-and Two Lea-to beat in the Hundred-Grander...
...Calumet's campaign to make Citation the first "million-dollar horse" in history ($867,750 so far), his $2,600 share of the purse was hardly worth picking up. But Citation was back in form again: and that was racing news. Trainer Jones bustled down to the winner's circle to meet his horse as he jogged back, his bay hide splotched with mud and lather. Jimmy crouched, stared anxiously at the foreleg that had long kept Citation idle, and announced with relief: "He's sound . . . When he tells me-as he did a couple of days...