Elmont, N.Y. -- All week long, the big green door at Barn 26 was
wide open. In the mornings leading up to the Belmont Stakes,
journalists and photographers could get a real good look at
California Chrome as he was being walked around after morning
exercise. The horse would stop, pose for pictures. This was just
too good of a story.  Saturday night, as the sun was about to go
down, that same door slammed shut after California Chrome went
through it after losing his Triple Crown. The fuzzy feel-good
jive was gone.  Art Sherman, the grandfatherly trainer who had
been so entertaining and accommodating since the Kentucky Derby,
didn't feel like talking. He sent his son and assistant, Alan,
to a post-race presser with jockey Victor Espinoza to explain
what had gone wrong in Belmont 146.  I can understand why Art
didn't feel like talking. His shot, probably his only shot at
something big like this, was gone.  I don't know how to explain
what was going on with Steve Coburn, one of the co-owners of
California Chrome.