BIg BrOWN...RACE?

Question

When will he run again?

Answer 1

To answer your question, Big Brown is being pointed toward the Travers on 8/23/2008.

And to respond to the people blaming the jockey:  When something goes wrong in a race, it's fashionable for people who weren't on the horse to blame the jockey.  Here is a quote from Chris McCarron, considered one of the finest jockeys in the world:

<quote>"Kent had a lot of trouble going into the first turn, that's for sure. The trouble is that Big Brown has never broken well. He is his own worst enemy coming out of the gate.  All the jockeys in the Belmont knew that. So when he scrambled out of there again Saturday, they dropped over on him right away and got him in a box."  <endquote>

Desormeaux got boxed so he had to take him outside.  Watch the replay again, and watch the rail, you can see he was trapped.   He tried to split Tale of Ekati and Da Tara but they closed up on him, that's why Desormeaux had to check his horse.  Then they slowed the pace after the first quarter and Brown didn't like it.  Plus Da Tara's jockey was under instructions not to let Brown get in front of him early, no matter what.  

I'd like to see you do a better job under the circumstances.  The horse's trainer spent 6+ weeks claiming the horse was unbeatable.  Of course he's going to blame a convenient scapegoat, the jockey.  

Maybe if the horse had been trained to break sharper Desormeaux coulda got him up front before they trapped him.  And you can work with a horse to break sharper, Nick Zito did it with War Pass after the Tampa Bay fiasco.

Answer 2

Big Brown is scheduled to run in the Traver's Stakes on August 23rd as long as he continues to show that he suffered no ill effects from the Belmont Stakes.  Whether his former jockey will still have the mount I am not so sure, his trainer and vets have found absolutely nothing wrong with the horse and Dutrow has already blamed Kent Desormeaux as the cause of Big Brown's loss.  Though the decision is the owner's, ie IEAH Stables and Micheal Ivarone, most owners do not question their trainers on such judgement calls, they do pay them big bucks to tell them how the horse should be handled.  I agree with the trainer's opinion, after watching the Belmont repeatedly I immediately blamed the jockey's poor decision to swing Big Brown out and force him to run seven wide.  I will include the article link with this post so you can check it out for yourself.

http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news;_ylt=Ao...

Eilise, please understand what I am trying to get across.  As a professional rider I know that mistakes are made, it happens, we're as human as the next person.  But as a Professional I also know that I need to own up to my mistakes, if I don't present a line of fences to my mount properly and he knocks a rail, I am to blame, if I sit too early and he clips a rail with a hind foot, I am to blame.  Big Brown did not have a bad break from the gate, it was perhaps not his best, but in truth Big Brown has never broken poorly, he always breaks fast, hard and alert.  He missed training in the days and weeks leading up to the Belmont, he did not get the blow out that he had before the Preakness, as a professional rider I'd expect the horse to be a bit rank and deal with that when the situation arose.  There is physically nothing wrong with the horse, therefore, the error had to be somewhere else.  Dutrow has had every right to brag about the colt, Big Brown always came through for him, now the colt places last and Dutrow and his owners have done everything possible to find the answer, with a clean bill of health, blame falls on the ride and if necessary, the rider.  I praise Kent for pulling the colt up, could he have whipped him and maybe finished 8th instead of 9th? Maybe, but why?  For that I say Kent did the right thing, but a mile and a half is a long race, why on earth would any jockey choose to stay seven wide nearly the entire trip?  Perhaps he was boxed in during the early going, but the front runners in most races will often fall back and spread out, creating holes and gaps for stalkers to run through, there was no reason to expect DaTara would make the distance and Big Brown maneuvered around Tale of Ekati easily enough.  Big Brown has shown he has tactical speed, he can turn on and off and change position during a race.  Yes, I feel Kent made a mistake, yes I blame him for it.  He is a professional rider and I expect no less of him than myself.

Answer 3

Sure the Travers Stakes is in August.  

I've said from when they were heading for the first turn at Belmont that the jockey made a horrible, terrible move.  He could have just tucked in nicely along that rail and he didn't.  Let the other horses scramble for places, Big Brown has that awesome seond gear, lay back and wait it's a MILE AND A HALF  race for pity's sake.  It is losing your "calm" that has cost many, many the Belmont!

He was way out of his element, out of sorts, if you will,   looking around and being way too nervous!  He really let the race and the Triple Crown get to him.  And hey, it's a big deal BUT.............it is his job once he is in that gate to make it just another race.

He made a couple horrible moves right from  the start and it may have cost him the race.

Answer 4

Don't no. If something really bad happened like internal bleeding they can't stop h**l never race again cause they will kill him if not he will race again soon

Answer 5

Absolutely.  And he'll win again if they find a jockey who knows what the h**l he's doing.

Answer 6

His next race should be the Travers stakes