Word: noor
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...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...
...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...
...Noor, a stretch driver from way back, was flying at the far turn. At the head of the homestretch, he collared Calumet's pace-setting filly Two Lea-at the eighth pole he pulled away. Citation, closing well under his burden of 132 Ibs., led the Calumet varsity as Two Lea and Ponder carried the devil-red & blue silks across the finish line in formation...
Said Jockey Longden: "We just sighted the wire and set sail." It was fast sailing. With a 22-lb. pull in the weights, Noor (whose 110-lb. package was 3 Ibs. less than Two Lea's and 14 less than Ponder's) had run the mile-and-a-quarter in two minutes flat-just a fifth of a second off the world record and 1⅓ seconds faster than the track record set by Seabiscuit in the same race ten years...
...silver-haired Owner Charles S. Howard, who bought the horse on a tip from Prince Aly Khan, Noor's victory was worth $97,900. It was the third time in 13 runnings of the big race that Howard had taken the grand prize; in 1939 he won with an Argentine horse named Kayak II, in 1940 with Seabiscuit...