Tag Archives: California Chrome

Taylor Made Farm is bursting at the seams with over 500 horses, mares, foals and yearlings, on its 1100 acre breeding farm near Nicholasville, Kentucky. The colts and fillies born...

Turning for home with a 1-1/2 length lead and a head full of steam in last year's Breeders' Cup Classic, it seemed like a mere formality that California Chrome would...

At 5:30am on Monday morning, polo champion Nic Roldan and friends arrived at Gulfstream Park outside Miami to meet The Champ himself, California Chrome...and what an experience it was. We...

California Chrome was voted 2016 Horse of the Year, an honor which he also won in 2014, at the 46th Annual Eclipse Awards ceremony at Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino...

If "April is the cruelest month", as T.S. Eliot famously wrote, then January may be the coolest month for horse racing fans, and not just because of the plunging temperatures....

California Chrome is heading to stud in 2017 and will stand for a fee of $40,000, Taylor Made Farm's Duncan Taylor announced on Tuesday. The 5-year-old will remain in training through...

The crowd was ready. Packed into every nook and cranny of the Santa Anita grandstand on Saturday to witness America's horse, their horse, take his rightful place in the winner's circle...

I'm not a blueblood. At least not in the racing industry. My father was not a famous trainer. My mother did not own Secretariat. My brother has never tacked up...

The NTRA has its poll, and we have ours. And our poll is longer, stronger and righter. Horse Network's Top 12 Racehorses in North America   1. California Chrome 5...

Bursting from the gate as if someone stole his feed bucket, California Chrome hustled to the lead under Victor Espinoza in the GI Pacific Classic, and just like that, this race...

The NTRA has its poll, and we have ours. And our poll is longer, stronger and righter. Horse Network's Top 12 Racehorses in North America 1. California Chrome 5 yo...

Five horses broke from the starting gate in Saturday's San Diego Handicap at Del Mar, but as expected, the 1-1/16 test quickly became a duel between a pair of chestnut...

Around the world and back again, California Chrome returns to action this Saturday in the (GII) San Diego Handicap at Del Mar. It will be the colt's first start since...

Champion California Chrome will be running for much more than bragging rights and big checks in the future. His connections have pledged a portion of the colt's future earnings will be...

It has been an eventful few years for California Chrome. Two years ago the cal-bred chestnut lit up the Triple Crown trail with wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness...

Like any good vacation, it must have felt like it took California Chrome forever to get there. Although, in his case, it kind of did. After smoking the rest of the...

The 2016 Dubai World Cup belongs to California Chrome. The 5-year-old put in an absolutely brilliant, dominating effort over the 1-1/4 mile dirt course at Meydan. With Victor Espinoza in...

A year ago, Art Sherman found himself coping with the sinking reality that his time with his champion was through. The 78-year-old racetrack lifer who conditioned the Cal-bred colt California...

California Chrome—certified American Hero—The People's Horse—The Triple Crown Slump Buster—staggered home in yesterday's Belmont Stakes in a tie for 4th. Deflating, to say the least, but not unfathomable, if you've...

Here is your 2014 Kentucky Derby winner folks, at the ripe age of one day. Who could have known this undeniably cute but otherwise nondescript chestnut born almost 3,000 miles...