California Chrome's owner just blew any goodwill.
 

He should have congratulated the connections of Tonalist and then shut up.

I agree !!

His wife tried to shut him up, but he would have none of it.

Medal Count finished ahead of Chrome.

I seem to recall him running in the Derby.

America is soft....

Amazingly foolish. The good news is I don't feel so bad he lost

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Take your horse and go home. It's not fair.....wtf.

He blew it all in two minutes, the Jackass suits him just fine

Coburn will probably challenge Evans to a fight before he leaves the track.

Sore loser, big time!

A lot of the non-horse racing people on social media seem to think he made a good argument. All of the horse racing people strenuously disagree.

I don't condemn the guy toooo much. Obviously it's a tough moment to do an interview. But if a person is going to relish all the positive media attention as much as that guy has the past few weeks, he should probably be prepared to be at least a little gracious when the media comes calling in a tough moment.

He should have been more prepared, there's no situation where a No Comment won't suffice in expressing your feelings good or bad sigh...

He probably would've been gracious if he'd lost the Preakness since the Derby was his big dream and it came true. Then you don't win the Preakness but you're the little guy who had a great moment. He starts feeling his media oats, all of them telling him what a great story he is, and he starts to believe the hype. Despite the story and the press, though, this just didn't have the heat behind it that Smarty Jones, Funny Cide, or even Big Brown had. I don't think it was the California-ness of it all. Didn't stop Zenyatta hype. Not sure what to blame it on, but I did notice that.

My parents were all 'yeah he's right' and have always tried to grumble that not enough horses run in all 3 races, that they ought to require participation or something. I try to tell them that's not a thing and wouldn't work, but they never get it. I told them Tonalist and Commissioner's owners would've gone in the Derby if they could've, it wasn't like they ditched it with healthy points-eligible horses.

The ol' built-in, manufactured excuse as a defense mechanism.

Salt, if you ask me.

Do you really believe that the "Triple Crown Racing Gods" we're going to let him in the room?

I loved the horse and the story. In the end cheaply bred horse and owners.

The happiest people of all today are the blue blood breeders....last thing they wanted was some hick to spoil their party. I dont even know who the owners of that horse are but my guess is they are not some new shooter to the game and probably have some of that blue blood.

Coburn was awesome, sounded like lots of people I have been around at the track when their horse loses.

SO, it will be interesting to see if, after making such comments, if this crew will campaign Chrome in the other upcoming 3 year old races. Will they take on all comers at Monmouth, or Saratoga, or will they take their ball and go home to softer competition in southern California state bred races?

Why would they do that? The horse has proven he belongs in top tier racing. Of course you race him as such.

I doubt the comments lose him much goodwill. Of course he was devastated, a lot of people say things in the heat of the moment they later regret. In his view, it used to be horses ran in all three. So, most tc winners beat the same competition three times. Would affirmed have won the Belmont over alydar had the latter skipped the Preakness? An intriguing rhetorical question..