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Recalling Challedons Hollywood Cup Score Shipping a horse 3,000 miles is risky business, especially when he is to meet one such as Swaps. In 1940, Challedon ran third in the Massachusetts Handicap and, when we ran into Lou Schaefer two days later, we asked him what his plans were for the crack Brann horse. He answered:: "Right now! he is on his way to •California for the Hollywood Gold Cup." As the world knows, Challedon was taken off the train and given a short spin over the track and went on to win the Gold Cup. Both Challedon and Schaefer came back to Saratoga where his horse won the Whitney in a desperate effort against Isolater, the colorbearer of the same Belair Stud that is now under discussion. That night, Lou came to this writers hotel room and said: "That western trip took a lot out of Challedon." There is no sense in Nashua and Swaps meeting unless both are at their peak. Why should one horse be shipped 3,000 miles when it would be much fairer to both if they met in Chicago, a central point, where both have engagements.
