When Citation was sidelined with an osselet after two years of racing, he had won the triple crown, $865,150 for Owner Warren Wright, and ranking with Man o' War. For most of last year, when he should have been at his racing prime, four-year-old Citation did nothing much but munch his daily quota of oats and hay. He went back to work last fall and by January, at Santa Anita, Trainer Jimmy Jones had him ready again. He won an easy one, then finished second in five successive handicaps in which he carried top weight. Though each of the defeats was...
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