he's dominating the net right now...that's for sure
Posted on 06/07/2014 2:55:54 PM PDT by Pajamajan
California Chrome is about to run in the Belmont Stakes, known as The Test Of The Champion.
I’m not quite sure that is it. Every other sport requires “equal” competition nearly from the get-go and once you start in a sequence, you generally have to finish the sequence.
Looks like the name’s available.
It is equal competition. All the horses are professional horses participating in multiple races through the year. To get the Crown you have to beat the other horses in these three, which could be any set of horses. What’s silly to me is how few of these contenders bother with the proper setup. No horse has ever won the Crown that hadn’t previously won at Belmont, and yet hardly any of these folks putting their horses in the Derby bother to run at Belmont earlier. Then they win two, then they get to the hard one, the long one, and they lose. That’s why the Crown’s not getting won, owners aren’t properly prepping their horses.
I’ll volunteer to be the jockey but there may be a lot of dieting involved.
yep....just like the grand slam in golf & tennis is hard.
Cuomo and Costas. I’m outta hear.
The day was not supposed to end in death of another great racehorse.
Perhaps if the wounds of losing Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro were not so fresh there would not be this feeling of "Here we go again." Perhaps the shock would not have been so severe.
Eerily, Barbaro's trainer, Michael Matz, saw another one of his horses, Chelokee, injured Friday at Churchill Downs with the same injury as Barbaro, a broken lower leg.
More at http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/horses/2008-05-04-eight-belles-cover_N.htm
If the horses are so used to running, why take them out of the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness? Seems to me some owners are more interested in being the “spoiler” than anything else. That takes a lot of the joy out of watching, especially for casual fans (comes across more like, as Rush Limbaugh says, phony, plastic banana, good time rock and roll).
no kidding...start the Kings game
There are Live threads covering sporting events on FR, so chill.
I dunno.... you got a horse that you don’t think can win all 3 so you don’t enter all three. The guy won a lot of money today when he won Belmont. That’s a good reason to work a good strategy. California Chrome hasn’t figured out that not all of horse racing is about him.
Chrome probably is wondering what the fuss is all about, the owner on the other hand....
Lol... yep
To run in other races. To make money. The owners are interested in making money. Race horses are an investment, they get a winning career then get bred. What would be phony is to limit the Preakness to only Derby runner and the Belmont to only runners of the previous two. That would be a deliberate construct to try to create a Crown winner. Each race has their rules for entry largely independent of each other, a Crown winner has to beat them all.
Imagine if Golf made it so that only the same players play in all four Majors.
Sour grapes is what my wife said. The rules didn't change in the middle of the contest. It is something to talk about, but maybe not when your horse just losses. I had Tonalist to win. Just history and rest, with a very experienced jockey on board.
"Bubblegum, sticking to the rail....."
My Dad bet him too..said he was fresh & liked Rosario on board..
he's dominating the net right now...that's for sure
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