Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Brown Ran Race With Dislodged Shoe
Photography seems to have solved this mystery...
Steve Haskin reports on it at news.BloodHorse.com:
"The latest photos from the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) reveal Big Brown was stepped on by Guadalcanal leaving the gate, and that the shoe did not re-set itself during the race as previously thought; the colt ran the entire way with the shoe dislodged and the nail protruding from it.
Even trainer Rick Dutrow, who had a hard time accepting the possibility that the incident hampered the colt, now believes after seeing the photos that it could have been an issue."
