Big Brown Gallops At Belmont Park
Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown remains “right on target” for the 2008 Belmont Stakes on June 7 at Belmont Park, in which he will attempt to become horse racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner and the first in 30 years.
With a set of stainless steel wires holding a small quarter-crack together, Big Brown galloped a mile and a half Thursday morning under exercise rider Michelle Nevin. Big Brown’s trainer Rick Dutrow said the colt would breeze once before the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes, either Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday, after a patch is applied to the five-eighths inch crack on the inside of his left front hoof.
“It’s coming slowly but surely,” said Dutrow. “If we were under pressure, (hoof specialist Ian McKinlay) could patch him today but we’re not under any pressure. We’ve got time. Today’s only Thursday.”
Big Brown developed the quarter crack after galloping last Friday, and remained in his barn over the Memorial Day weekend. On Tuesday, after the crack was laced together, the colt jogged and then resumed galloping Wednesday morning.
On a scale of 1-10, McKinlay, said the quarter-crack was about a “seven or eight” in terms of being healed.
“At this, point we are playing it as safe as possible,” said McKinlay. “All I do is make sure the wires are intact. I just check it every day after it’s done.”
The 140th running of the $1 million Belmont Stakes (gr. I) will be race 11 of Belmont Park’s June 7 horse racing program. Belmont Stakes post time is 6:25 pm EST.
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Edited from www.nyra.com.
"Big Brown Gallops At Belmont Park" was posted on 29 May 2008 8:42 PM under Belmont Stakes, Horse Racing News, Horses, Special Features, Stakes Races, Triple Crown
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