{"id":1241,"date":"2014-06-07T23:35:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T23:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2014-06-07T23:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T23:35:05","slug":"the-unfairness-of-the-belmont-deals-blow-to-california-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"The unfairness of the Belmont deals blow to California Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Terry Mosher<\/p>\n<p>Editor, Sports Paper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Coburn is right. Only those horses that have enough points to qualify for the Kentucky Derby should be allowed to compete in all three Triple Crown races. I know the co-owner of California Chrome sounded like sour grapes after his horse was denied the Triple Crown with a fourth-place tie in the Belmont Stakes, but he is absolutely right. Be a man, run in all three and let\u2019s see who the best horse is.<\/p>\n<p>Belmont winner Tonalist and the second place horse Commissioner did not run in the Derby or the Preakness and Medal Count, which placed third, did not run in the Preakness, \u00a0and that is the rub. They were fresh and California Chrome was not. It\u2019s unfair. Make all the Belmont contenders run in the Derby and Preakness<\/p>\n<p>Coburn is right on this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper &nbsp; Steve Coburn is right. Only those horses that have enough points to qualify&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mosher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}