Saggy beats Citation [Pictures]

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Saggy, during his stud days, was photographed with Gene Fisher, his groom at Country Life Farm in Bel Air, where the horse lived most of his life. (AEGIS file photo, Homestead Publishing)

On April 12, 1948 at the old Havre de Grace Race Track, an unheralded colt named Saggy beat the future Triple Crown winner and future racing immortal Citation in an upset whose story still captivates Maryland racing fans 65 years later.