Truemors
No matter how much the media tries to pretty these stories up, no matter how much they come up with cute little "underdog" vignettes about trainer Rick Dutrow making a noble comeback, they can't bury absolute truth.Dutrow is back-of-the-track trash allowed to elevate himself due to greed, lust for publicity, and poorly-administered racing regulations created and administered by a herd of aging geldings.
There's no surprise today in Big Brown's failure to perform. Although this is a spectacular horse, he's been entrusted to some of the dirtiest hands in thoroughbred racing today.
The only one to come out of this race with any luster is jockey Kent Desormeaux. Desormeaux, realizing that, as he said, he had "no horse" under him, took care of his horse.
He put the horse first--a message that trainer that's not gotten through to trainer Rick Dutrow in his entire, dirty-brown career. For the past eight years, Dutrow, himself a drug user, has been suspended or fined every single years for illegally doping his horses.
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