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1996 Arlington Citation Challenge - Cigar : CBS Broadcast

He carried 130 pounds, spotting his opposition 8 to 14. He broke from the outside post in a 10-horse field, with only a 200-yard run to the first turn. He was carried six horses wide into that first turn. He was still four-wide on the other turn. The trump card for this horse, though, is that he's Cigar. Cigar won again Saturday. His 16th consecutive victory tied Citation's record, and on his way from the box seats to the winner's circle, owner Allen Paulson said: "He's the most for-real horse in the world." In a race that was created to bring Cigar to Arlington International, the negatives mounted as Paulson's 6-year-old made his way around the track in the $1.07 million Arlington Citation Challenge. The horse inside Cigar in the gate, Unbridled's Song, didn't break sharply. An extra horse on the inside, Eltish, unexpectedly joined the early scramble. Then Dramatic Gold floated out on Cigar and his jockey, Jerry Bailey, on the far turn. "I didn't think this horse was going to reach his limit today," Bailey said. "But he took all the worst of it. As a result, we might have seen just how great he is." Feeling Bailey's whip twice after they made the lead with an eighth of a mile left, Cigar won by 31/2 lengths over Dramatic Gold, running 11/8 miles in 1:48 1/5. He paid $2.60, with no place and show betting, and he earned $750,000, increasing his record total to $8.8 million. But the record that counted in front of 34,223, the second-largest crowd at Arlington since the track was rebuilt after a 1985 fire, was Citation's. The great Calumet horse won 15 in a row in 1948, returned after an injury to win one more in 1950, and no horse since then had been able to touch that streak. Now the record - for a North American-based horse since 1900 - belongs to Citation and Cigar, and Cigar will be able to break it when he runs next, in the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 10. "If he's in the same league as horses like Citation and Secretariat, I don't know what more you can ask of a horse," said trainer Bill Mott, who has nursed Cigar through foot problems all year. "He carried 130 from the 10 hole and he was good enough. When he left the quarter pole, he was getting away from the other horses, but he had to work for it. He was a convincing, convincing winner." Dramatic Gold, winner of one race in two years, finished second. Third was Eltish, who was a neck behind Dramatic Gold and 2 lengths in front of Honour And Glory. The other trailers, in order, were Tenants Harbor, Dr. Banting, Jambalaya Jazz, Polar Expedition, Unbridled's Song and Wild Syn. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996...