Word: challedon
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...betting with Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Gilded Knight,* was still an overwhelming favorite-despite the mud-when 30,000 horse-enthusiasts crammed the mid-Victorian stands at historic old Pimlico, on the outskirts of Baltimore, for the 49th running of the Preakness Stakes. Second choice was Challedon, who had finished second to Big John in the Derby and was reputed to like sloppy going...
...favorite) at the first quarter, long-striding Johnstown streaked farther away from the field at every pole, breezed under the wire in a common gallop, with ears cocked as if wondering what had happened to the rest of the gang. Six lengths behind was W. L. Brann's Challedon, one length in front of Jock Whitney's Heather Broom. El Chico, on whom some million dollars were probably wagered in winter books, finished out of the money...