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Chrome battling cough
Throat blister, cough ailing Derby champion
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Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome walks with assistant trainer Alan Sherman as he is unloaded from a trailer at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Monday. The Preakness Stakes will be run Saturday evening. The Kentucky Derby champion enters the race as the odds-on favorite, but is also battling a throat blister and a cough. - photo by Associated Press
BALTIMORE — If Art Sherman has one worry about California Chrome, it's the colt's health. The Kentucky Derby winner coughed a few times on Thursday, the result of a small blister in his throat that itches. Alan Sherman, Art's son and assistant trainer, said the blister appeared before the Derby and is being treated with a glycerin throat wash.