I agree there should be only a selected choice of horses to run in each of the races and that is it. Like any other tournament...ie. Wimbledon...you can't just add more players as it goes...poor analogy but you get my meaning.
The thing is I am guessing it has always been like this for the Triple Crown and if owners, breeders etc. don't like it that way, then try to change the rules. This is why Secretariat and the others were so exceptional in my opinion. They took it with any and all that came to challenge them.
I also saw something that Chrome had a cut front right hoof...maybe that had something to do with the way he couldn't run the way he would normally.
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