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

yea I thought he had a good point and I agree. you should have to run all three legs of it

I'm with you.

We would have missed out on some great moments.

Rachel's Preakness to name one.

Hell, ap indy scratched the derby the morning of the race. He wouldn't have been allowed.

Speech was super tacky and really turned me off to coburn

Dude has a point but its hard to feel sorry for a guy who uses an oportunity like that to rail against a sport that just put several million dollars in his pocket in the for of winnings and future stud fees and/or sale of the horse.

Dude is a pussy.

It is supposed to be very difficult. In the not so distant past, the Belmont was actually considered more important by horse people, because it was a true measure of a horse's ability to carry his speed over a distance. Breeders were often more inclined to breed to a Belmont winner. Part of our problem has been the predominance of Northern Dancer and Raise a Native blood in the gene pool. These were great sires who produced a lot of good horses, but they also produced a lot of unsound horses. The fact that we allow horses to race on medication should tell you something. For several years, horses could run on Lasix and Bute. Lasix is the only thing allowed now. Changes are being made to reintroduce sounder tougher horses. We do not need to change the format of the Triple Crown. Horses like Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed, etc. ran the series under the current format against all comers; they were great horses. California Chrome is not a great horse.

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Not a single horse that finished ahead of CC ran all three races.

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It seems the laws of gravity and physics don't serve the purists among us. We would allow no such advantage in human sport.

Actually, let me clarify what I mean by "tarnishing the story". This story wasn''t really about the horse. The feel good story was about the owners, salt of the Earth type people compared to the stereotypical wealthy horse owner(s).

The made for TV/movie story is about "normal" hard working people who purchased a horse for next to nothing and that horse nearly won the triple crown.

His rant and jackassery (pun intended) ruined the feel good story. Everyone, rich or salt of the earth, now has the impression that the owners are poor sports, terrible losers, and ironically....entitled.

Horse racing entitlement versus homegrown luck was and has been the storyline leading up to this race. These people and their horse weren't supposed to be a threat to the establishment. It was a classic rich versus "poor" David versus Goliath storyline that the average person could connect to. Ambition versus entitlement.

With his rant, he effectively showed the world that he became what he openly criticized...entitled. He became the establishment.

Bred for short flashes of speed, mature super early so lots of heft on young developing bones (mostly for the sales ring), and much more fragile than they used to be.

Horses used to run every week.

I think he's a great horse. Just look at what he's done this year.

Plus, he joins my favorite horse of all time with a loss on that Belmont (Sunday silence).

Maybe he'll take the breeders cup too!

You don't say.