Love the Chase, dam of California Chrome, is in foal once again to Lucky Pulpit! You know the Corbuns are thrilled! 
And the cool thing is the owners of California Chrome own two full sisters!
http://www.anddownthestretchtheycome.com/2014/4/21/5628742/kentucky-derby-2014-contenders-california-chrome-pedigree
I wish she was in foal to Pulpit. Then he wouldnāt be dead.
I think they should name the next colt āNickā.
A short name but masculine and it fits.
I had it correct in the body of the message. Now corrected in header.
I loved Pulpit too. I love his sonTapit and had one of Tapitās sons. Amazing boy!
I know you got it right, I was just teasing.
What about this son of Pulpit? http://www.avalon-equine.com/baatesh.html
As to Love The Chase, has anyone heard why they bought her? What was it about āherā that made then buy her and not a more fashionably bred mare?
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What about this son of Pulpit? http://www.avalon-equine.com/baatesh.html
As to Love The Chase, has anyone heard why they bought her? What was it about āherā that made then buy her and not a more fashionably bred mare?[/QUOTE]
It was my understanding that Coburn and Martin were in a larger partnership that had bought Love the Chase for racing but when she wasnāt really doing that well, the larger partnership wanted to sell, so they bought her together.
I bet theyāre kicking themselves now.
Bless all the Little Guys (and Girls)
I assume you are referring to the larger partnership.
And I had thought the two partners had bought her at auction because they could afford her.
In any case, itās stories like this, that keep the little guy hocking his socks to breed and raise these horses. Iāve known so many of these little guys. Only they never made it big.
A bit more detail on her acquisition ā¦
Coburn began going to the races after meeting Carolyn in the mid-1990s; Martin, who lives in Yuba City, Calif., went to Arlington Park as a teen. Their paths crossed in 2008 when they each purchased 5 percent of Love the Chase, then an unraced 2-year-old filly, through a partnership called Blinkers On Racing Stable, operated by San Francisco businessman Scott Sherwood. (Martin first joined the partnership in '07; Love the Chase was Coburnās first horse.)
Love the Chase is a chestnut filly bought privately as a yearling by Cary Frommer, a pinhooker (an individual who buys young horses, breaks them and sells them for a profit) from Aiken, S.C. Frommer sold Love the Chase for a modest $30,000 at a sale in May 2008 to Northern California-based trainer Greg Gilchrist, who was representing Blinkers On Racing. She ran three races for Gilchrist and was routed by a total of 22 lengths. "She was small when we bought her," says Gilchrist, "and she never did grow. She [ran] her heart out, but she didn't have much ability."
Sherwood and his partners voted to put Love the Chase into $8,000 claiming races, where she could be purchased by anyone willing to pay. Coburn and Martin instead bought her outright and gave her to trainer Monty Meier for two more races; she finished up the track in both.
Martin says that a breathing problem was discovered after Love the Chase's last start. Meier says only, "She was a nervous filly, and she never ran very well for me. She was pretty-looking and fairly well-bred, but I never thought for a minute she would produce a monster like California Chrome."
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20140429/california-chrome-derby/#ixzz32NlX2HTM
and, from the same article,
California Chrome was foaled at Harris Ranch Horse Division in Coalinga, Calif., on a sprawling farm flush with ash, oak and almond trees. (He is a California-bred; no Cal-bred has won the Derby since Decidedly in 1962.) Because of the internal injuries suffered by Love the Chase in foaling, mother and baby were quarantined for several weeks; California Chrome nursed while Love the Chase was connected to a catheter through which she received antibleeding medication.
When he was 18 months old, Chrome began working out under Harris Ranch trainer Per Antonsen and instantly outran his pedigree. āVery precocious,ā says Antonsen. āSmart horse, nice way of going. I told the owners, āYouāre going to have fun with this guy.āā
The owners met for lunch at a restaurant in Galt, Calif., roughly halfway between their homes, to decide on a name for their horse. Coburn and Carolyn, and Martin and his wife, Denise, each wrote a name on a slip of paper and put the paper into Coburn's 10-year-old cowboy hat. Coburn asked a waitress to pick the slips out one at time, first choice to last. Steve Coburn's pick, California Chrome, came out first. (In horse racing, white accents on a horse's coat are called "chrome.") The Jockey Club accepted the name (the other options: Lucky At Love, Big Chapter and Seabisquik, an unfortunate riff on Seabiscuit).Iām glad Seabisquick didnāt end up being the name, but it would have gone hand in hand with Dumb Ass Partners. LOL
Iām indifferent about the name California Chrome. I donāt love it but I donāt hate it either. It is better than the 3 other options that were in the hat!
It is a name I can and will remember - I was AT the Derby the year SuperSaver won and could not remember his nameā¦nondescript at best. California Chrome would make a great showhorse name (when he is mine).
I have a sneaking suspicion the JC would have rejected āSeabisquikā (āBisquickā is a TM/SM), āLucky At Loveā is oddly enough not taken and wouldnāt be so bad, āBig Chapterā is kind of forgettable.
Letās hope that Chromeās sibs do better than Barbaroās brothers. Pictures of both are on the Harris Farm website, and those two are BUILT; no worry about not enough bone with those two.
California Chrome was the name of a Quarter Horse racer.
