For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 Kjones@parxracing.com

CALIFORNIA CHROME ARRIVES AT PARX FOR SATURDAY’S PA DERBY

Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner California Chrome was offloaded on the backstretch at Parx Racing at approximately 4:45 p.m. , ET to begin preparations for Saturday’s 1 1/8 mile $1 million G2 Pennsylvania Derby.

Assistant trainer Alan Sherman was at Parx to meet the California bred 3-year-old and settled him into Barn 10. California Chrome, the even money favorite in the Pennsylvania Derby, was joined on the Tex Sutton flight from California by Pennsylvania Derby entrants, Bayern, the 7-2 second choice and winner of the William Hill Haskell for trainer Bob Baffert; the John Sadler –trained Candy Boy (12-1), and Jo Jo Warrior, also trained by Baffert, who has arrived for the $1 million grade I Cotillion for 3-year-old fillies on Saturday.

Sherman said that California Chrome, owned by Steve Coburn and Perry Martin, and trained by Alan’s father, Art Sherman, was loaded on a van at Los Alamitos Racetrack in California at 2:00 a.m. PT Tuesday morning and was taken to Ontario Airport for the flight to Lexington, Ky. Following a refueling, the plane arrived in the early afternoon at Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton Airport in Pennsylvania, and was then vanned to Parx in Bensalem outside of Philadelphia.

“He looks great, bouncing around the shed row, eating up right now, so I was happy the way he travelled,” said Sherman to reporters outside the barn.

When asked about drawing the No. 1 post position, Sherman commented, “Nobody wants the one hole, but there’s nothing you can do about it.”

When asked about the selection of Pennsylvania Derby for his first race since finishing fourth in the Belmont Stakes on June 7 in his failed bid to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner, Sherman said, “The timing is perfect for getting him ready for the Breeders’ Cup.’’

California Chrome is scheduled to go to the track Wednesday morning between 8:30-9:00 a.m., a time slot reserved exclusively for starters in the Pennsylvania Derby and the Cotillion. Sherman said that California Chrome will jog once around the track to get familiar with the surrounds, and will gallop on Thursday.

When asked about next year, Sherman said “As of now he’s going to run as a four-year-old.” Sherman will brief the media at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday in the paddock.