Winner's Circle Of Friends

Stacks of photos are abiding on the attic of Denise Martin's chaotic California office, area she works in allure and thermal analytics. Some 180 afar to the southeast, Carolyn Coburn carries her pictures with her, and she shows them off to about anybody she meets in her rural Nevada community.

Starring in the two women's photos is the aforementioned subject: California Chrome, the admired to win the 2014 Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

The women met if they, forth with their husbands, purchased Chrome's mother, Adulation The Chase, in 2009. The Martins and Coburns had ahead been allotment of an buying accumulation in which they endemic 5 percent shares of Adulation The Chase. If that affiliation was about to dissolve, the Coburns stepped up to buy the horse, and the Martins absitively to join. For $8,000, the couples, who had never met, bought Adulation The Chase. Two years later, in 2011, California Chrome was born, and "the blow was history," as 63-year-old Carolyn brand to say.
Ever since, the couples accept developed a accord about the horse they accept all appear to love. The Martins, originally from Chicago, confused to Yuba City, Calif., to anatomy their own business, Martin Testing Laboratories, which tests polymers, metals and added materials. That abstraction was abandoned until Chrome came into the picture.

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California Chrome has "mesmerized" his owners from the start, Carolyn Coburn says."We had affectionate of a ability shock if we confused to California," 53-year-old Denise said. "In Chicago, anybody was so affable and we knew all our neighbors. If we met the Martins, it was nice just to accept somebody to allocution to if they visited."