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jl 1 ] ] 1 1 i 1 i 1 j 1 : i : ! • : ; 1 i , : 1 i ! i I . ! 1 j j I . ! 9 3 MARYLAND THINKS WISHFULLY Old Line State Has Not Furnished a Preakness Winner in Years. Challedon May Be First Home-Bred to Win in Many Seasons — Has Plenty of Backing:. BALTIMORE, Md., May 4.— Maryland hasnt had a Preakness winner in years; in fact more years than any Maryland er would care to mention or even remember. But that is history and will be accurate history until the afternoon of Saturday, May 1 J — Preakness Day at Pimlico. On that day the natives in the land of oysters, good horses and pretty girls, confidently expect to see two, possibly three, Maryland-owned thoroughbreds going postward in the forty-ninth running of the Preakness. And it wont be sentiment alone that sends them to the barrier for the candidates are real contenders.. Principal and most exciting interest will be centered upon Challedon, owned by W. X.. Brann of Frederick, Maryland. This colt, winner of three Futurities last autumn, including the Pimlico Futurity, is as much a son of the Great Free State as are the descendants of the Carrolls, the Calverts and the Stewarts. Victory in the Preakness would place him in the local hall of fame i alongside the illustrious founders of the little colony on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Challedons sire, Challenger II., came to 1 these shores from across the Atlantic to mimic his human counterpart, the Calverts, et al, in establishing a long line of descendants who would do great things. Challedon is the first of his sons to be put to the test of proving the superiority of this line. GOOD CHANCE. The chances of the Maryland-bred aspirant for thoroughbred immortality are par-1 [ ticularly well regarded, even beyond the 1 borders of his native pasture. The Hard-1 " Boots of Kentucky, who quake at the thought of any but a Kentucky-bred winning their Derby, have publicly and wisely proclaimed Challedon as one of the horses to beat in their race. Owner-breeder Brann has a justified confidence ] in his colt, based principally on stellar performances as a two-year-old in important I races more nearly approximating the classic distances of the Preakness and Derby than the distances at which most juvenile ! events are decided. Trainer Lou Schaefer, who was astride ! the Preakness winner, Dr. Freeland, in 1929,-has outlined a campaign for his charge ; ; which will first see him under colors at Havre de Grace in the Chesapeake Stakes, then the Derby if all goes well and the [ climax at Pimlico on Preakness Day. Georgie Seabo, able pilot of Challedon in his three stakes victories last year, knows , ] the horse and knows the story behind him; the hopes and ambitions held for the son of i t a new Maryland family. And Seabo knows how to ride, how to keep out of trouble and what to do and when to do it. The result is up to Challedon. A great horse should prove his greatness independ- ently of trainer, owner and jockey. And to win the Preakness you have to be, as the rail birds say, "all horse."
