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...Triple Crown winner's first major start since he pulled a muscle two weeks after the Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and 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...
Papa Redbird got away first, and for almost six furlongs set the pace, while Arcaro was content to lag behind. (Says Eddie: "Citation's a great competitive colt. He wants speed out in front of him.") On the far turn Citation overtook and easily passed Papa. Jockey R. L. Baird gave Papa a breather around the bend. Most of the fans, and Citation himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half...
...Disc Jockeys: "Often called 'nocturnal non sequiturs.' To be a disc jockey you have to have insomnia and a collection of records...
...first half mile, Citation lagged in fifth place. Knockdown, a hard-luck horse flown from the East for the race, set the pace most of the way. Then Jockey Eddie Arcaro, usually a spare-the-whip man with Citation, really let him have it (said he later: "I've hit him once or twice before in all the other races. Never hit him like this"). Going into the far turn, Citation started to move up. Arcaro brought him up on the outside, sacrificing ground to avoid jamming. (Said Eddie: "I had plenty of horse under me when I moved...
...Longchamps victory last week on My Love made him the first jockey in history to win all four of Europe's big horse races the same year. He had already won the English Derby (on My Love), the Irish Derby (on Nathoo), the French Derby...