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The Test Of The Champion: California Chrome Makes A Run At History [LIVE]

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: californiachrome; triplecrown
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To: dfwgator

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.


101 posted on 06/07/2014 4:10:40 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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To: yield 2 the right

Looks like the name’s available.


102 posted on 06/07/2014 4:11:46 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: goonie4life9

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.


103 posted on 06/07/2014 4:14:31 PM PDT by discostu (Ladies and gentlemen watch Ruth!)
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To: yield 2 the right

I’ll volunteer to be the jockey but there may be a lot of dieting involved.


104 posted on 06/07/2014 4:14:57 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: dfwgator
This is why winning the Triple Crown is truly a big deal, it should be hard.

yep....just like the grand slam in golf & tennis is hard.

105 posted on 06/07/2014 4:15:22 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Cuomo and Costas. I’m outta hear.


106 posted on 06/07/2014 4:17:15 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: dfwgator
I hope the horse is OK. They are often run to death on the track, which is why I'll never watch another race. Remember Barbaro? And Eight Belles who came in second in the KY Derby and keeled over with two broken ankles?

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

107 posted on 06/07/2014 4:17:53 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: discostu

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).


108 posted on 06/07/2014 4:18:20 PM PDT by goonie4life9
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

no kidding...start the Kings game


109 posted on 06/07/2014 4:18:30 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: abb

There are Live threads covering sporting events on FR, so chill.


110 posted on 06/07/2014 4:20:06 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: goonie4life9

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.


111 posted on 06/07/2014 4:20:52 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: kjam22

Chrome probably is wondering what the fuss is all about, the owner on the other hand....


112 posted on 06/07/2014 4:22:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: goonie4life9; dfwgator
I think Sham was the only other horse to run all three in 1973. Watch those three races and witness Secretariat's magnificent performances. He was in an entirely separate class. That's how a Triple Crown winner runs. Beautiful.
113 posted on 06/07/2014 4:22:36 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: dfwgator

Lol... yep


114 posted on 06/07/2014 4:22:46 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: goonie4life9

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.


115 posted on 06/07/2014 4:26:25 PM PDT by discostu (Ladies and gentlemen watch Ruth!)
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To: discostu

Imagine if Golf made it so that only the same players play in all four Majors.


116 posted on 06/07/2014 4:27:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: yield 2 the right
What do you think of California Chrome’s remarks?

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.

117 posted on 06/07/2014 4:28:54 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: jjotto
“Banana coming up though the bunch.”

"Bubblegum, sticking to the rail....."

118 posted on 06/07/2014 4:30:59 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
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To: kingu

My Dad bet him too..said he was fresh & liked Rosario on board..


119 posted on 06/07/2014 4:32:33 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: yield 2 the right

he's dominating the net right now...that's for sure

120 posted on 06/07/2014 4:34:50 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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