The Made For A Movie Story Of California Chrome

If you loved the story of Sea Biscuit you will love and cheer for California Chrome.

His story starts back in May of 2008 in Baltimore County, Md. The Fasig-Tipton horse sale for 2-year-olds in training.

Greg Gilchrist, representing an ownership group in Northern California, bought California Chrome’s Mom.  They didn’t buy her to breed they bought her for $30,000 to race. However, Love of the Chase, Chrome’s mama didn’t run well at all and was sold off for only $8000.00. by a man named Scott Sherwood and Dumbass Partnership's history began.

And the Stuart Palley / Special to Bleacher Report sums it up this way:

An unlikely story? Everything about California Chrome's story is unlikely. Consider the following:

• The horse's owners, who are almost as new to racing as their star 3-year-old colt, named their two-man venture "Dumb Ass Partners," a sarcastic nod to those who thought they were clueless. Their purple and green racing silks sport the image of a male donkey. (Jackasses. Get it?)

• The horse's jockey, Victor Espinoza, grew up learning to ride in Mexico City on—you guessed it—donkeys. (He is no jackass, having won the 2002 Kentucky Derby on War Emblem.)

• The horse's trainer, 77-year-old Art Sherman, who has never had a Kentucky Derby starter, stands to become the oldest trainer to win the race—and perhaps the only Derby trainer to have worked betting windows in his off-hours to help make ends meet.

I love it.  You Go Chrome!