What bothered me (besides the sore-loser diatribe of California Chrome’s owner) was how NBC spent at least the first ten minutes of the post-race show interviewing the owner of the horse which finished tied for fourth, rather than the owner of the winner. They did do a quick interview of the winning jockey, but I got the impression that they wanted him to apologize for “spoiling” California Chrome’s Triple Crown.
I guess they were sore losers as well.
I thought they determined that Chrome wound up finishing 5th, it looked like the 4th place finisher just beat him out at the end.
That bothered me as well! They didn’t even list the order of the winners or pay any attention to them. It’s a flippin’ horse race: who won, who came in second, etc? And we want to congratulate the winner! All eyes were on the 4th horse and his owners the entire time.
The press hyped up the potential triple crown farrrrr too much. In the horse racing community, CC was not the favorite, though of course he was by the general public. I put a little bet on Chrome to win too, just because it is cool to have a Triple Crown winner, but if didn’t think it was that likely. ITS HARD TO DO.