Can Anybody Beat CA Chrome?

Perfectly put together horse?  Little more scope possibly. Even more size, maybe in an ideal world.  Personally would do without the white stockings making imo horses more vulnerable to fracture type injuries.  Everything else seems close to ideal--forearm cannon ratio, pastern angle, pastern length, bone thickness,back line and barrel length with head and neck in near perfect proportion.  Powerful enough hind end.  Distance between jaw seems more than adequate for breathing, etc. etc. 

 Horse overall looks like he can run and run fast. Confirmed by Chrome's vids showing unique and ground eating highly efficient galloping style.

Pedigree:

http://www.pedigreequery.com/california+chrome

Chrome has illustrious ancestors everywhere except for sire and dam, which btw also makes this such a great story.  Total of $10,000 combined in cost of stud fee and mare.
Other than the double Mr. Prospectors possibly combined with the one Danzig for unique speed, and the double Numbered Account, there's little here to particularly strike the eye compared to many others.  Precisely from were Chrome get's his looks--he seems to me sort of combo.

Training of Chrome--my brief glances have been skeptical even if Art Sherman is exactly where I myself aspire to be.  I ought to admire this dude, and do to an extent except I see little things that ultimately can make a difference that disturb--and, some are really little such as what appeared to me the horse's mild distress on the trailer Monday combined with the lack of human intervention to make him more comfortable to breezing the horse off of a pony warm up (see last breeze at Alamitos) causing stiffness of form in the initial part of the breeze.  Several times in his races the jock fails to put the horse on his left lead in the gallop out.  Again, little stuff except that these failures tend to cause injuries.

The training itself--what little that shows--seems superb and near ideal.  Those 4f breezes are actually 7f style with the gallop outs.  Sherman claims the horse on off days gallops 1 3/4 mile which might be a near ideal distance for the other work that's being done.

 One can guess that the horse with his many races is a snow ball rolling down the hill in gaining strength and experience. We can compare this to the Wise Dan situation where race builds on race and the trainer is sitting back there doing "what works"--at least "what works" to date.

I'll look with interest what is done with Chrome over the next couple of days.  Without looking at the rest of the field--what shows overall is a strong fast horse able to go hard for the distance.  Barring injury--and some few injury red flags are there as noted--it would be hard to imagine Chrome being anywhere except right in there near the finish line, and fairly easy to imagine at 2014 KY Derby runaway by CA Chrome.