VIDEO: Big Brown’s Big Triple Crown Upset at Belmont
June 7, 2008 by Jodie Lynn Boduch
Filed under Sports Rumors
If we weren’t so bummed out about Big Brown’s tremendous loss to Da’ Tara at the Belmont Stakes, we might joke that the last-minute scratch of the Hooters girls is to blame.
Alas, we were hoping to see a Triple Crown—we were still in diapers when Affirmed won in 1978—and so we’ll tone down the snark. (A little).
ESPN has a clip (31s) of Da’ Tara busting it open down the stretch while jockey Kent Desormeaux eases up Big Brown. This clip (1m, 4s) shows a post-race interview with Desormeaux, who simply said he has “no idea” what happened:
