Big Brown fails to win the Triple Crown
Long Island's own Big Brown failed in his bid to become horse racing's 12th Triple Crown winner when he finished dead last to Da' Tara in the Belmont Stakes. Da' Tara went wire to wire to beat eight
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Jun 9, 2008, 2:52 PM
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Updated 6,168 days ago
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Long Island's own Big Brown failed in his bid to become horse racing's 12th Triple Crown winner when he finished dead last to Da' Tara in the Belmont Stakes.
Da' Tara went wire to wire to beat eight other thoroughbredsover 1.5 miles, the longest and toughest of the three classics.
"I had no horse," said Big Brown's jockey, Kent Desormeaux.
All week long, Big Brown's trainer, Rick Dutrow Jr., said thehorse's victory was "a foregone conclusion." He turned out bewrong.
The bay colt's disappointing performance followed convincingvictories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. The last horse to win the Triple Crown was Affirmed in1978.
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