Some Questions about Big Brown

[RollerDoc]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

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I knew this was rather open ended and I'd get some flack. I agree with what you said. And from the overhead view, it looked impressive. At the same time, Desourmeaux didn't go to the whip, so who knows how much Big Brown could have won the Preakness by?

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by RollerDoc

I knew this was rather open ended and I'd get some flack. I agree with what you said. And from the overhead view, it looked impressive. At the same time, Desourmeaux didn't go to the whip, so who knows how much Big Brown could have won the Preakness by?

I appreciate your enthusiasm and certainly am not trying to drive away potential fans but the whole idea that a horse could go so much faster because the jockey didn't go to the whip is wrong 99 times out of 100. He wouldn't have improved more than 2 or 3 lengths if driven to the wire. He's a nice horse and had every reason to regress when he wasn't prepared to come back in two weeks which he did. But the fact is his Preakness was horifically slow and he needs to show something amazing in the Belmont to ever leave me feeling that there weren't a thousand other horses that could have won this Triple Crown if born in place of Big Brown.

[jpops757]

If Curlin goes to the arc and wins how could he not be in line for HOY. The Arc and and his other races sure look good even against a TC winner.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by jpops757

If Curlin goes to the arc and wins how could he not be in line for HOY. The Arc and and his other races sure look good even against a TC winner.

Cause foreign races aren't supposed to count in HOY voting. He'd at best have a Stephen Foster and Whitney win in the US which isn't going to get it done against a (barf) Triple Crown winner despite his international accomplishments.

[blackthroatedwind]

Who's Big Brown and why are there 2569 threads about him?

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Who's Big Brown and why are there 2569 threads about him?

Some slow 3yo and it is cause no one wants to talk about Magnificience only beating her stablemate cause Mike Smith admitted after the race that he stopped on the horse so she didn't win.

[RollerDoc]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Some slow 3yo and it is cause no one wants to talk about Magnificience only beating her stablemate cause Mike Smith admitted after the race that he stopped on the horse so she didn't win.

"Some slow 3 yr. old" REALLY! In the last five years, only Barbaro was faster in The Kentucky Derby. That's a little extreme.