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Posts: 4822 (05/17/08 14:21:17) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Tags : None 2 down 1 to go Taking it easy...munching on some hay... Last Edited By: 52media 05/18/08 07:39:13. Edited 1 time.
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Posts: 4823 (05/17/08 15:31:43) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Big Brown Crushes Preakness Rivals by Evan Hammonds Updated: May 17, 2008 In a performance that was more like a coronation than a Thoroughbred horse race, Big Brown crushed his 11 rivals in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) at Pimlico Race Course Saturday afternoon by 5 ¼ lengths. The son of Boundary, who two weeks ago won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) by 4 ¾ lengths, will now head to Belmont Park for the June 7 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) with a chance to become racing's 12th winner of the Triple Crown. The historic victory makes him one of four unbeaten horses to win both the Derby and Preakness, joining Majestic Prince (1969), Seattle Slew (1977), and Smarty Jones (2004). Only Seattle Slew was able to land the Triple Crown. Big Brown went off the 1-5 favorite and returned $2.40 to win as the lowest-priced winner since Spectacular Bid paid $2.10 in 1979. The final time for the 1 3/16 miles was 1:54.80. Big Brown is owned by IEAH Stables and Paul Pompa Jr. Just prior to the Preakness, it was announced that upon his retirement, Big Brown will stand at stud at Robert Clay's Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky. Ridden more than confidently by Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux, Big Brown was tucked inside the first time by the winning post after breaking from the six-hole in the classic as Hey Byrn, Gayego, and Riley Tucker were out on the lead. The early fractions were :23.57 and :46.81. On the backstretch, Desormeaux was able to get Big Brown off the rail and to a clear spot just off the leaders. Traveling wide around the final bend after six furlongs in 1:10.48, Big Brown easily caught the leaders. As they straightened away in the lane, Big Brown unleashed a tremendous burst of acceleration and quickly put several lengths between him and his rivals. Desormeaux eased up on the colt down the lane as he peeked behind for rivals and won "under wraps." "He's a freak of a horse; it was just the easiest win ever," said Desormeaux. Macho Again, winner of the Derby Trial, rallied to finish second at 39-1, finishing a half-length ahead of 22-1 shot Icabad Crane in third. The remaining order of finish was: Racecar Rhapsody, Stevil, Kentucky Bear, Hey Byrn, Giant Moon, Tres Borrachos, Yankee Bravo, Gayego, and Riley Tucker. Behindatthebar was scratched May 16. Big Brown paid $2.60 to place and $2.40 to show. Macho Again returned $17.20 and $10.40. Icabad Crane paid $5.60 to show. The 7-1 exacta returned $36.60 and the 7-1-3 trifecta paid $336.80. The $1 superfecta with Racecar Rhapsody returned $1,192.30. He just keeps on getting better and keeps on getting stronger," said winning trainer Rick Dutrow right after the race. "He is special." "When asked about the run for the Triple Crown in three weeks, Dutrow said, "It doesn't look like he got down on his belly today. "I know we have horse race," he continued. "I'm going to be under the impression that he's going to be tough to beat in the Belmont." "To bring him back for the Triple Crown will be a dream come true," said Michael Iavarone, the major principal with IEAH Stables along with Richard Schiavo. "It's going to be a fun, fun three weeks. One of the horses that will take on Big Brown in the Belmont will be Casino Drive. Casino Drive won the Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II) in just his second career start. The son of Mineshaft is a half-brother to the last two winners of the Belmont Stakes: Jazil and Rags to Riches. All three are out of the grade I-winning mare Better Than Honour. A $950,000 sale yearling, Casino Drive was shipped to Japan where he broke his maiden. "The Japanese people are going to come here and think that Godzilla is dead. Well, Godzilla's not dead," Dutrow said at the post-race press conference. Big Brown is a 3-year-old colt by the pensioned stallion Boundary, out of the Nureyev mare Mien. He was bred in Kentucky by Monticule. He was purchased by Paul Pompa for $190,000 out of the Keeneland April 2-year-old sale from the Eddie Woods consignment. "I'm very proud," said Paul Pompa Jr. after the race. Pompa had Big Brown with trainer Patrick Reynonds as a 2-year-old. After majority interest was sold to IEAH Stables, the colt was turned over to Rick Dutrow. "I have a lot of respect for Rick Dutrow. I had a lot of respect for Rick Dutrow before he had this horse. Mike and IEAH made me a very fair deal. These guys arent' afraid. They made me a great deal. It was a win-win situation for everybody. Patrick Reynolds, did a great job breaking this horse." In the past 11 years six horses have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown and gone on the Belmont with a shot at the Triple Crown: Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet ('98), Charismatic ('99), War Emblem ('02), Funny Cide ('03), and Smarty Jones (-04). The last winner of the Triple Crown was Affirmed, who defeated Alydar in all three legs in 1978. He joined Secretariat ('73) and Seattle Slew as Triple Crown winners in the 1970s. Other winners are: Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox ('30), Omaha ('35), War Admiral ('38), Whirlaway ('41), and Citation ('48). Copyright © 2008 The Blood-Horse, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Posts: 4824 (05/18/08 06:04:28) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	I'm convinced he can do it. Yesterday he only 'ran' 3/8 of a mile, the rest of the time he was holding back. When he hit it, it looked like he had jets on his back, he annihilated the competition by 5+ lengths, it was amazing! His jockey, Kent Desormeaux, is convinced as well. He should know best, he has already ridden 2 other previous derby winners and another Preakness winner, there's also another great story (see below). This is great for the industry seeing all the heartbreak of late, i.e. Barbaro/Eight Belles:( 30 years is a long time man.... Last Edited By: 52media 05/18/08 07:13:04. Edited 4 times.
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Posts: 4826 (05/18/08 07:04:34) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Desormeaux taking family, fans on ride of lifetime By DAN GELSTON - 14 hours ago BALTIMORE (AP) - Dad was somewhere else getting all the pats on the back for his winning ride Saturday. Jacob Desormeaux was too distracted to notice anyway. Sitting on a friend's shoulders, the 9-year-old boy patted his mom on the head and asked a question that had nothing to do with winning the Triple Crown. "I wish daddy would buy Big Brown," Jacob said. "Mom, can we buy Big Brown?" "No," said Sonia Desormeaux, laughing. "We can't afford Big Brown. He's too expensive." Maybe dad can't afford the dazzling colt. But jockey Kent Desormeaux is taking Big Brown, family and friends on the Triple Crown ride of a lifetime. Desormeaux rode Big Brown to a 5 1/4-length victory at the Preakness, setting up a Triple Crown try at the Belmont Stakes in three weeks. "There are so many hurdles," Desormeaux said. "I can't wait to find out what happens." Greatness again awaits Desormeaux. This time, the jockey wants to finish what he started. Ten years after a crushing near-miss at racing history, Desormeaux has one more shot at winning the Triple Crown. The 38-year-old Desormeaux led Big Brown to the Preakness' winner's circle only two weeks after he guided the colt to a thrilling 4 3/4-length victory in the Kentucky Derby. Up ahead, the Belmont. Up ahead, the chance to become racing's 12th Triple Crown winner and the first since Affirmed in 1978. Desormeaux called Big Brown the best horse he's ever ridden, even better than Real Quiet, the colt that nearly ended the Triple Crown drought in 1998. This one was never even close. Desormeaux had so much time he could sneak a peek under his right arm looking for Big Brown's competition. He never found it down the stretch. Never needed the whip, either. And the race ended the same way as the other four run by the big bay colt: With a win. "I started slowing him down and watching TV, make sure nothing went crazy," he said. Win the Triple Crown, and an ordinary jockey's life would never be the same. Desormeaux seems fit to handle all the chaotic changes that come along with grouping your name with such winners like Steve Cauthen or Ron Turcotte. "When you can win geared down like Kent had him, it's amazing," Cauthen, who rode Affirmed, said by telephone from Kentucky. "The thing is, I think somebody said today if he gets boxed in and gets dirt in his face, maybe that would stop him, but he's proven that doesn't bother him." Desormeaux's professional disappointments have been a blip compared to the personal hardships in his family. Jacob was born with Usher syndrome, a genetic disorder that stole his hearing at birth and is slowly robbing him of his sight. Jacob acted like any other boy on this night. "I'm thankful that I've been blessed with three beautiful people and a freak of a horse," Desormeaux said. Sonia, and sons Jacob and Joshua, watched the race on TV from a suite. It was too difficult to watch the big screen, even with Jacob seemingly perched on someone else's shoulders the whole time. "He got to see how (Kent) was pulling away easily," Sonia Desormeaux said. Jacob will likely be on some broad shoulders again at the Belmont, where his father experienced perhaps the biggest disappointment of his career. Desormeaux was in this position before, with Real Quiet in 1998. He rode trainer Bob Baffert's Real Quiet to nearly a four-length lead at the Belmont, only to have Victory Gallop catch him in the final stride of a sensational stretch run and win the race by a nose. "It's very comparable," Sonia Desormeaux said of 1998 and '08. "But winning as impressive as he has been, it's definitely a lot more exciting for all of us." The sport still waits for its 12th Triple Crown winner. Now, Desormeaux is positioned again to sweep the Derby, Preakness and Belmont for the first time in 30 years. AP Sports Writer Will Graves in Louisville, Ky., contributed to this report.
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Posts: 4827 (05/18/08 07:25:59) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	TRA.com talks to hall of fame jockey Kent Desormeaux about his favored Kentucky Derby mount, Big Brown, on Thusday, May 1, 2008.
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Posts: 4828 (05/18/08 07:27:24) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Big Brown, Eight Belles, Denis Of Cork, Tale of Ekati, Recapturetheglory, Colonel John, Anak Nakal, Pyro, Cowboy Cal, Z Fortune, Smooth Air, Visionaire, Court Vision, Z Humor, Cool Coal Man, Bob Black Jack, Gayego, Big Truck, Adriano and Monba battle it out in the 2008 Kentucky Derby. Last Edited By: 52media 05/18/08 07:57:08. Edited 1 times.
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Posts: 4829 (05/18/08 07:33:32) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Big Brown easily takes the second leg of the Triple Crown... Contains post race interviews
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Posts: 12847 (05/18/08 07:44:59) paste & run artist Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Big Brown is quite a horse. Gunsite "Well yes, doom and gloom is a result of fear, which itself is a natural consequence of an inability to think for oneself." -Satch-the prophet
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Posts: 4832 (05/19/08 03:41:41) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	He's gonna be greater here in 3 weeks!! Jockeys Pay Tribute to Eight Belles by Deirdre B. Biles Updated: May 18, 2008 Jockeys honored the memory of Eight Belles by wearing stickers on their boots or mud pants May 16 and 17 at Pimlico, which was hosting the 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and a variety of other graded races. Each red and white adhesive label had a bell, the number 8, and the word "Belles" on it. Eight Belles broke down after finishing second to Big Brown in the May 3 Kentucky Derby Presented By Yum! Brands (gr. I) at Churchill Downs and was euthanized. "It's something to remind everybody of a great horse," said jockey John Velazquez. "What happened was a really sad thing, and we're sad. I think it (wearing the stickers) is a good thing to bring awareness to our game. We'll do whatever is possible to minimize anything that happens like that." The idea for the stickers came from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA). "It's not related to a specific cause; it's just really to pay tribute to the filly," said Keith Chamblin, senior vice president of communications for the NTRA. "We thought it would be nice for the jockeys to wear something. We had them made for the jockeys." According to Terry Meyocks, the National Manager of the Jockeys' Guild, "they (NTRA officials) asked us if we would consider asking our riders to do it, and we said, 'Absolutely.' The jocks have been very supportive." Copyright © 2008 The Blood-Horse, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Posts: 9647 (05/19/08 15:29:57) hey... give peace at least half a chance Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Cool, maybe they can euthanize him on the track after they're done with him too.
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Posts: 9648 (05/19/08 16:23:20) hey... give peace at least half a chance Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	"What happened was a really sad thing, and we're sad. I think it (wearing the stickers) is a good thing to bring awareness to our game." "So, so sad. We absolutely hate it when we breed an animal for speed and then run it so hard that its front legs shatter. Don't you just hate when that happens? We loved that horse so much because it made us so much money even though we were killing her in the process. These stickers are a real sacrifice for us to wear." Blah.
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Posts: 9650 (05/19/08 18:12:04) hey... give peace at least half a chance Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Never needed the whip, either. Wow, how kind.
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Posts: 4836 (05/20/08 04:08:31) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	1 fatality after 134 years, yeah let's abolish the whole damn thing, oh wait, you say horseback riding causes more injuries and deaths to horses than racing? OK, let's stop that cruelness now!!! Stop breeding Thoroughbreds too!! No, they would go extinct!! Can't do that, ummm, didn't Dale Earnhardt die in a Nascar race? Yep, down with that too. I remember that high school student dying of a heart attack while playing basketball,,,hmmmm, OK no more basketball. Mowing lawns kills more worms and grasshoppers too, D.U.N.!!!! No sports or recreational activities that can cause injries at all. We'll all just sit around the computer finding other things to bitch about that aren't PC OK???? Sports like Life have tragedies. Sad but true.. BTW I kinda like the no lawnmowing bit:)
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Posts: 9651 (05/20/08 16:18:25) hey... give peace at least half a chance Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Whatever, Flo. You think exploiting a horse by running it until it dies while cracking it with a whip is ok and not cruel. I don't. Bad analogy re Earnhardt, though. Nobody was forcing him to go around the track; he did it of his own volition. All of your analogies are flawed, for that matter. Sports like Life have tragedies. Sad but true.. A tragedy would be spending your life being forced to run around a track while being whipped. Care to try it? Last Edited By: Loren 05/20/08 16:20:34. Edited 1 times.
52media	Earth to LALALAnd, come home Loren.	#14	[-]
Posts: 4840 (05/21/08 04:16:53) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	you think exploiting a horse by running it until it dies while cracking it with a whip is ok When/Where did I ever say that? Blaming her injuries on what you 'think' is wrong with the industry is wrong. Nobody knows why she went down YET. The entire community is heartbrokem. I am heartbroken about it. Discounting the efforts of an entire community, an entire culture, all the jockey's, who place their lives on the line every race, to remember her and prevent it from ever happening again, with your flippant, distasteful and disrespectful words is disgusting. I was saying how exciting it is to have a potential triple crown winner after 30 years, man...that's it. I live in it. I'm excited. I'm positive that there are LOT of others who feel the same. Last Edited By: 52media 05/21/08 04:30:36. Edited 1 times.
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Posts: 9653 (05/21/08 10:49:12) hey... give peace at least half a chance Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Disgusting or not, I stand by my comments. Call it what you want, horse racing is the exploitation of an animal for profit, in this case to the point of physical trauma and death. Nobody knows why she went down YET. Yeah well that's bullshit. She went down because of two broken front ankles. Remember? Ya think that maybe, just maybe, her occupation might have had just a smidge of something to do with that? Possibly? Last Edited By: Loren 05/21/08 10:58:12. Edited 1 times.
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Posts: 4841 (05/21/08 13:11:23) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	134 years, 1 fatality man. Add both the Preakness and Belmont and you have over 400+ years 1 fatality. If it was happening year after year, race after race, I would agree with you here. You don't read what I type and you make up shit that I say. I don't like disagreeing with you:)
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Posts: 9654 (05/21/08 13:35:10) hey... give peace at least half a chance Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Flo, if you want to argue that 1 fatality in that many years is a good record, that's a reasonable argument to make. All I'm saying is, there is no denying that they ran that horse to death and that race horses, like greyhounds, are treated as commodities to be profited from (regardless of the consequences) rather than living things. As for making things up, look....if you agree with the sport of horse racing and in that sport they run horses hard and whip them if they don't think they're running hard enough, then...... And sorry, little yellow stickers after years of abuse is just a bit of grandstanding, imo.
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Posts: 4842 (05/21/08 13:55:07) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	I beg to differ 100% Comparing this industry to the greyhound racing is plain WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would love to see you argue your points to Pat Day. That god loving man would get pissed at you as well:)
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Posts: 9655 (05/21/08 16:58:33) hey... give peace at least half a chance Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	That god loving man would get pissed at you as well:) Well, too bad for that god loving man then. And you still haven't told me yet how you'd like being run around a track at the end of a whip. I have a feeling that you (nor I, for that matter) wouldn't like it.
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Posts: 4843 (05/21/08 18:14:55) Internet Broadcaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	Been married for 14 years:)

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