OK now we know Big Brown did not break down but we have all kinds of issues out there in media land and lots of questions regarding the ride he got from the jockey. Here is my take---for what it's worth---the horse took a beating getting to the outside from the rail---both on the front legs and the back legs getting to the first turn. No matter what the outcome of all the Bull S_ _ _ and all the Congressional hearings and all of the other stuff the jockey rode a good race---the horse got in trouble and ran up on the horse ahead before the first turn and then bumped another horse hard getting to the outside. Call him a wimp if you want to but Big Brown is just a horse---a great horse but---just a horse. He isn't the first and won't be the last to quit a race because he got smacked around---it is a good strategy for the jockeys to box him in and make him earn an outside hole---in doing so you often take the heart out of the horse---which is what I think happened.
MY $0.02---There has never been a single incident in the history of the United States where a congressionally mandated solution has ever, and I do mean ever, been the correct solution---so my vote is they get out of the spotlight and let the racing commission run the races---
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