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Steve Coburn is 100% correct If your Horse
can't make in the Kentucky Derby you can't enter the Belmont Stakes ~
It's All or nothing It's not fair to the horse or to the jokey either
and California Chrome has run all three races and the other horses this was there first that is just not right .... No wounder why there not been A Triple Crown in 36 years......
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California Chrome faces fresh field in Triple Crown bid
June
6, 2014: California Chrome, winner of the 2014 Kentucky Derby and
Preakness Stakes, gallops during morning workouts at Belmont Park in
Elmont, New York.REUTERS
6, 2014: California Chrome, winner of the 2014 Kentucky Derby and
Preakness Stakes, gallops during morning workouts at Belmont Park in
Elmont, New York.REUTERS
NEW YORK – Chrome craziness set
in at Belmont Park Saturday as the hours ticked down ahead of the
horse's bid to end racing's 36-year Triple Crown drought.
California Chrome, the chestnut colt with four white feet and a
modest pedigree, was on the verge of making history or becoming just
another miss. The track was expecting more than 100,000 people to show
up.
Fans had already jammed the grandstand by midday. Purple nasal strips
emblazoned with California Chrome's name were being sold to fans two
for $5. The sales were a nod to the horse's bid to get permission to
wear the strips to open up his nasal passages in the Triple Crown's
third and final leg.
California Chrome owner Steve Coburn signed hats, posters and
programs tossed to him in his box seat. Fans also snapped up free
posters that read "Triple Chrome."
It's been a smooth run so far for California Chrome through the first
two legs of the Triple Crown. His backstory -- owned by a couple of
working stiffs who spent $8,000 on a mare they bred to a stallion for
$2,500 -- earned him a legion of fans who loved to cheer for the
underdog.
His owners were called "dumb asses" by a trainer for buying a mare
who gave no indication that she could produce a standout offspring who
could run fast. California Chrome parlayed trouble-free trips in the
Kentucky Derby and the Preakness into victories, setting the stage for a
possible sweep.
The 1 1/2-mile Belmont, known as "The Test of a Champion," is the
longest of the three races in the series. And, in many respects, the
cruelest.
Only 11 horses have swept the three races, Affirmed the most recent
in 1978. Since then, 12 horses have captured the first two legs without
completing the equine hat trick.
There is a quiet confidence in the California Chrome camp that they possess the long-awaited Triple Crown champion.
"The horse is doing great, I couldn't ask anything more from him,"
said Alan Sherman, the assistant trainer to his father Art Sherman. "I'm
looking forward to the race. I think if he runs his race, he's going to
be pretty solid."
About 5:30 a.m., California Chrome hit the track to jog around the
sprawling oval, stretching his legs before returning to his stall for
the long wait until the Belmont was run in the late afternoon.
By all outward indications, Chrome's camp has every reason to feel
confident. Since the Preakness, California Chrome has not missed a beat.
His one workout was terrific, the morning gallops strong and steady,
the appetite hardy.
California Chrome will face 10 rivals around "Big Sandy," Belmont's deep and often tiring track.
"I feel more confident coming into this race than I did any race,"
said Art Sherman, who at 77 is overseeing the best horse of his career.
"I'm getting pumped up."
The Belmont could be a redemptive moment for jockey Victor Espinoza,
who saw his bid for a Triple Crown aboard War Emblem end in defeat at
the 2002 Belmont after a stumble at the start.
"It has to be a super horse to win that," Espinoza said.
Those looking to play spoiler include Commanding Curve. He rallied
from 18th in the Kentucky Derby for finish second, only 1 3/4-length
behind California Chrome.
Commanding Curve skipped the Preakness, getting an additional two
weeks of rest for the Belmont. He is owned by West Point Thoroughbreds, a
partnership headed by Terry Finley.
While everyone wants to win, deep down most wouldn't be too upset seeing a Triple Crown winner.
"Sure, we'd love to win," Finley said. "We're like most of the other connections, we want California Chrome to win if we don't."
Louisiana Racing Commission Chairman Jerry Meaux killed in car accident on Thursday
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on April 24, 2014 at 9:36 PM, updated April 25, 2014 at 3:01 PM
According to the accident report, Meaux was struck by a vehicle around 1 p.m. Thursday on Hwy 342.
"Troopers say around 1:00 p.m. Thursday, Blaire Duhon, 22, was driving west on Hwy 342 when for unknown reasons she crossed the center line," the report said. "Investigators say Duhon hit another truck, driven by Jerry Meaux, 74, head-on. Troopers say Meaux was not wearing a seat belt, and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Lafayette Parish Coroner."
"May your prayers go out to the Meaux family! Jerry Meaux was just killed in a auto accident he was our chairman of the la racing comm!," said Louisiana jockey Gerard Melancon via Twitter on Thursday.
A
funeral Mass for Meaux will be at 1 p.m. Monday at St. John the
Evangelist in Lafayette, La according to the Daily Racing Form's Mary Rampellini.
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