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| I saw the medial side right front where his heel was bleeding. You can see it on the video where they're leading him back to his barn. From the pic at the break showing the outside horse stepping on him they're fortunate the laceration wasn't worse. |
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Location: fun meter pegged OK | stayceem - 2014-06-07 9:47 PM  I dont see a picture of the injury?
Follow it down about 3/4s of the way it will say posted/updated 36 mins ago
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| kramerica - 2014-06-07 9:24 PM
Can someone explain how long the "fresh" horses have been coming in to the Belmont? Is this something that has just started or has it been this way for 146 years? I am trying to understand this whole thing that CC's owner was talking about. I still love Chrome, he's a cool cat!
I to would like to know how it was in the 70s for the last triple crown winners, im pretty sure they ran against far fewer horses.  |
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| yankeeredneck - 2014-06-07 9:54 PM
stayceem - 2014-06-07 9:47 PM I dont see a picture of the injury?
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Location: fun meter pegged OK | I'm going to try to get the pic up
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| It's not like they didn't know the rules when they entered. If they were so concerned about it they shouldn't have entered. Had they won they wouldn't have cared. Just excuses and frustration for not winning. That's horse racing. It just wasn't meant to be. There are lots of races(horse races, barrel races, etc) that you think a favorite should win and they don't. Doesn't really mean anything except they didn't have it on that day and doesn't mean they won't win the next one. Just because you're "an underdog" doesn't give you a free pass to be unclassy. There's nothing worse than a sore loser. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | yankeeredneck - 2014-06-07 9:54 PM stayceem - 2014-06-07 9:47 PM I dont see a picture of the injury?
From that picture you can see that it looks like he ran down on his left front (burned the underside of his fetlock) maybe trying to get off his injured foot?
You never know how bad that can hurt a horse. We have had them be fine after something like that, but it can also end thier career. We had a filly get stepped on in a race, looked like a bad overreach but the impact did so much damage that a third of her coffin bone had to eventually be removed after it lost the blood supply and died off. Hope CC is ok and we get to see him run again. |
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| Itsme - 2014-06-07 9:54 PM
kramerica - 2014-06-07 9:24 PM
Can someone explain how long the "fresh" horses have been coming in to the Belmont? Is this something that has just started or has it been this way for 146 years? I am trying to understand this whole thing that CC's owner was talking about. I still love Chrome, he's a cool cat!
I to would like to know how it was in the 70s for the last triple crown winners, im pretty sure they ran against far fewer horses.
Mainly because nobody wanted to run against BigRed or Affirmed....LoL |
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| Thanks for posting the picture. My gelding did something very similar and it took about 4 weeks to heal because there was some flesh they wanted to reconnect. Hes been fine since (knock on wood) but it definetely took some time to heal. He did it during a run and it was the roughest ride and he definetely wasnt himself.
Almost makes it worse, you never know if this injury hindered him but you also never know what could have been if he had 4 good legs. |
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Location: fun meter pegged OK | Had the heart to run the race but no at full capacity. Articles are speculating this was his last race and will now be put up for stud. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | He ran down a little bit on the right leg too, not to mention it looks like the shoe was bent some. There is no way that horse had been running down in races past or he would have been wrapped. |
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Location: NM | I so disagree with you 3 to Go!!! Who are any of us to judge this man for saying something right after a dream is lost!! I have agreed with not letting horses who did not qualify for the Kentucky Derby for years!! I still love Chrome and his owners no matter what!!!!!!
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| Dreem_Chazer - 2014-06-07 10:37 PM
I so disagree with you 3 to Go!!! Who are any of us to judge this man for saying something right after a dream is lost!! I have agreed with not letting horses who did not qualify for the Kentucky Derby for years!! I still love Chrome and his owners no matter what!!!!!!
Has the triple crown always been run this way???? Or did you used to have to qualify and use the same 20 horses? |
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Location: Where I am happiest | Nevertooold - 2014-06-07 10:18 PM
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| stayceem - 2014-06-07 10:47 PM
Dreem_Chazer - 2014-06-07 10:37 PM
I so disagree with you 3 to Go!!! Who are any of us to judge this man for saying something right after a dream is lost!! I have agreed with not letting horses who did not qualify for the Kentucky Derby for years!! I still love Chrome and his owners no matter what!!!!!!
Has the triple crown always been run this way???? Or did you used to have to qualify and use the same 20 horses?
There is really no such race as the Triple Crown. It is a term for three separate races. Each has it's own rules. The term Triple Crown was made up by the press. Until 1950 they did not even have a trophy for it. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | aqhabarrelchic1 - 2014-06-07 9:54 PM
Wow this is a scary picture, its a wonder that the other horses didnt catch CC's shoe and CC go down. I say that the Jockeys were really lucky that there was not a accident. |
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| jbhoot - 2014-06-07 11:31 PM
stayceem - 2014-06-07 10:47 PM
Dreem_Chazer - 2014-06-07 10:37 PM
I so disagree with you 3 to Go!!! Who are any of us to judge this man for saying something right after a dream is lost!! I have agreed with not letting horses who did not qualify for the Kentucky Derby for years!! I still love Chrome and his owners no matter what!!!!!!
Has the triple crown always been run this way???? Or did you used to have to qualify and use the same 20 horses?
There is really no such race as the Triple Crown. It is a term for three separate races. Each has it's own rules. The term Triple Crown was made up by the press. Until 1950 they did not even have a trophy for it.
But the big dispute about allowing fresh horses into the other races... at some point was that not allowed?? Trying to understand the fuss |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Sometimes you need to step back and look at the whole picture. Today the Dumb Ass Partners weren't blessed with a win but they were sure blessed that California Chrome walked off the track today. The angels were looking down as this was about to be one horrible wreck.  |
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