Winning Ways

No racing stable had ever had such a profitable day. At crowded Pimlico, to nobody's surprise, Calumet Farm's mahogany-colored Citation galloped off with the Preakness and $91,870. None of the five horses that had chased him in the Kentucky Derby bothered to try again.

Only one of the three new ones that went after second money ($20,000) got close enough to make it interesting. When Vulcan's Forge threatened to, Jockey Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17) gave Citation a couple of whacks. He paid 1 to 10, the minimum permitted under Maryland law.

Next objective for Citation: the Belmont Stakes.

At Jamaica, last year's Preakness winner, Faultless, carried Calumet's devil-red and blue silks home by a nose in the Gallant Fox Handicap ($60,300). The horse he beat was his stablemate, Fervent (second money: $15,000). Calumet Farm's receipts for the day: $167,170.

Other noteworthy performances last week :

P: At Fresno, Calif., two of the world's swiftest sprinters -- Southern California's Mel Patton and U.C.L.A.'s Lloyd La Beach -- matched strides. Despite a desperate try, La Beach just failed to catch Patton at the tape. When the time was announced, the crowd gasped. It was a new world's record for 100 yards: 9.3.

P: At Oxford, Ohio, Negro Harrison Dillard set a new kind of record by winning his 67th consecutive race in collegiate competition. The old record-holder for consecutive triumphs: Notre Dame's once great two-miler, Greg Rice.

P: On Boston's Charles River, Harvard's once-beaten crew won the Eastern Championship over nine rivals and thus boosted its chances of becoming the U.S. Olympic choice. Yale, ahead until the final few yards, was second. Harvard's big rival is now unbeaten Cornell. Cornell had kept a date with unbeaten Wisconsin on Lake Mendota, won by half a boat length.

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