Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his three California losses, the 60,000 racing fans who jammed Santa Anita last week for the $50,000-added San Juan Capistrano Handicap still had faith in Citation. Calumet's scuffed-up wonder horse was being sent to the post carrying 130 Ibs.-two pounds less than the week before when Irish-bred Noor beat him in the Santa Anita Handicap. This time Noor was carrying seven more pounds-117. And the Capistrano, at the unusual distance of a mile and three quarters, was certainly long enough for a test of class...
This December, veteran Jockey Johnny Longden began riding Noor, and talking him up as the horse to beat in the $100,000-added Santa Anita Handicap. Longden said Noor was "maybe the best horse I've been on since Count Fleet," winner of the Triple Crown...
...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...
...Florida's Hialeah Park last weekend, another Calumet favorite flopped at 7-to-10 odds. Coaltown, co-holder of the world record at a mile-and-a-quarter, showed a flash of early foot in the $50,000-added Widener Handicap, then flattened out like a claiming plater. He finished next to last, beaten ten lengths by Royal Governor...
...Duffy was not letting his latest triumph go to his head. "It worries me, getting up to second place," he said. "If it gives us a sense of complacency, it'll be a real handicap...