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And the Sore Loser Award goes to.....

It was a race, and California Chrome lost. I didn't hear Coburn complaining before the race. Unbecoming.

1 posted on 06/07/2014 9:33:46 PM PDT by This Just In
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If a horse is truly deserving of the Triple Crown he will defeat all comers. Otherwise, they are not truly deserving of it.


2 posted on 06/07/2014 9:35:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Coward’s way out....Actually financially it’s very smart.

It costs a ton of money to enter a horse in a race, and if not running in the other two gives your horse a better shot at winning one, then it makes perfect sense.


4 posted on 06/07/2014 9:37:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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secretariat http://time.com/2843812/secretariat-triple-crown-belmont-stakes/


6 posted on 06/07/2014 9:42:58 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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There is no rule that a horse has to be run in all 3 events, entry into all 3 are totally separate things too.

This guy sounds like the biggest whiner since the Miami Heat fans the other day.


7 posted on 06/07/2014 9:44:47 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Coward’s Way Out....potential horse name? hmmmmm :o)


11 posted on 06/07/2014 9:46:37 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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One race in 3 weeks!The poor baby was run to the edge of complete exhaustion.


14 posted on 06/07/2014 9:49:38 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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I wanted California C to win...it had all the makings of a Seabiscuit story....but I’m sorry to hear the owner didn’t keep his mouth shut.

Even so, in a way he has a point. A ball team has to play the season, not just the last games. But the rules allow for what they did, fair or not.


17 posted on 06/07/2014 9:52:06 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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What bothered me (besides the sore-loser diatribe of California Chrome’s owner) was how NBC spent at least the first ten minutes of the post-race show interviewing the owner of the horse which finished tied for fourth, rather than the owner of the winner. They did do a quick interview of the winning jockey, but I got the impression that they wanted him to apologize for “spoiling” California Chrome’s Triple Crown.


26 posted on 06/07/2014 10:06:04 PM PDT by hanamizu
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Did the Marxist Media have to cancel their gay parade?


28 posted on 06/07/2014 10:09:08 PM PDT by bray (Palin/Putin 2016)
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Citation won 19 of 20 (yes, 20) starts in 1948. With all due respect to the admittedly faster Secretariat, Citation in his three-year-old campaign was the epitome of durability and stamina.


32 posted on 06/07/2014 10:11:26 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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How disappointing.

I kinda liked the owners after viewing all the media hype. Cool story. Humble, simple folks.

If the best they can muster is to be poor losers they have lost my respect


40 posted on 06/07/2014 10:26:24 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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What a horrible classless chump.

It is extremely difficult to win a triple crown. Horses don’t get a special group of peer to compete against in order to increase their chances of winning. Get over yourself.


52 posted on 06/07/2014 11:06:13 PM PDT by Yaelle
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What an idiot, his horse didn’t even run second.

Another one defeated by the Belmont, hey loser - you couldn’t make it in New York, so shutupalready!


59 posted on 06/07/2014 11:26:30 PM PDT by jocon307
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horseracing/2014/06/07/california-chrome-sustains-gash-to-foot/10188807/

California Chrome sustained a foot injury during the race.


64 posted on 06/08/2014 12:10:09 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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Secretariat won the KY Derby and Preakness in record times and went on to win the Belmont by 21 lengths. When you talk about great horses you think of War Admiral, Seabisquit, Citation and then the greatest of them all...Secretariat.


69 posted on 06/08/2014 12:53:35 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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74 posted on 06/08/2014 4:54:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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I don’t get this guy’s point at all. What makes the Triple Crown so elusive (and therefore such an achievement) is precisely that a single horse enters all three races and wins them all DESPITE having the disadvantage of racing all three races.


78 posted on 06/08/2014 5:35:45 AM PDT by dinoparty
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Coburn is just the latest to go from America’s sweetheart to the devil and the media will have a field day with this. He knew damn well that there is no requirement for any Triple Crown horse to run all 3 races, he has a horrible case of sour grapes. The media likes nothing better than to build someone up and then totally destroy them. (re..Tiger Woods, among others). Read all the stories prior to the Belmont glorifying him and now we will get a week’s worth of how he purposely ran over a turtle in the road once and ripped the tags off all his mattresses..Heat of the moment comments to the media are their bread and butter.


82 posted on 06/08/2014 6:11:21 AM PDT by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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Unbecoming.

(((
I agree. I don’t follow horse racing — or any sport, for that matter. But I do know that nobody likes a sore loser. Even if what he says is true, he should just accept his loss with dignity.


83 posted on 06/08/2014 6:34:31 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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I guess “Dumb-Ass” is an apt name after all.


84 posted on 06/08/2014 6:43:17 AM PDT by Holen1
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