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...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...
...good horse to win $2,900 (winner's share of La Sorpresa) when there was a $100,000 plum in the offing. If Citation's tune-up had been a shade off pitch, he nevertheless remained the heavy favorite to run off with the $100.000 Santa Anita Handicap later this month. What did furrow some trackwise foreheads was how Miche had managed the surprise-even granted that he was an established stakes-class horse and Glisson had given him a perfect ride...
...conviction. Hugh Marlowe, Robert Patten, John Kellogg, Millard Mitchell and Paul Stewart are all able actors in top form. If Hollywood had no star system, the difficult central role would call for an actor of more physical maturity than Gregory Peck. Nonetheless, Star Peck rises above the handicap with a strong, beautifully modulated performance that never lets the role down...
...odds were that Citation would be running in at least one or two more warm-ups before he kept a Feb. 11 date in the $50,000-added San Antonio Handicap. His main objective: the Santa Anita Handicap, Feb. 25, with $100,000 guaranteed to the winner. Citation had a chance to be a millionaire before he left California...
Dunster ever came a handicap in height with superior speed, and took their game from a tall but slow Eliot team. The score stood at 10-6 for the Funsters after the first half, but the Elephants were held to four points during the latter half while Duster piled up 14 points to run away with the game, 24-10. Duane Lanszerk of the Funsters took high scoring honors...