California Chrome has been in all the sporting news lately, although he didn't attain his Triple Crown goal. What isn't so well-known is that one of the horse's owners is a former Yooper.
Excerpt: "Hello," I said. "I'm trying to reach Perry Martin."
Martin is the quiet, media-avoiding, transplanted Yooper, who graduated from Michigan Tech and co-owns California Chrome, a horse that will race in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, bidding to become only the 12th horse to win the Triple Crown.
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Source: Detroit Free Press
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