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California rain slanted down on Santa Anita's water-logged racing strip; a light earthquake shook the track between the second and third races. It hardly seemed an ideal day for a comeback. Nonetheless, Calumet Farm sent Citation, the wonder horse, wading to the post for his first race in 13 months. Lest anybody accuse him of taking unnecessary risks with the great horse, Trainer Horace A. ("Jimmy") Jones explained that his decision had been based on careful calculations. Said Jimmy: "I decided the horse was mentally ready as well as physically. When a horse is ready, he should...
...sometimes resuited in a race of the year (such as War Admiral v. Seabiscuit in 1938).* Last week's renewal of the sporting Special-by invitation as usual, for $15,000 winner-take-all-brought together the two speed demons of 1949's two leading stables: Calumet's four-year-old Coaltown and Greentree's three-year-old Capot...
Second Choice. Gaver thought so too. What he didn't want to do was to run Capot in the Special against a Calumet entry of Coaltown and Ponder-with Coaltown setting a murderous pace and Ponder coming from behind in the stretch. By threatening to keep his horse in the barn, Gaver forestalled that possibility...
...Five of the Specials have been won by all-conquering Calumet Farm, two of them in "walkovers" by Whirlaway and Citation, whose championship claims no other stable could even challenge...
...into the lead. The experts waited to see him chopped down at any moment. But with Jockey Ted Atkinson swinging his whip, Guillotine was still in front after covering six furlongs in i :og, and lasted the additional sixteenth of a mile to win by almost a length from Calumet Farm's highly regarded Theory. In name, if not in fact, the colt that had won a mere $7,250 before last week (Futurity value to the winner: $87,585) was the champion U.S. two-year...