Steve coburn interview

Instead of all the focus on this idiot hick Coburn, and his ridiculous cry baby comments. How about some praise for the connections of Tonalist. In a game where the horses are mistreated pretty regularly, the owners and Clement chose to take it slow with Tonalist not get hung up on the Kentucky Derby and rush their horse into certain races just to get points and it definitely paid off for them. That was the path they chose for their horse and any idea of having to run in all 3 races or run in none of them is completely absurd. 

Well said

Atleast my bus is regular length.

Your "1 horse away from hitting my superfecta" is a pretty meaningless statement in this game. 

Closer than 99% of people. Meaningless? Sure. 

My lady keeps my tongue worked out. No time for windows "evil jenny"

Steve Colburn never mentioned the FRESH HORSES or triple crown rules when he was ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. 

Plenty of time to recoup between these 'extremely physically grueling' games.  Golf--not a physical game.

[Quote: Originally Posted by angrybarber] [/Quot)    You totally make my point, especially the ones made in post #51....You praise Clement for not running or even EARNING his way onto the TC trail....totally, totally unfair, but n your cowardly eyes, you think it's smart......probably is..but TOTALLY unfair...Hell Tonalist wasn't even good enough to earn points to Qualify

I dont get all the Coburn bashing, especially the mean name calling by some posters on here.  We can all agree or disagree with what he said or how he said it or when he said it, but the man apologized.  Yes it was 2 days later but he apologized and I thought it was heartfelt.  Some of you with all the name calling act like you've never done anything wrong or made mistakes in anything you do.  His mistake was making the comments in front of millions of people.  At least he had the balls to say what a lot of others are thinking.   Everyone is allowed to make some mistakes or bad decisions people, get over it.  At least we know hes passionate about the sport and his horse.  Just my 2 cents. 

[/Quot)    You totally make my point, especially the ones made in post #51....You praise Clement for not running or even EARNING his way onto the TC trail....totally, totally unfair, but n your cowardly eyes, you think it's smart......probably is..but TOTALLY unfair...Hell Tonalist wasn't even good enough to earn points to Qualify [/Quote]

There will be no substantial change in the Triple Crown, which is just the way it should be.  Let's not cheapen the achievements of Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed and the others.  A triple crown winner should have been able to beat the best 3 year olds in America, at three different tracks, at three different distances.  Not just limited to the 19 other three year olds who were most qualified on the first Saturday in May, but any and all comers who wanted to take their shot on Preakness Day as well as Belmont day. If these proposed rules were in effect years, Man O War, arguably the greatest dirt horse of all time, would not have been able to win the Belmont. Fact is, Chrome wasn't good enough, just as the rest of the 2 out of 3'ers weren't. It appears that the only people complaining are racing newbies and know-nothings.

Yes but Medal Count did not run Preakness.  Tonalist, Medal Count, and Commisioner only ran 2 races since start of May I think.  The point is still the same that the guy is making---no horse that ran all 3 triple crown races beat CC in Belmont.

Of course they won't do what CC has already done---by definition.  He won 2/3 TC races---gonna be hard to top that unless they go on to win BC, etc.

CC may have run slow KD--but people forget he ran a fast Preakness---which may have contributed to slow Belmont.

Not saying CC is elite at all---just saying it is easy to see both sides of this issue.

Maybe it should be like the NBC from a few years ago. 5,3,1 or whatever it was for each place in each race to reward the top horse in the three races.  Maybe then some of the other horses would be encouraged to run all three races.  You would have some guys who, of course, realize they could not win the TC and would target just one or two of the races, like Tonalist or Medal Count, etc.  But it might make it more interesting.  

I asked before and never saw an answer and haven't bothered to look it up.  Did those horses run against others targeting a specific race?  Or does anyone know off the top of their head? 

Secretariat and Affirmed had 4 opponents. Seattle Slew 7

 Thanks. Don't know if fewer equals less formidable---haha!  Thanks though.

This is one of Coburn's points....disrespectful cowards didn't run in any earlier TC races but instead waited for the Belmont "ambush" 

Smarty Jones faced 4 horses that skipped the Derby and Preakness