Especially To The Critics Of Big Brown

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More disappointed I could not be with yesterday's outcome. For me a fan of mostly TCs and BC, I realize I probably don't belong here starting several threads like I have over the past few weeks. But I do enjoy the pageantry of it all. Big Brown gave me a fun few months since I first noticed him in the FLA Derby and after that win, made him my favorite for the KD and forward.

I will not accept that this was the same horse I saw yesterday as in the other races, regardless of all the reasons many of you detail quite articulately why he lost. I never said he was in the class of a Secretariat, Seattle Slew, or Affirmed.

So here are my two questions, and of course they are hypothetical.

1. If (big if) Big Brown enters the Travers and wins, combined with a Win, Place, or Show in the BCC, is he vindicated for yesterday? I say vindicated because I have seen too many "Big Bum" references which are highly unfair.

2. If yesterday was Big Brown's last race, will he still win Top 3 year old award for 2008? Or can any late entry for the rest of this year over take that title?