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![]() I was quite disappointed with the performance of California Chrome today, in the Belmont Stakes. It marked the twelfth time within the last 36 years that a thoroughbred has entered the Belmont Stakes with a chance to secure the Triple Crown--the first one since 1978--and failed.
But California Chrome's finish--a dead heat for fourth place--begs the question: If the horse had finished, instead, in a dead heat for first place, would that have counted as a Triple Crown? I really do not know the answer to this. Does anyone else?
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![]() IMO the real loser at todays race was the whiny owner of Chrome. Blamed everything and everybody for the loss except a bad trip causing his horse to lose.
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![]() There actually is a Triple Crown Trophy. (It has been brought to New York--for the Belmont Stakes--on 12 occasions since Affirmed's Triple Crown victory in 1978. But on each of those 12 occasions, it went unclaimed.)
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![]() You are correct. It's been so long ago that I had forgot about it.
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Still, I think he was basically correct: Those horses that appeared in neither the Kentucky Derby nor the Preakness--noe in any other races during that time period--were surely very rested, and in a position, therefore, to upset a superior horse. But some things are still better left unsaid--especially at a moment that was never designed to be reflective and analytical, but should have been reserved, instead, for the winner's owner and supporters to bask in a moment of glory.
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