California Chrome Winner in 140th Kentucky Derby

 Andrew Beyer, Sunday, May 4, 2014

May 4, 2014

Louisville, KY  |  The 140th Kentucky Derby was won by California Chrome - his rider/Jockey Victor Espinoza.

In almost every respect but one, California Chrome’s victory in the Kentucky Derby was satisfying and heart-warming, a triumph for the little guy that fans and the media always relish.

The colt’s co-owners, Steve Coburn and Perry Martin, are so self-effacing that they dubbed their modest racing operation “Dumbass Partners” and feature a donkey on their racing silks. Trainer Art Sherman, 77, was asked a thousand times to retell the story of how he rode to Louisville in a railroad boxcar with Swaps for the 1955 Derby. He had waited nearly six decades for his chance to come to Churchill Downs as a trainer.

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