Last night I watched a documentary of the great Calumet Farms racehorse Citation. I grew up with this horse, and I remember our family following the news to see if Citation would become the first racehorse to earn one million dollars, which seemed like an incredible feat. My granddad picked a longshot that ended up beating Citation late in the horse's career, another incredible feat. Citation is considered to be the great horse between Man of War and Secretariat (i.e. better than Seabiscuit) by most racing experts. With Santa Anita and Hollywood Park in our area, both going strong, it was easy to become a racing fan in Southern California in the 1940s and 1950s.
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