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CITATION Through his Belmont Park triumph became the eighth horse to win the coveted American Triple Crown Citation Toys With Belmont Foes to Win Triple Crown Equals Stake Mark of 2285 To Beat Better Self by Eight Escadru Third to Calumet Champion Mr Busher Is Victor in National Stallion StallionBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y June 12 The cheers began for Citation at the eighth pole and rose to a resounding roar as the Calumet Farm champion drew away from his seven rivals near the end of the eightieth Belmont Stakes coa coaMng Mng under the wire eight lengths before Ing Ranchs Better Self who finished well to take the place by a halflength from W L Branns Escadru Citation was smoothly ridden by Eddie Arcaro who looked back for possible challengers in the stretch but found none The son of Bull Lea Hydro ¬ plane II paid a surprisingly liberal 240 as he erased the last trace of a doubt that he was a really good horse by covering the mile and a half in 228y5 equalling the stakes record set by Count Fleet in 1943 and accomplishing the task with quite as much ease as Airs Hertz star starC C V Whitneys Vulcans Forge finished five lengths out of the money in fourth place followed by A J Sacketts Gaspar illa William Helis Salmagundi Belair Studs Golden Light and Glen Riddle Farms Faraway Citation earned 77700 bringing his total earnings to 544700 544700Citatons Citatons earnings for the young season total 389020 nearing Assaults record for earnings by a threeyearold which were 424195 gleaned over the entire 1946 sea ¬ son sonOwing Owing to the size of the field there was across the board wagering on the Belmont with Citation returning 230 to place and 210 to show Better Self paid 370 to place and 210 to show while backers of Escadru also received the minimum There was a moderate minus show pool of 304180 304180Leigh Leigh H Battson president of Santa Anita presented the August Belmont Memorial Cup to Warren Wright owner and breeder of Citation in the winners circle while Mr Wright presented the working press with two cases of cham chamContinued Continued on Page Three Citation Toys With Belmont Stakes Foes to Account For Triple Crown7 Beats Better Self by Eight And Equals Record of 228 228s s For Mile and Half Fixture FixtureContinued Continued from Page One Onepagne pagne which was ordered before the field went postward postwardBefore Before the wine was opened veteran ob ¬ servers agreed that Citation could do any ¬ thing that any thoroughbred has ever been able to do Eddie Arcaro shared this opin ¬ ion saying that he believed Citation could do a furlong in 11 flat at any stage of any race at any distance distanceThe The crowd was comparatively light 43046 checking through the turnstiles in hot sultry weather weatherCitation Citation broke first from his inside stall as the field left the gate directly in front of the stands in the Belmont The ground apparently broke from under the colt but Arcaro literally gathered him up and he strode away freely Faraway went right with Citation in the run to the clubhouse turn with Salmagundi Escadru Gaspar illa Better Self Vulcans Forge and Golden Light strung out behind them themFaraway Faraway continued to force the pace as Citation covered the first quarter in 24 and the half in 48 moving along at an even clip Half way down the far side Faraway began to shorten stride and Gas parilla made a move along the rail that carried him into third place while Escadru began to gain ground on the outside outsideArcaro Arcaro let out a notch nearing the far turn and quickly drew away to a daylight lead as Escadru charged into second place on the outside Faraway bore out as he tired and dropped out of contention while Better Self began to move up along the rail and Vulcans Forge closed some ground from the rear rearCurving Curving into the stretch Arcaro kept Citation well off the rail and was scrub ¬ bing mildly to check any tendency to loaf The champion veered the merest trifle as he came to the junction of the chute and the stretch when Arcaro looked back but continued straight and true to the wire adding to his lead as though inspired by the admiring throng throngBetter Better Self had to squeeze his way into contention along the rail and finished very fast to pass Escadru in the final yards It was the latter however who provided the one fleeting instant of anxiety as he drew within about three lengths of Citation be ¬ tween calls but it was soon obyious that nothing was going to disquiet theleader theleaderThe The Belmont gave Citation his 18th vic ¬ tory in 20 starts and made Arcaro the first jockey to win the Triple Crown twice Eddie accomplished the feat on Calumets Whirlaway in 1941 1941Maine Maine Chance Farms Mr Busher de ¬ lighted the throng by parading to an easy victory in the first running of the colt divi ¬ sion of the National Stallion Stakes draw ¬ ing away in the final furlong of the five furlong dash on the Widener course to beat William Helis Emulate by two lengths Circle M Farms Foray Vina was only a head away at the finish and a length be ¬ fore E P Taylors Illuminable Ferril Zufelt shook his stick beside the chestnut colts head as he took the lead from Illum ¬ inable and Foray Vina at the eighth pole then sat still and let him run Mr Busher paid 340 and made it seem liberal as he skipped the distance in 57 57Illuminable Illuminable and Foray Vina led or the outside in the early stages while Mr Busher raced straight and true down the middle Emulate was also up on the outside with Eternal World running by himself in the middle of the pack followed by War ¬ monger Marabout who swerved at the start Repentance and Grumpito When Zufelt asked Mr Busher to run it was all over except for a bitter struggle for the place between Emulate and Foray Vina with the former prevailing in the final strides stridesMrs Mrs Elizabeth Graham acquired Bushers full brother for 50000 as a weanling a record price for a colt of that age and the same figure that Louis B Mayer paid for Busher at the end of her juvenile cam ¬ paign during the war years The son of War Admiral Baby League who looks like a larger edition of his illustrious sister was not broken until November last year and slill has considerable room for develop ¬ ment according to trainer Jimmy Smith who also developed Busher for the late Col E R Bradley BradleyIn In his debut last week Mr Busher ran the same distance in 57 but was aided by a tail wind The air was still today
