Big Brown?Did everyone really expect to be told just how bad his hoof was?

Question

Or do you expect the Vet to admitt it today after the race?

Answer 1

The vet examined him after the race and found no injuries, no soreness and no lameness.  Big Brown just ran out of gas.  It happens all the time in the Belmont because its a long race with very wide turns and a deep surface.  Other horses have won the Belmont with a quarter crack and/or hoof patches.  Look up Touch Gold if you need confirmation of that.

Answer 2

I still don't think his hoof was all that big of a factor. Besides, right after the race they said that he had no injuries.

Answer 3

Watch the replay.   The rider had Big Brown in trouble when there was clear going inside behind the leader.  Something is strange about the ride.  Well it's over now.  Next year we get to do something else again.

Answer 4

His hoof wasn't a factor.

It was 93 degree heat and a mile and half....he just wasn't up for it today.

Answer 5

It didn't look like the hoof was an issue.  I watched him pull up, and as they walked him back to the shed.  There was no indication of favoring the foot in the least.  Now, Casino Drive....he was standing there being cooled out, not wanting to put any weight on that foot, and they said he was "a little bit sore".  Riiiggghhhht.  He was saying "DAM# this hurts".  But anyway, it would seem to me a more logical place to look would be the oppressive heat, and being off winstrol.  It may or may not have had to do with things, but going into the last race of the triple crown is not the time to try to prove a point and monkey with what's been (legally) working.

Answer 6

I think his hoof did play a factor in his performance.  He broke badley out of the gate, he couldn't get to the outside where he likes to run.  He kept switching leads during the race in order to stay off that left side.  Curt was asking and he was not giving.  He was in pain he was throwing his head around something he has never done all the people talked about that as well. He never fought Curt before yesterday it was a fight from the gate.  Big B's head bobbed the entire race, when a horse is hurting when they run or even lope they will bobbed thier heads because they are giving to the soreness.  That horse was in pain.  I raise and train horses, and its just something you learn fast.  When a horse or any animal hurts they can't tell us it hurts and point and say it hurts right here.  So they have other mannerisims you have to watch for.  I watch the race and if you watch his head and his front legs you can tell he puts the left one down very softly comparitively to the right.  That horse was hurting.  They didn't patch the quarter crack in his hoof till Friday.  The day before he was to race.  If it was no big deal, why wasn't it repaired/patched and him continue his training schedule??  Because it was a big deal and that horse suffered for it.  And the IT is the all mighty dollar...... If he had not run the owners and the others that put up the $50million to syndicate him would have lost lots of money.  These horse are not bred for soundness anymore, and thats why we are seeing these problems.  Casino Drive had a soundness issue as well.  Look at Eight Belles and Barbaro.... People think these things are Flukes they are not.  They are mans inability to consider the animal and only think about how much money that can be brought in their pockets.  Sorry getting off my soap box now.....