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Here and There j on the Turf ! ! ; Challedon Showed Early I Promise I , I Breaks Against Him in Eastern j ! Shore J Displayed Class at Narragan- j sett j Pimlico Futurity Effort His j ! Best j . j Among the smart set at Delaware Park last summer, the word went the rounds that Louis Schaefer was training a good colt for William L. Brann, Maryland sportsman who entered the sport a few years back with the purchase of Challenger II. along with R. S. Castle. Since that time Castle retired from the partnership, leaving Brann in sole ownership of the now eleven-year-old son of Swynford and Sword Play, by I Great Sport, and he is the breeder and owner of this colt the railbirds whispered to each other about last June and which, under the name of Challedon, won the seventeenth running of the Pimlico Futurity on Saturday. Challedon, a son of Challenger II., made the Pimlico Futurity his third successive victory in a row, having previously won the Maryland Futurity at Laurel and the New England Futurity at Narragansett Park, thereby establishing himself as one of the outstanding two-year-olds of the season. T. Schaefer, who as a jockey never had the good fortune of riding a Pimlico Futurity winner but figured in the history of the Maryland Jockey Club course in piloting Dr. Freeland to a Prcakness victory in 1929, gave Challedon his first racing lessons at Delaware Park early in July and the colt managed to finish third to Birch Rod and Buds Bell, neither of which is any slouch. In that outing, the son of Challenger and Laura Gal, by Sir Gallahad ILT. plainly indicated that he was in need of experience and even though he didnt start until two months later, the seasoning so obtained was a factor in his easy triumphs over seven other maidens at Narragansett Park in which he stepped the six furlongs in the reasonably good time of 1:12. Ten days later Challedon tried for the Eastern Shore Handicap but he had Number 13 post position in a field of fifteen and had no chance to overcome this disadvantage. Since his appearance in the Eastern Shore Handicap, in which the handicapper thought enough of him to assign him 116 pounds, seven more than carried by the victorious Time Alone, Challedon has gone undefeated. Carefully managed by the youthful, but nevertheless capable Schaefer, Challedon didnt start again until the Maryland Futurity, in which he came through with a serious stretch drive to garner first honors by a nose over War Moon. He Avas much better than his margin of victory would indicate, a fact that was thoroughly demonstrated in his next outing, the New England Futurity, and in the Pimlico Futurity this past Saturday. In the Narragansett event, the Maryland colt was given his chance to gain revenge on Time Alone, which had so thoroughly taken his measure in the Eastern Shore Handicap and he did so with his finest performance to date. The New England Futurity, being an af-fair of a mile and seventy yards, demanded of its contestants a display of quality and stamina, and he gave both to dominate decisively other such promising youngsters as Continued on twenty-seventh, page.. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Impound, Gilded Knight and T. M. Dorsett, in addition to Time Alone. The race proved that the last named was strictly a sprinter, a fact further borne out in the Walden running, but Gilded Knight later won the Wan-namoisett Handicap, and T. M. Dorsett went to Churchill Downs to march off with the last running of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. Impound, which finished second in the New England Futurity, came back to run fourth back of Inscoelda, Volitant and Ciencia in the Walden, but could do no better than fifth in the Pimlico1 Futurity. Challedon, therefore demonstrated that he could run fast and far in muddy going at that. The Pimlico Futurity offered Challedon the most severe test of his career and the fact that he came out of the engagement with colors flying is further demonstration of his far-reaching accomplishments. His opposition, perhaps, was the most formidable he yet had been called upon to face, as Third Degree, which finished second, a length and a half back of him, earlier had finished exactly the same distance back of Porters Mite, the victorious colt in the Belmont Futurity. Challedon was a struggling colt down in the deeper going along the rail in the Pimlico classic for the first half-mile, and he made his charge on the pacemaking Third Degree on the inside, although farther off the rail. But he continued to advance and overtook Third Degree a sixteenth out, drawing away thereafter to finish out the mile and one-sixteenth in 1:45, less than two seconds off the track record, but good enough considering that the track was not entirely at its best. So the smart boys at Delaware Park in June knew a good colt when they saw one, Challedon being a top colt even if not the equal of El Chico.
