SPORTSbyBROOKS.com notes that Rick Dutrow Jr., the trainer for Triple Crown flop Big Brown, is taking one final opportunity to be a real horse’s ass (pun intended). Dutrow has decided to aim at Jockey Kent Desormeaux and blame him for why Big Brown pulled up lame at last Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.
Dutrow’s response? “I don’t see the horse with a problem, so I have to direct my attention toward the ride. That’s all I can come up with.” We’ll take “the horse didn’t work out for three weeks before the longest race of its life” for $100,000, Alex.
We haven’t heard one nice word about Dutrow over the last week from noted horse racing writers. Andy Beyer sounded like Dutrow had turned his Belmont-sized gardenia bed and turned it into his own personal compost heap by his actions before and after the race.
I agree with the boys from SbB – if the horse couldn’t work out leading up to the race because of a slight crack in his foot, he’s probably not going to fair to well now is he? Sure, blame the jockey for not wanting to hurt the horse when he saw the animal didn’t have anything in the tank.
