Before the Monmouth Stakes on Saturday, I had a bad feeling that Big Brown was going to have his ass handed to him by the turf specialists like Proudinsky, Shakis, and Silver Tree, all older horses and nice graded stakes winners. I had forgotten though that BB is more at home on the grass than the dirt, and I was very pleasantly surprised to see ( Read more... )

From the Blood-Horse ( Read more... )

That was weird. Poor Brown. I wonder what got him---the heat? Lack of conditioning? Racing gods smacking down Dutrow good and proper ( Read more... )

Hooray for Big Brown! What an authoritative performance. :D ( Read more... )

So Curlin won the DWC. BFD. I could have outrun that pathetic field. (It does pain me that Premium Tap is not the horse he once was. What a shame he couldn't have had the last of his good races here in the US.) I just can't get excited by him. Meh ( Read more... )