re: So Cali Chrome's Jacka$$ owner just tarnished the entire story with his reaction

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Give me some throwback looking grass horses. Lots of bone and substance to them.

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that's exactly what they did with the first 5 triple crown winners. Wirlaway was by a empson darby winner.


go get you some non mr prospecter euro blood.

Not to mention everything the yearlings are given to get them sale ready. I hate that.

And 2 year old sales are worse. Young horses pushed way too hard to run sub 10 second times in march that usually have to be stopped on for a while after purchase.

Owner's point was very valid and would probably get a lot more people interested in horse racing by limiting the field so the casual fan could follow the triple crown easier. Takes an outsider to let the enlitists know.

Also made a fricking shite ton of money at the fair grounds today thanks to betting it all on the one horse who had won at the Belmont before.

no, creating / breeding / training horses that are good enough to actually win a triple crown will bring fans back tot he sports, not changing the goalposts.


I was at the breeders cup blame / zenyatta. that place was packed and it was cold as shite lol. the entire sports world was buzzing. you had 2 heavyweights.

what i hate about horse racing you take all the starts out of the game, you train shite horses, you bred shite horses, then complain that no one wants to watch. shite I don't want to watch sometimes lol.


I watch just about as much assuie racing as i do US racing and from top to bottom it's 10x a better product than american racing is. they race more, the quality is better, the fields are fuller, no drugs, no cheating, etc.

I had a healthy bet on blame in that one.

Still love that picture as they hit the wire.

It is fun to watch runners from everywhere. You see Australia win today? I loved his mom ouija board. Glad she's finally got a good one running.

Love me some Oujia Board

you mean wild ride? yeah that's a good book. really good. damn i want to red it now lol. that needs to be a movie.


The hole in the owners argument is that even when you are rested.. YOU'RE SLOW. it's not like these "new shooters" came in and were setting the house on fire. all of you are staggering home lol. they just staggered less.


I would have a little bitg more sympathy if every year these new shooters were coming in and running sub 2:28 belmonts and stuff lol but they aren't. Horses that are good enough to run sub 2:28's in the belmont are good enough to be in the derby and usually are.


There are only 2 types of "new shooters


1. the horses that weren't good enough to get in the derby. You should beat them

2. horses that for whatever reason could not ake the derby but are there now ready to run. That was like today.


The owner acts like there are a bunch of high class grade 1 horses on the sidelines waiting to take on the derby winner like it's a video game or something lol. If you can't beat a horse staggering home in 2:28 and 3 then you don't deserve the triple crown.

But this is what we do in society these days. Don't like or understand the rules (casual fans) we demand change. Look at what happened to NASCAR. After Earnhardt's death, more media and casual fans started paying attention to NASCAR. Shortly after the media started demanding a change to the way NASCAR crowned they champion. After a while NASCAR caved and gave us this "chase" which has ruined racing for me. It completely changed the sport. Or course media outcry changed other rules in NASCAR that helped push me away.

Get ready, some media figure is going to take this rant and run with it and demand a change and the the TC will be so watered down no one will care anymore.

Keep this year's three year old field in perspective. If Secretariat had run the same time in yesterday's Belmont, the margin of victory would be pretty close to the same as 1973.