Challedon
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Sire:	Challenger II
Grandsire:	Swynford
Dam:	Laura Gal
Damsire:	Sir Gallahad III
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1936
Country:	USA
Colour:	Bay
Breeder:	William Leavitt Brann
Owner:	Branncastle Farm
Trainer:	Louis J. Schaefer
Record:	44: 20-7-6
Earnings:	$334,660
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
New England Futurity (1938) Pimlico Futurity (1938) Maryland Futurity (1938) Preakness Stakes (1939) Arlington Classic (1939) Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1939) Pimlico Special (1939 & 1940) Hollywood Gold Cup (1940) Whitney Stakes (1940) Philadelphia Handicap (1942)
Racing Awards
U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1956) United States Horse of the Year (1939 & 1940) U.S. Champion Male Handicap Horse (1940)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1977) #38 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century Challedon Stakes at Laurel Park
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Challedon (1936-1958) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ... The Eclipse Award is a thoroughbred racing award. ... Thoroughbred race horses The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known as a race horse. ... Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ...

Racing at age two, Challedon won four of his six but was outshone by another colt named El Checo who was voted that year's U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt. At age three, under jockey George Seabo, Challedon finished 2ND in the 1939 Kentucky Derby, eight lengths behind future Hall of Fame colt, Johnstown. Then, in the Preakness Stakes Challedon won by a length and a half with the heavily favored Johnstown finishing off the board. For trainer Louis J. Schaefer, Challedon's win meant he became the first person to have both ridden and trained a Preakness Stakes winner. His feat would only be matched 30 years later by Johnny Longden. Challedon wasn't eligible to compete in the final leg of the U.S. Triple Crown and as such Johnstown had an easy time in winning the Belmont Stakes. However, Challedon's wins in eight other important races that year including a world record performance in the Tranter Purse raced at Keeneland, earned him the U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt honors and the most prestigious title of all: Horse of the Year. Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. ... The racecourse is a classical meeting point for the people of Chester. ... Churchill Downs racetrack, 1998 The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ... Johnstown (1936-1950) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who won two out of every three races he competed in. ... The Preakness Stakes is a classic 1 3/16 mile (1. ... John Eric Longden, born February 14, 1907 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England - died February 14, 2003 in Banning, California, was a Hall of Fame jockey. ... The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Triple Crown for short, but the term is also used in other sports, and thus the full name should be used when it could cause confusion) consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. ... The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious Grade I stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. ... Keeneland Race Course at Dawn There is also a town in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with the same name, unrelated to this article; for the town, see Keeneland, Kentucky. ... The Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Yr-Old Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually. ... The Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing. ...

In 1940, the four-year-old Challedon continued his winning ways, claiming victory under jockey George Woolf in the Hollywood Gold Cup, the Whitney Stakes, a second consecutive Pimlico Special, and the Havre de Grace Handicap. Challedon was voted 1940 U.S. Champion Male Handicap Horse and for the second straight year earned U.S. Horse of the Year honors. As a five-year-old, Challedon suffered a tendon injury and was bothered by cracks on the inside of a forefoot that saw him win no purse money and his season ended after just three races. The following year, Challedon returned to the winner's circle twice including in the Philadelphia Handicap but had lost his drive and was retired to stand at stud at Gallaher Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. George Woolf statue at Santa Anita Park George Monroe Woolf (May 10, 1910 – January 4, 1946) was a Canadian-born thoroughbred race horse jockey and the namesake of the annual jockeys award given by the United States Jockeys Guild. ... The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I Stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California. ... The Whitney Handicap is an American Grade 1 handicap race for thoroughbred racehorses three years of age and older run at a distance of 1 1/8 miles. ... The Pimlico Special is an American thoroughbred horse race held at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, home to the Triple Crown race, the Preakness Stakes. ... Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Male Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. ... A tendon (or fatty) is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone, or muscle to muscle and is designed to withstand tension. ... Horse breeding is the process of using selective breeding to produce additional individuals of a given phenotype, that is, continuing a breed. ... Nickname: Athens of the West Horse Capital of the World Location in the Commonwealth of Kentucky Coordinates: Country United States State Kentucky Counties Fayette  - Mayor Jim Newberry (D) Area    - City 739. ...

While not a spectacular success as a sire, Challedon did produce thirteen stakes winners before passing away at the age of twenty-two, after breaking a leg in his paddock. In 1977, he was inducted into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Sire can refer to several things: Sire is how one spells Eris backwords. ... The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...

References

• Challedon's pedigree and racing stats
• Challedon at the United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame