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Back in the barn, the help call Calumet Farm's Coaltown "the Goose"; he has a way of outstretching his long, thin neck when he runs. On St. Valentine's Day at Hialeah Park last week, the Goose flew as he had never flown before. Flashing by the seven-furlong marker in 1:21 1/5 (world-record time), Coaltown was ten lengths in front and still pulling away. At the mile, stop watches caught him in 1:34 1/5 (a shade faster than Equipoise's world record set at Arlington Park...
After his ankle went bad a year ago, Calumet Farm's Armed was turned out to graze on Kentucky bluegrass. Armed is a gelding and no use at stud, but as 1947's horse-of-the-year, and winner of $773,700 (now third highest in racing history), the then seven-year-old had earned the right to grow old in comfort. Instead, Armed perked up with the rest cure; his ankle bothered him hardly at all. Last week, to a sentimental flurry of applause from the crowd, the old champ jogged to the post at Hialeah Park...
...Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy, but unseasoned three-year-old whom Calumet is getting ready for the fall stakes...
Citation's stablemate, Free America, was second by a length as Papa faltered into fourth. Calumet Owner Warren Wright was richer by $78,450 in first and second place money...
...money winner ($911,335), fractured a bone in his right forefoot in July and has been "resting, just resting" since Trainer Hirsch Jacobs sent him to a Virginia farm. Armed, second money winner ($773,700), sprained his left foreleg last winter, lost some easy races, and was retired to Calumet Farm because Trainer Jones didn't want to see the seven-year-old "degraded." Assault was retired to stud (but proved impotent) after losing the Widener Handicap last February (TIME, March 1). Citation's victory last week put him ahead of Assault as the third greatest money winner...