New York Times' sportswriter Mike Tierney;
California Chrome's connections resisted the urge to retire him to stud, and on Saturday the crowd showed its appreciation with nearly constant cheers. A few hundred people shoehorned themselves into an area in front of his paddock stall, recording the moment with cellphone videos and snapshots, as if the horse were a runway model.
Initially, at least, the owners' decision to keep racing him was vindicated with a showing that was solid, if not as inspiring as that of Shared Belief, whose pedigree suggests he might have a higher upside at stud.
If it wasn't for the downside of being a gelding.
Ummm, are you referring to the California Chrome that won the Kentucky Derby? If he really is a gelding, it seems a lot of people don't know about it, unless he was gelded quite recently.
One example from last June:
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85468/california-chromes-stud-future-looks-tricky
Shared Belief is the gelding.
Probably just transitioning to a mare like Bruce Jenner...
The creame of sports writers I suppose.........
When Tierney writes that Shared Belief's pedigree "suggests he might have a higher upside at stud" he was referring to the card game. Shared Belief's sire and dam, Candy Ride and Common Hope, made over $25 million combined on the five-card stud circuit after they retired from racing.
And I'm guilty of failing to read carefully enough. Sorry.
You'd almost think I was a "journalist".
whats a gelding?
They've now posted a correction.
Say it was due to "an editing error".
A gelding is a horse less his testes.
Barack Hussein Owebama!
Anyone who would put a gelding out to stud should be working for the government.
A Gelding is a NYT sportswriter who cannot be bothered with learning facts...