If there was any doubt left, Citation proved last week that he is a great race horseprobably the greatest since Man o' War.
He stumbled at the start of the $100,000 Belmont Stakes, but that only lent a touch of showmanship to his performance. An ambitious upstart named Faraway ran with him for seven furlongs before Citation killed him off. Once out front, Jockey Eddie Arcaro let Citation roll. He won by eight lengthsand became the eighth horse in history to win the triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont). His time for the mile-and-a-half, 2:28 1/5, equaled Count Fleet's for the...
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