California Chrome's owner just blew any goodwill.

[Seattleallstar]

Native Dancer, Nashua, Damascus, Riva Ridge, Bold Forbes, Swale, Risen Star, Tabasco Cat, Thunder Gulch, Point Given, Afleet Alex. They managed to run in all the races and put in nice performances in the Belmont

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Seattleallstar

Native Dancer, Nashua, Damascus, Riva Ridge, Bold Forbes, Swale, Risen Star, Tabasco Cat, Thunder Gulch, Point Given, Afleet Alex. They managed to run in all the races and put in nice performances in the Belmont

And your point is?

[DaTruth]

If you are going to call other connections cowards for skipping or missing the Derby and Preakness, then you should at least show up for one of the next two major dances.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

If you are going to call other connections cowards for skipping or missing the Derby and Preakness, then you should at least show up for one of the next two major dances.

There's only one triple crown.
As for major dances, he's danced in them. There are more, some of which are on the west coast. They live out there. It makes sense they'd run out there.
Or...I guess they can send him from barn to barn like ria Antonia.

Seriously, no matter what they do, there will be people complaining.

[Seattleallstar]

Originally Posted by Danzig

And your point is?

They won the Belmont just fine and ran in all the races, along with winning one of the other TC races

[richard burch]

seemed like it was just an emotional reaction. his horse ran hard and tried right to the finish line. be proud of your horse and jockey. 3 races in 5 weeks, mile and a half... just was to much for him.

[Sightseek]

Privman tweeted that Art Sherman fully expected Coburn to apologize today, but that Coburn went further into a rut today.

The highs and lows.....not everyone can handle them.

[ajphilly]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

Privman tweeted that Art Sherman fully expected Coburn to apologize today, but that Coburn went further into a rut today.

The highs and lows.....not everyone can handle them.

"@horseracinghl: Steve Coburn on GMA says "I stand by what I said.""

"@horseracinghl: Coburn adds "It says Triple Crown. Those 20 horses that run in the Derby should be the ones to run for the Triple Crown.""

"@horseracinghl: Coburn comparing having to run against fresh horses to playing basketball against a child in a wheelchair."

[jms62]

Originally Posted by ajphilly

"@horseracinghl: Steve Coburn on GMA says "I stand by what I said.""

"@horseracinghl: Coburn adds "It says Triple Crown. Those 20 horses that run in the Derby should be the ones to run for the Triple Crown.""

"@horseracinghl: Coburn comparing having to run against fresh horses to playing basketball against a child in a wheelchair."

And to think he was touted as being DAP's PR department yesterday by NBC.

[Merlinsky]

Oh I so called this. He's not sorry at all. I knew a guy like him just doubles down. He compared facing fresh horses to a guy like him playing basketball against a kid in a wheelchair? Uh. There were multiple reasons you could blame for the loss and the point is to show some grace and sportsmanship. Not blame others for a series you knew the rules of when you entered. He would've been happy to crow about beating the new shooters if he won. Only cared when he lost. Sucks that taking his ball and going home means no Chrome at Saratoga or Belmont this fall.

They did ask Sherman about Coburn and Chrome, and I disagreed with his comments about spacing the races but at least he was nice about it. I'd had a twinge of 'uh oh' when Sherman was asked how Chrome's doing after how so many horses start to tail off going into the Belmont. Sherman told NBC that he was doing 'better than I thought he would.' I figured it was surprise that he wasn't getting tired maybe because that plus the 'still gaining weight' comments from others seemed okay. In retrospect that was a odd way to put it. I talked myself into thinking it was just a weird way of saying he's doing well.

I will be so upset if these guys help provide impetus for changing the series. Really don't know that I'd feel like following the Triple Crown presented by Asterisk, esp. if it gives them the satisfaction and the 'we could've won if it'd been like this before.' If they get milked for PR in an effort to shift things, I'll lose respect for the people doing the shifting. Wasn't Phipps the one on NY's end?

[my miss storm cat]

Oh my ***** God I just read the comments from this morning...

Can they take one of Chrome's nasal strips and use it to sew his mouth shut?

Disgraceful and embarrassing behavior. What a classless idiot.

[ne to socal]

Originally Posted by Cardus

And just as bad will be how I suspect that he will be received when he returns home: "You showed 'em, Steve!"

I can pretty much assure you that didn't happen.