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There was always a first time, decided Jockey Eddie Arcaro, up on Citation. He had it all figured out before the race, as he always has. Said he: "I wish those other horses would scratch out. Then I'd be breathing on Coaltown that first half-mile. Of course, if I go out and kill him off-and let one of those other horses come along and beat us both-they'd have a right to come after me with...
...Arcaro let Coaltown get a seven-length lead before he moved into second position. Looking back over his shoulder, Arcaro saw that the rest of the field was "too drunk" to threaten. He clucked to Citation and the gap began to close. The two Calumet horses entered the stretch noses apart, Coaltown on the rail and Citation taking a path ten feet out. Arcaro did not hit Citation with the whip until he was in front and then only because he "just wanted to keep him busy. He likes to loaf once he gets by horses." Arcaro steered Citation under...
Afterwards Arcaro, who had lost out in the past two Derbies, said with a face-sweeping grin: "For once I picked the right horse." It wasn't the first time: last week's easy victory made him the first jockey ever to win four Kentucky Derbies. The time-2:05 2/5-was good over that kind of track...
...Citation, mahogany-colored wonder horse, wanned up for the Kentucky Derby by winning Havre de Grace's $25,000 Chesapeake Stakes. On his back was Eddie Arcaro, the nation's No. 1 jockey, who hoped Citation would be his fourth Derby winner. The others: Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (1941), Hoop...
...field thundered by the clubhouse turn, Assault was being snugged along in eighth place by Jockey Eddie Arcaro. Armed, under wraps too, was several lengths ahead of him, in sixth place. Nobody paid much attention to the other seven horses in the race. When Assault made his move, Armed began to move also-and the biggest crowd that had ever squeezed into Hialeah Park (34,394 people) let out a roar. Max's binoculars trembled as he watched five horses (Armed and Assault among them) charge into the stretch fighting for the lead. A few moments later a startled...