I'm not a horse person but I always like the annual three big races in the Triple Crown. My knowledge of horse racing extends to an annual bet with my cousin on the Kentucky Derby where I usually pick the inner of the Arkansas Derby automatically and he picks some longshot and if one of our horses places in the top three we buy the other one a case of beer the next time we go fishing.
But the reaction of the owner of California Chrome to his loss in the Belmont kind of makes sense in a weird sort of way but then reality kicks in and you realize he's just a sore loser.
None of the other great Triple Crown winners had the advantage of running only against horses that had earned the points to race in the Derby and had run it. They took on all comers in progressively longer and tougher races and sometimes in vastly different track conditions and they beat them all. simple as that. The reaction of the owner is disappointing because it reflects on the horse, who is obviously a really good friggin' horse.
BKB
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I don't profess to begin to understand the "breeding" of the thoroughbred but I once "wondered" why the times haven't improved over the years like in all (most) "human" sports. Seems the gene pool is pretty shallow and virtually every one in existence today can trace its breeding back to one horse. Due to "line breeding" the horse today are very much the same horses they were 200 years ago.
