Link (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/05/sports/RAC-Belmont-Notebook.php)
Quote from: \"He was very rough this morning around the barn,\" trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. said. \"I\'ve never seen him like this. I see it as a very positive sign, following a breeze. I just could not be any happier with this horse.\"
Never seen him like this and it\'s a very positive sign??? Dutrow has lost his rocks. I\'ve been around horses a while, and it sounds like classic symptoms of being agitated/aggravated over something.. See it in the paddock all the time pre-race. My guess is he isn\'t sound.
Big Brown being keyed is like flushing your money down the drain.
Is it possible he\'s PO\'d because they are not letting him run? I keep reading that they are keeping him on such a light schedule. Also FYI big article in the Times today saying that he hasn\'t had a steriod shot since April- That they wanted to show he was enough horse without them. Seems to contradict last statements by Dutrow, but there you have it. Steroid free the article touts, but in it they say, the effects are already seen. He\'s a monster of a horse.