California Chrome 2 down and 1 to go

[Doomsday101]

BALTIMORE California Chrome repelled one challenger and then put away another in the stretch to win the Preakness on Saturday, setting up a Triple Crown try in three weeks.

The chestnut colt with the four white feet will attempt to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes, something that hasn't been done since Affirmed in 1978. Since then, 12 horses have won the first two legs and failed to complete the sweep; the last was I'll Have Another two years ago.

Maybe the horse with the modest pedigree and average Joe owners is the one.

http://www.app.com/story/sports/horses/2014/05/17/preakness-stakes/2226568/

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Nose strips?

 

[Doomsday101]

Nose strips?

Belmont will allow him to wear the strips

 

[Phoenix]

They pretty much had to relent and allow for the nasal strip. Perhaps if he had not won the first two triple crown legs then they wouldn't have, but the chance for a crown winner for the first time since, what, '78? (Affirmed) is just too grand to pass on I would think.

 

[Doomsday101]

Secretariat greatest of all time.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Secretariat greatest of all time.

You might say that Secretariat's Sir, Man O War was the greatest, certainly a very small class we are talking about here but I doubt you would get much strong argument either way.

Thanks for posting that Dooms. Just watching it game me chills.

 

[Doomsday101]

You might say that Secretariat's Sir, Man O War was the greatest, certainly a very small class we are talking about here but I doubt you would get much strong argument either way.

Thanks for posting that Dooms. Just watching it game me chills.

well no horse has better the time at the 1.5 mile Belmont, the record still stands 2:24

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

well no horse has better the time at the 1.5 mile Belmont, the record still stands 2:24

Yeah, I know, but the thing they say about Man O War was that he was so fast that most times, he never even ran hard at the last of the races he was in because he was always so far ahead. I don't know if that's true or not but anyhow, as I said before. That discussion is maybe two or three horses tops. If anybody said Secretariat, I would not argue the point real hard. That was a great great horse.

 

[Doomsday101]

Yeah, I know, but the thing they say about Man O War was that he was so fast that most times, he never even ran hard at the last of the races he was in because he was always so far ahead. I don't know if that's true or not but anyhow, as I said before. That discussion is maybe two or three horses tops. If anybody said Secretariat, I would not argue the point real hard. That was a great great horse.

I agree. There have been a handful of special horses Man O War clearly was one and only 11 triple crown winners. Man O war not one because was pulled from the Kentucky Derby

 

[burmafrd]

Yeah, I know, but the thing they say about Man O War was that he was so fast that most times, he never even ran hard at the last of the races he was in because he was always so far ahead. I don't know if that's true or not but anyhow, as I said before. That discussion is maybe two or three horses tops. If anybody said Secretariat, I would not argue the point real hard. That was a great great horse.

Secretariat did things no other horse ever did or has done. He raced a mile and a quarter (Kentucky Derby) where each quarter mile was faster then the one before- never done before or since. I have never read of any horse racing expert that thought any horse in history could have beaten Secretariat that day in June of 1973. He was in the best shape of his life and healthy and if you read William Nack's superb book about Secretariat even the people there before the race realized that he was really on it. He broke sharper in the Belmont then he ever did in his entire career. Turcotte almost had to hold him back the whole race; he hand road him the last sixteenth of a mile to get the record; other then that he pretty much just sat there.