Big Brown has Quarter Crack

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

According to John Pricci, there will be a 11am press conference at Belmont to announce that BIG Brown has a quarter crack. This was just told by Pricci on the Capital OTB show Trackfacts.

[blackthroatedwind]

I guess that's why he supposedly didn't come to the track yesterday morning.

[Storm Cadet]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I guess that's why he supposedly didn't come to the track yesterday morning.

NY Newsday reported that he did gallop his usual 1 1/2 miles yesterday as written by Ed MacNamara.

[mark2061mn]

According to John Pricci on Capital OTB, there will be a news conference shortly about BB having quarter crack. He said this does not mean he is out of the Belmont.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by mark2061mn

According to John Piesen on Capital OTB, there will be a news conference shortly about BB having quarter crack. He said this does not mean he is out of the Belmont.

Do you really think John Pricci deserves being mistaken for John Piesen?

[mark2061mn]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Do you really think John Pricci deserves being mistaken for John Piesen?

Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.

[Travis Stone]

Tom just mentioned a press conference, but that is all, I can't get immediate confirmation on the issue...

[Cajungator26]

This article is from a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/rac...er-cracks.aspx

Did they say what hoof it was in? Just a vibe, but I'm guessing the right front.

[Strategic Mission]

Originally Posted by mark2061mn

According to John Pricci on Capital OTB, there will be a news conference shortly about BB having quarter crack. He said this does not mean he is out of the Belmont.

If he has one then you are kidding yourself if you think they will run him at 12f against somebody like Casino Drive.

He is worth too much and I am sure insurance companies will step in here. He will be retired if it is true.

[Travis Stone]

If true, it's hard to imagine the folks at Three Chimney's would be okay with him running with some issues. Unless its extremely minor... but even then... we're talking about a lot of $.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

If true, it's hard to imagine the folks at Three Chimney's would be okay with him running with some issues. Unless its extremely minor... but even then... we're talking about a lot of $.

supposedly three chimneys has no say til he retires...but perhaps they could suggest things?
he missed months of racing due to his feet between his 2 yo debut and his first at three, and i think it was due to his feet that they were keeping him on the turf-that and the fact he could run so well on it.


chuck, he ran down behind pretty badly in the preakness-i remember your comment about it being significant that he bled through his bandages the way he did. could that be caused by him having sore feet, and perhaps changing his style of running? i don't know if there's a correlation between the two or not, which is why i'm asking.

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

If true, it's hard to imagine the folks at Three Chimney's would be okay with him running with some issues. Unless its extremely minor... but even then... we're talking about a lot of $.

You would think this would decrease his
value. It should decrease his value with
all the measures they have taken to keep
him sound.

Totally messed up. This illustrates perfectly
how screwed up the thoroughbred market
is. Totally short term thinking.

Pile o crud thinking.

[Strategic Mission]

Originally Posted by pgardn

You would think this would decrease his
value. It should decrease his value with
all the measures they have taken to keep
him sound.

Totally messed up. This illustrates perfectly
how screwed up the thoroughbred market
is. Totally short term thinking.

Pile o crud thinking.

I doubt it will decrease his value. If he were to take a few months off and then come back and lose then his value would plummet. They will retire him and he will get his $100K from all the people that don't care about soundness but are interested in trying to get the next big brown.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by Strategic Mission

If he has one then you are kidding yourself if you think they will run him at 12f against somebody like Casino Drive.

He is worth too much and I am sure insurance companies will step in here. He will be retired if it is true.

I doubt they'll retire him, but he'll probably need some time off.

And LOL at Casino Drive.

[Danzig]

hmmm.
so much for dutrows talk about wishing the belmont was right now, since his horse isn't as ready as he thought.
they say it doesn't mean he's out, but can he make it with one?

[Antitrust32]

What would they have to do?? Run him in bar shoe's or something like Unbridled's Song in the Kentucky Derby??

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Danzig

hmmm.
so much for dutrows talk about wishing the belmont was right now, since his horse isn't as ready as he thought.
they say it doesn't mean he's out, but can he make it with one?

Against this group, he could probably win on two feet but I'd doubt they'd risk running him.

[Travis Stone]

John Pricci just confirmed the press conference, he said he received a phone call 25 minutes before going on the air...

[fpsoxfan]

What exactly is a quarter crack?

[Strategic Mission]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

I doubt they'll retire him, but he'll probably need some time off.

And LOL at Casino Drive.

LOL should be for your ridiculous belief that they won't retire him. This is IEAH. The value of the horse can only go down by racing. He can win every race the rest of the year and his value won't increase. He has soundness issues and keeping him around for the fall isn't going to make any breeder forget that.

As for Casino Drive, you really should start referring to him as the Belmont winner Casino Drive. You are going to see a romp in the Belmont, just not from Big Brown.