30/12/2022
THAT'S THE WAY IT USED TO BE!!!
This is an original photo of Calumet Farm horses being unloaded from railroad cars as they arrive at Santa Anita for the 1949 Winter Racing Season.
Citation is the horse on the right.
Thirty horses were in the shipment.
In addition to Citation, there was:
Ponder: the 1949 Kentucky Derby winner;
Bewitch: the 1947 Champion Two Year Old Filly and the 1949 Champion Handicap Mare and the only horse to defeat Citation as a two year old;
Wistful: the 1949 Co-Champion Three Year Old Filly;
Two Lea: the 1949 Co-Champion Three Year Old Filly and the 1950 Champion Handicap Mare who was the dam of Tim Tam, the 1958 Kentucky Derby winner and through her son On-and-On factors in the dam line of the great sire Alydar.