Watch a Replay of the Race here:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/24684700#24684700

What a great race and a true test for Big Brown.  He was honestly not even challenged.  Big Brown’s jockey put him in just the right place avoiding a little trouble.  Big Brown is a horse that stands out even among the best.  I was not a Big Brown believer until after the Kentucky Derby.  Now I am riding him like the rest of America to Belmont where we are going to see the next Triple Crown Winner!  Thirty years is too long a wait!  This is a great test of this horses metal!

 

Big Brown waits patiently, then charges off with Preakness win

Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Big Brown powered to the lead turning for home and then sailed through the stretch to win the Preakness, still perfect and squarely pointed down the path toward thoroughbred racing’s first Triple Crown in 30 years.

Just as he did two weeks ago in a Kentucky Derby marred by the breakdown of the second-place finisher Eight Belles, the colt named for UPS delivered another stunning win, this time by 5 1/4 lengths. Macho Again was second and Icabad Crane was third.

But this time Big Brown broke from the middle of an undistinguished pack and jockey Kent Desormeaux took him off the pace. They ran third down the backstretch before roaring around the final turn and pulled away from the field.

“It was almost like the Kentucky Derby. He just set sail,” Desormeaux said.

In the Derby, Big Brown started on the far outside of 19 horses and used an explosive finishing kick to win by 4 3/4 lengths, the tightest margin in his 5-0 career.

Big Brown joined Majestic Prince (1969), Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew (1977) and Smarty Jones (2004) as undefeated Derby and Preakness winners.

“He just keeps on getting better,” trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. said.

The bay colt is the first 3-year-old since Smarty Jones to go into the Belmont Stakes in three weeks, June 7, with a triple try in play. It’s been 30 years since Affirmed swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont to give racing its 11th Triple Crown winner.

Pimlico Race Course, 12th Race - May 17, 2008

$1,000,000 Preakness S. (G1)
Pgm Horse Win Place Show
7 Big Brown 2.40 2.60 2.40
1 Macho Again   17.20 10.40
3 Icabad Crane     5.60
  Finish Time: 1:54.80

Scratched: Behindatthebar

Also ran: Racecar Rhapsody, Stevil, Kentucky Bear, Hey Byrn, Giant Moon, Tres Borrachos, Yankee Bravo, Gayego and Riley Tucker

Winning Trainer: Dutrow Richard E Jr - Owner: IEAH Stables & Paul Pompa, Jr.

$2 Pick 3 (5-7-5/7) 3 Correct Paid $415.80 Pick 3 Pool $439,855

$2 Pick 4 (3/7-5-7-5/7) 4 Correct Paid $1,182.20 Pick 4 Pool $1,398,635

$1 Pick 6 (1/2/4-2/9/10/12-3/7-5-7-5/7) 5 Correct Paid $19.90 Pick 6 Pool

$1 Pick 6 (1/2/4-2/9/10/12-3/7-5-7-5/7) 6 Correct Paid $3,863.40 Pick 6 Pool $281,831

$2 Daily Double (7-7) Paid $10.40 Daily Double Pool $351,789

$2 Daily Double (SPECIAL/PREAKNESS 3-7) Paid $20.20 Daily Double Pool $345,902

$2 Exacta (7-1) Paid $36.60

$1 Superfecta (7-1-3-6) Paid $1,192.30

$2 Trifecta (7-1-3) Paid $336.80

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/triplecrown08/news/story?id=3401275

 

Wow, What a horse!  What a Jockey!  What a Trainer!  What an ownership group!  What a Team!

 

$50,000 to stand as stud at Three Chimneys farm!

 

Big Brown to stand at Three Chimneys

By Glenye Cain Oakford
Daily Racing Form

Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown will head for stud at Three Chimneys after his racing career, which the colt’s owner, International Equine Acquisitions Holdings, has said will end with his 3-year-old season.

Big Brown, a Boundary colt who was to run in the Preakness Stakes late Saturday afternoon, went into the second leg of the Triple Crown undefeated in four starts. He won the Derby on May 3 by 4 3/4 lengths.

The stud deal reportedly puts Big Brown’s total value at about $50 million. The deal with Three Chimneys, the Midway, Ky., nursery that also stands the 2004 Derby and Preakness winner, Smarty Jones, appeared to have fallen through on Thursday, when International Equine’s founder and co-president, Michael Iavarone, issued a statement saying a hoped-for Preakness-week sale of the colt’s breeding rights had been scrapped as “legal issues and time constraints proved too much to overcome.”

According to an announcement made by NBC during Preakness coverage, Big Brown will be syndicated.

Bred by Monticule Farm in Kentucky, Big Brown is out of the Nureyev mare Mien.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/triplecrown08/news/story?id=3401194

 

What a Horse Racing Summer! 

~Teddy Bear

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