Our Preakness Memories series reaches back to tell the stories of past Preakness winners. Here, 2014 winner California Chrome.
We loved “brash” Steve Coburn when California Chrome was winning. In defeat, he became a sore loser. That change says more about us than about Coburn.
California Chrome came from breeding a second-choice stallion to a mare whose sire was the “most available.” No wonder owner Steve Coburn feels blessed.
Preakness post positions were drawn and it turns out that everyone’s happy.