The stunning climax, certainly not the "foregone conclusion" Big Brown trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. envisioned, was already buried in jockey Kent Desormeaux's rearview mirror as he sat numbly in the jocks room early Saturday evening talking to his fellow riders. ...more

June 8, 2008

As the national anthem played over the loudspeakers Friday afternoon an hour before a $23,000 claiming race opened a 10-race card, the scene at Belmont Park was rather subdued. ...more

June 7, 2008

The late-morning sun is beginning to cook the 1-mile oval, and Eddie Woods is close to calling this part of his day done. Before he drives back up the hill toward the barns, though, the veteran horseman locks his eyes on a pair of fillies working out on the track. ...more

June 6, 2008

OCALA The late-morning sun is beginning to cook the 1-mile oval, and Eddie Woods is close to calling this part of his day done. Before he drives back up the hill toward the barns, though, the veteran horseman locks his eyes on a pair of fillies working out on the track. ...more

June 5, 2008

The rippled chestnut colt born in Ocala and captured forever by old TV footage and faded photographs has been dead for seven years, his remains buried underneath his bronze statue on a patch of bluegrass in Kentucky. ...more

June 1, 2008