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Show 1 : J ; i McLemore Says i! Challedon Better Than Half Length Which Beat Kayak By HENRY- McLEMORE BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 2 (UP) Full 'details of Challedon's Challe-don's victory in the Pimlico special are not yet available due to the fact that Eddie Arcaro, who rode him, is still digging himself him-self out from under the flowers. I - One unconfirmed report said that Arcaro had set up a florist ahop atop Challedon's back and ' was doing a brisk I business selling the blooms thati - were showered on the 3-year-old when he beat I Kayak II by half a length and Cravat by 10 In )the third of Al Vanderbilt's horse operas at course. Certainly no horse was ever , si - 700 or 800 pounds of shrubs and foliage up yesterday afternoon and didn't seem to mind it a bit. I don't know but what Challedon Challe-don could have carried that much poundage and still won the special. I say that even though I did pick Kayak II to lick him, and even though the Argentine speedster Honestly, half the hamlets, towns, boroughs, counties and precincts pre-cincts of Maryland had a wreath or blanket of flowers on hand at the track yesterday, and they all but smothered the colt with them when he reached the unsaddling ring. wjt only a scant half-length off the pace at the finish: Challedon was more than half a length better than Kayak II yesterday. yes-terday. He took It easy through most of the race and only in the stretch, when the Argentine made a serious challenge, did the Mary-lane! Mary-lane! pride turn on all he had. In that thrilling brush down toward to-ward the wire Kayak II was under the heaviest sort of punishment with Georgia (The Iceman) Woolf raking at his flanks with his bat Challedon needed only the gen-tlea gen-tlea sort of shaking up. When Kayak II pulled level and then stuck his nose out In front Arcaro whacked him two or three times. paid such a floral tribute as was- , Challedon after Edd, Arcar his great run of yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Born and bred in the roll ing hills of Maryland, he seems to belong more to that state than he does to the gracious W. L. Brann. I haven't been to a garden club meeting In years, but I counted 37 varieties of blooms draped all over the hone and the grinning Arcaro, including night blooming jasmine, honeysuckle and a spray of .lotus buds. There's no need to worry about Challedon's ability to carry weight when he grows a bit older he had |