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     Citation would end the year with Eclipse Awards for Three-Year-Old Male, Handicap Horse and Horse of the Year.

      After injury prevented him to race in the next year, Citation returned in 1950. Yet, he was never quite the same. Perhaps he would have been retired, but his owner W. Wright wanted him to become the first millionaire in thoroughbred racing. Although Wright never lived to see his great horse cross the million dollar mark, it would happen.

      Citation still raced against some of the greatest horses over the next two years, he would only visit the winner's cirlce a mere five times during his seventeen starts as a handicap horse. He won an allowance race, then the Golden Gate Mile (setting a world record of 1:33 3/5)in 1950. And in 1951, Citation won the last three races of his career, including the Golden Gate and American Handicap (beating Bewitch) and then the Hollywood Gold Cup by four lengths over Bewitch. Out of all his races that year, Citation would run his worst race in the Premiere Handicap at Hollywood, coming fifth, beaten just over two lengths. But non the less Citation ended his career on a high winning note, and became a racing icon.

    Citation would never sire any great horses such as himself, and has never secured strong ties in present bloodlines, but he would be best known for his racing, something that he was one of the best at. Not everyone can be good at everything, and Citation made up for his lack of luster in the breeding shed by giving racing such amazing memories.

Starts: 45       1st: 32       2nd: 10     3: 2
Earnings: $ 1,085,760

Won: Kentucky Derby                Flamingo Stakes
         Preakness Stakes              Derby Trial Stakes
         Belmont Stakes                 Everglades Handicap
         Jockey Club Gold Cup       Chesapeake Stakes
         Tanforan Handicap
         Pimlico Special                  Seminale Handicap
         Empire Gold Cup               Pimlico Futurity
         Sysonby Mile                     Futurity Stakes
         American Derby                Furturity Trail
         Stars and Stripes Stakes   Elementary Stakes
         Jersey Stakes

Placed: San Fernando Handicap
             San Antonio Handicap
             Santa Anita Handicap
             San Juan Capistrano Handicap
             Golden Gate Handicap
             Forty-Niners Handicap

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