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Sunriver carries locals’ hopes.(Sports)(Eugene residents Aaron and Marie Jones own one of the favorites for today’s Belmont Stakes): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) $5.95 This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on June 10, 2006. The length of the article is 939 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle… |
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In retrospect, did Kent Desormeaux give Big Brown a bad ride in the Belmont Stakes?
I know this was widely discussed right after the race, but I’d like to hear some views at this time as we look back.
Although we cannot know for sure if it was Big Brown’s foot injury, just a bad day, the rail or the racetrack we still can speculate.
My best guess was that it was a bad ride, I maintain this position. When the gate opened, Big Brown could have been sent to a ground saving lead from the rail, instead he was taken back sharply which caused him to be very rank early then taken to the outside and was wide all the way, losing ground before eventually being pulled up.
D’Tara who won the race, is a nice kind of a horse even till this day but surely is nothing to “write home about” at all.
Thank you for reading this tirade and for your answers. So what do you all think?
I agree with you that Big Brown had a bad trip. I said so last year after the Belmont and I have seen no evidence to make me change my mind.
The Belmont surface was playing faster near the rail that day… as you got away from the rail, the surface got deeper and slower. Ignoring this, Kent took Big Brown very wide through the whole race and the horse had nothing left to finish the race. Big Brown broke slowly and got boxed in at the rail, but instead of getting the horse to relax behind horses, Kent goosed him twice trying to shove him through holes that weren’t really there. Then he finally got away from the rail, came around horses, and made no effort to get back to a ground saving trip.
There’s all kinds of excuses for the horse… the quarter crack and the loose shoe. But to me, what really lost the race for this horse was hubris. The connections thought that they had the race in the bag… they thought they were owning/training/riding Pegasus and that the horse could overcome absolutely everything. Between the Preakness and Belmont, Big Brown had the quarter crack and missed a lot of training. I’m all about having a fresh horse for a 12 furlong race, but you also need a fit horse who’s prepared to go 12 furlongs for the first time in his life. Dutrow gave Big Brown a little vacation in those 3 weeks instead of preparing him for the race. Then Kent took over on race day and assumed the horse could overcome being asked for run during the first furlong to get running room, then overcome the wide trip and the deep track. As it turns out, the horse wasn’t quite that good. It’s disappointing because if the horse had been handled properly, we could have seen a Triple Crown winner.
Note — regarding answers that have come after mine:
I also have no problem with Kent pulling Big Brown up in the stretch… better safe than sorry. My answer is limited to the first 10 furlongs of the race. Just thought I’d clarify.
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