6/7 (BEL): 146th Belmont Stakes (All G1 Stakes P6)

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by pointman

What a shame to see California Chrome's owner Steve Coburn making a complete fool of himself post race. What a sore loser.

That was embarrassing! I was shocked watching that tirade! What happened to sportsmanship and congratulating the winner? Geez.

Congrats to whoever had Tonalist on top. I didn't.

Happy for Joel anyway.

Thanks for the fun times, California Chrome.

[3kings]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

That was embarrassing! I was shocked watching that tirade! What happened to sportsmanship and congratulating the winner? Geez.

Congrats to whoever had Tonalist on top. I didn't.

Happy for Joel anyway.

Thanks for the fun times, California Chrome.

Agree with all of this. That was sad, they were lovable small pocketed owners, but in the end they showed there lack of class.

[Merlinsky]

Haskin tweeted: "California chrome grabbed a quarter. Took good chunk out of his foot. Likely out of the gate." That blasted gate. Can't blame him as much then if that hurt his chances, but it's not like Tonalist didn't have own excuses for not being in the first two races. Maybe Chrome would've had to tangle with him and we wouldn't be talking about CC as a dual winner.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

Haskin tweeted: "California chrome grabbed a quarter. Took good chunk out of his foot. Likely out of the gate." That blasted gate. Can't blame him as much then if that hurt his chances, but it's not like Tonalist didn't have own excuses for not being in the first two races. Maybe Chrome would've had to tangle with him and we wouldn't be talking about CC as a dual winner.

Hope its not too serious. War admiral almost was retired after his Belmont, he'd removed such a large piece at the break.

So very glad the tc circus is over.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Danzig

Hope its not too serious. War admiral almost was retired after his Belmont, he'd removed such a large piece at the break.

I could see some people taking the easy money and selling to stud right now, but these guys might be so mad they'll give him time off and come back. This horse's TC record and breeding make me wonder about his stud future because there are ways this has shaken out in the past that scream regional sire or Japan. The article they wrote in Bloodhorse about it got all kinds of nasty snark from people who blamed all kinds of things like East Coast bias and it was just ridiculous. It's a fact, he's not a blue blood. Nice looking horse though. Hope wherever he ends up he gets a shot. Grandsons of Pulpit won all 3 legs of the TC. Pretty impressive. Tonalist has more of a stallion's pedigree though, but blue collar horses have gone on to make their get into blue bloods so I'll root for Chrome like I rooted for Tiznow. That worked out just fine.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

I could see some people taking the easy money and selling to stud right now, but these guys might be so mad they'll give him time off and come back. This horse's TC record and breeding make me wonder about his stud future because there are ways this has shaken out in the past that scream regional sire or Japan. The article they wrote in Bloodhorse about it got all kinds of nasty snark from people who blamed all kinds of things like East Coast bias and it was just ridiculous. It's a fact, he's not a blue blood. Nice looking horse though. Hope wherever he ends up he gets a shot. Grandsons of Pulpit won all 3 legs of the TC. Pretty impressive. Tonalist has more of a stallion's pedigree though, but blue collar horses have gone on to make their get into blue bloods so I'll root for Chrome like I rooted for Tiznow. That worked out just fine.

Luckily for race fans, breeding is depressed right now. And with CCS lack of pedigree on top of most people going to the tried and true horses, there won't be much in the way of offers in my opinion.
Give him a break, and we'll see him again hopefully sooner rather than later.
The horse didn't seem to be flagging, instead he seemed to thrive from racing, so I hope he won't be gone long. Lots of good races in his future I think.

[Aly-Sheba]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

That was embarrassing! I was shocked watching that tirade! What happened to sportsmanship and congratulating the winner? Geez.

Congrats to whoever had Tonalist on top. I didn't.

Happy for Joel anyway.

Thanks for the fun times, California Chrome.

While I agree he shouldn't have said what he did, but I kind of find it refreshing that someone wasn't pc for change.