Citation (horse)

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Citation
Sire: Bull Lea
Dam: Hydroplane
Damsire: Hyperion
Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1945
Country: USA
Colour: Bay
Breeder: Calumet Farm
Owner: Calumet Farm
Trainer: Ben A. Jones
Jimmy Jones
Record: 45: 32-10-2
Earnings: $1,085,760
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Futurity Stakes (1947)
Pimlico Futurity (1947)
Flamingo Stakes (1948)
Kentucky Derby (1948)
Preakness Stakes (1948)
Belmont Stakes (1948)
Stars and Stripes Handicap (1948)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (1948)
American Derby (1948)
Pimlico Special (1948)
Hollywood Gold Cup (1950)
Racing Awards
8th U.S. Triple Crown Champion (1948)
U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1947)
U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1948)
U.S. Horse of the Year (1948)
U.S. Champion Older Horse (1951)
Timeform rating: 142
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1959)
#3 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Life-size statue at Hialeah Park
Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park

Infobox last updated on: December 4, 2006.

Citation (April 11, 1945 - August 8, 1970) was a American thoroughbred horse-racing Triple Crown champion.

Owned and bred by Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, Citation was a bay colt, the son of Bull Lea and the mare, Hydroplane. Trained by Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones, Citation won his first start as a two-year-old at Havre de Grace, Maryland. For the year he would race nine times, winning eight of them and earning $155,680. Citation was the first horse to win US $1 million.

Citation started the 1948 racing season by defeating stable mate Armed, who had been voted thoroughbred racing's 1947 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year. Even though Jimmy Jones was Citation's trainer, the colt ran in the Kentucky Derby under his father's name to allow Ben Jones to tie the record for the most number of Derby wins by a trainer. Ridden by jockey Eddie Arcaro, Citation won the Kentucky Derby by 3 ½ lengths then went to Baltimore and won the Preakness Stakes by 5 ½ lengths. From there he won the Jersey Derby before going to Elmont, New York and becoming the 8th Triple Crown winner by capturing the Belmont Stakes. By the end of that season, the three-year-old horse had a career record of 27 victories and two seconds in 29 starts. For his performances, Citation was voted Horse of the Year honors.

Injuries kept Citation from racing in 1949 but he came back to race in 1950 and won the Golden Gate Mile Handicap. However, he lost several other races in what was for him a mediocre campaign. He started the 1951 season with three poor performances in a row but came back to win his final three starts, capping off his career with a victory in the Hollywood Gold Cup that made him thoroughbred racing's first millionaire.

Citation retired during the 1951 racing season, his accomplishments amongst the best in the history of American racing. As a sire at Calumet Farm he produced a number of noteworthy offspring but none that achieved any great success in the top levels of thoroughbred racing. His progeny includes Hall of Fame filly Silver Spoon and 1956 Preakness Stakes winner Fabius. In 1959, the horse was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Citation died on August 8, 1970 at the age of 25. He is buried in the horse cemetery at Calumet Farm.

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[edit] Ranking

In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Citation was ranked #3.

  • Career race record: 45 races - 32,10,2
  • Career earnings: $1,085,760

[edit] Pedigree

Pedigree of Citation
Sire
Bull Lea		 Bull Dog Teddy Ajax I
Rondeau
Plucky Liege Spearmint
Concertina
Rose Leaves Ballot Voter
Cerito
Colonial Trenton
Thankful Blossom
Dam
Hydroplane		 Hyperion Gainsborough Bayardo
Rosedrop
Selene Chaucer
Serenissima
Toboggan Hurry On Marcovil
Tout Suite
Glacier St. Simon
Glasalt (FNo.3-l)


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