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The death of the filly Eight Belles, who broke both ankles, certainly took away from spectacular performance of Big Brown, who won the race and remained undefeated.

I didn’t think that Big Brown could do it (see my earlier post) and I was felt that I made the right decision when I saw that he didn’t break right away.  But you have to tip your hat to him and his connections, especially jockey Kent Desormeaux, who won his third Derby.  Kent is now in elite company.  Hopefully Big Brown will stay healthy.

My predictions did not pan out well at all.  The only thing that I got right was the stellar performance of Eight Belles, who ran second only to break down after the race.    It was really a freak injury and so, so, sad.  And it opens up the whole Barbaro “can of worms” once again.