Quote:Here's hoping California Chrome wins the Triple Crown today.  As a Kentuckian, I'm hoping this California horse wins it all.  For all those uninitiated with California, the Central Valley represents the farmers, ranchers, and blue collar salt-of-the-earth folks not typically associated with the state.  This horse is a great story.

 

The horse is a great story in a time when the sport really needs one. 

 

When I was a kid, I had an opportunity to go to Belmont with my grandfather.  I was a little kid, but I still remember going to see Secretariat run.  I was 5 or 6 years old.  My grandfather used to go to Belmont all the time because he loved the horses, and where they lived was 20 minutes from the track.  I still have pictures with my grandfather, my dad, and my brothers at the track.  In one of them, Secretariat is in the background as they were walking the horses out of the paddock for the race.  Pretty cool. 

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