Bleacher Report: Triple Crown Mystique Lives on as California Chrome Falls Short at 2014 Belmont

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Art Spander in California Chrome, Triple Crown, articles, horse racing

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

Such an impossible dream — a bargain-basement $8,000 horse, virtually flying in, some sort of mythical Pegasus, to take the Triple Crown and save the troubled sport of racing.

"A fairy tale," said one of the colt's owners, Steve Coburn. But in this tale the wolf blows down the brick house. In this tale the frog never becomes a prince.

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