Word: challedon
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year-old Cravat (famed Johnstown was retired last month because of a mysterious wheeze). Challedon had won eight out of 14 starts this year; Kayak, seven out of nine; and Cravat had finished...
Favorite was Challedon. Though a year younger than his rivals, he had already earned more money ($242,000) than either of them, had already broken the world's record for a mile-and-three-sixteenths. More important to sentimental, superstitious racing fans, the big bay colt was bred at nearby Walkersville, had always shown a fondness for the Pimlico track. There he turned his first big trick, when he won the Pimlico Futurity as a two-year-old. There he became the darling of Maryland by beating undefeated Johnstown in the Preakness last spring...
Last week at Pimlico the fans got their money's worth. After the first furlong Cravat was out of the running: it was Challedon and Kayak. Challedon went into the lead; halfway down the backstretch Kayak caught him, poked his brown nose farther & farther ahead as they streaked along against a backdrop of autumn foliage. As they rounded into the homestretch, Jockey Eddie Arcaro flipped his whip and Challedon began to run like a Halloween hooligan. He inched past Kayak and won going away, a half length in front at the wire...
...Singing "Challedon, my Challedon" (tune of Maryland, My Maryland) 25,000 hoarse-voiced fans saluted the Horse of the Year, a worthy successor to Seabiscuit and War Admiral. It looked as if young Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt had chirped a mouthful...
Last fortnight, after three more sensational victories (in the Belmont, the Withers and the Dwyer Stakes), and two record-breaking trials, railbirds were beginning once more to hail Johnstown as one of the great horses of all time, when he was beaten again by Challedon in the Arlington Classic at Chicago. If Johnstown recovers his lost prestige at Saratoga (and most turfmen think that he will), William Woodward may have another great champion to retire to stud...