sorrel horse ranch - 2014-06-04 11:41 AM


Well after the race is over you can come to my house I have the first two races recorded.   

run n rate - 2014-06-03 3:38 PM Sweet!!! I didnt' mean to miss the Derby, it just happened that way so then I HAD to miss the Preakness on purpose. When Smarty Jones won the Derby and the Preakness I missed the Belmont because the damn cows wouldn't travel down the trail, they just kept going in circles...I know to this day he lost because I was looking at the backside of about 800 stupid mother cows who couldnt' find their babies and head to greener pastures.

Kcaughran - 2014-06-03 1:48 PM I think he can do it!!!..just read this. Fernando takes it all the way back to the lineage of Betty Derr – the previously mentioned "blue-hen mare" who was born in 1928 and begat a long line of girl power in the breeding shed and on the race track. Fernando and Roman made a big deal out of the fact that a former champion juvenile filly named Numbered Account is present in two places in Love the Chase's bloodlines – making her "intensely inbred" in the pedigree nomenclature. Numbered Account was one tough mother on the track and as a dam, producing plenty of runners with notable stamina. And that is a key: If you want to win classic races of longer distances like the Derby (1¼ miles), the Preakness (1 3/16) and the Belmont (1½), your horse generally must be bred for staying power. "There is a reinforcement of stamina from Numbered Account," Roman said. "There's a hell of a lot of stamina within the dam to indicate why he's doing what he's doing at classic distances." .. View gallery . Exercise rider Willie Delgado plays with California Chrome. (AP) Lucky Pulpit brings some rich blood to the equation as well. His granddad was A.P. Indy, the 1992 Horse of the Year who may have won the Derby that year if not scratched because of a minor injury the day of the race. He has sired a succession of studs. A.P. Indy's father was Seattle Slew, winner of the 1977 Triple Crown. And the immortal Secretariat is one more generation back in the ancestry. "It's like a Who's Who," Fernando said. "Heavy stamina sires stacked on top of each other." But the underappreciated link on that side may be California Chrome's grandsire, Pulpit. Although deceased for two years, Pulpit's progeny are proving to be prolific sires in their own right. Tapit is the leading North American sire in terms of 2014 earnings, at $5.7 million. Lucky Pulpit is third at $3.7 million – nearly all of which has been earned by California Chrome. By winter, California Chrome's success had led to Lucky Pulpit's stud fee quadrupling to $10,000 – and that was before Chrome won the Santa Anita Derby, Kentucky Derby and Preakness in breathtaking fashion. By the next mating season, his fee will have risen some more. And if California Chrome becomes the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years, his slow mom and short-winded dad will improbably be the premier power couple in thoroughbred breeding. Those laggardly finishes in cheap races at offbeat tracks will be ancient history for newfound breeding royalty.

run n rate - 2014-06-03 3:51 PM Perfect, because all I have is Sorrel Horses :-) You do realize when you get me you get my brood too??? Right?

Bob - 2014-06-03 5:18 PM  The first two hats are for California Chrome Team Members only. The last hat is for the general public. Go California Chrome!

missroselee - 2014-06-05 7:38 PM I'll be the odd ball out and say I don't think he's going to win it.  I hope I am wrong, but I don't see it happening. 

sorrel horse ranch - 2014-06-03 8:03 PM


That sounds cool!  You bet bring them all.  Sad thing is when my stud horse died in January (my last sorrel and last horse I had) I swore I wouldn't have another horse.  Well that lasted until about 3 weeks ago.  I absolutely fell in love with a horse advertised here on BHW.  Thought I couldn't live without him.  Guess what color he is.......Bay.......but I love him!