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Sports
May 24, 2014 16:19:35 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 24, 2014 16:19:35 GMT -5
We have heard a lot lately about "California Chrome." (the horse!!!) Here's a fun story: If grace under pressure is the key to California Chrome’s racing success so far, he had it in spades during an impromptu race with an opossum Friday.
The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner was training at Belmont Park when a opossum ran onto the track, keeping abreast of the Triple Crown hopeful.
“It didn’t faze him,” assistant trainer Alan Sherman said, according to the New York Daily News. “He better outrun a possum.”
Though it’s unclear who was ahead out of the stretch, Sherman said the unexpected competition didn’t affect California Chrome’s mile-and-three-quarter training run.
The horse’s confidence may come being based in Los Alamitos, Calif., where Sherman added that coyotes run around the horse’s home track on occasion.
The Belmont Stakes is June 7.To see the picture, click here.
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