Hot Spot

Citation, after galloping off with the $50,000 Tanforan Handicap, "cooled out" like a sound horse. But Trainer Jimmy Jones was suspicious: "He didn't seem to run as kindly as usual. Arcaro had to whip him repeatedly. When Citation is good, you don't have to touch him with a whip." Last week, three days after the race, Trainer Jones found the trouble.

Citation's left front ankle had developed a hot spot, which Jones described as "a slight seepage of joint secretion." It wasn't enough to force an ordinary horse out of competition, but Jones was taking no chances with his wonder horse. He loaded Citation on an express car for Florida and three months of rest and treatment. The news left some Southern Californians sorer than Citation's ankle. They wanted to see him run in two $100,000 races at Santa Anita.

Southern Californians were unconsoled when Jones said that he might enter one of Citation's crack stablemates--Free America--in Santa Anita's $100,000 Maturity Stakes. That would be like getting Lana Turner's sister on a date you thought you had with Lana.

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