Big Brown leaves for NY
Preakness and Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown left the Pimlico Race Course stakes barn on Monday and headed for New York and the June 7 Belmont Stakes.
“I am feeling pretty confident about things,” trainer Rick Dutrow said. “I can see that he is sharp. Yesterday he was bouncing and today the same thing. He is doing good and that makes everything so much easier.”
Big Brown decisively won Saturday’s Preakness by 5 1/4 lengths and is 5-0 in five career races, winning by a combined 39 lengths.
After walking the Pimlico shedrow at 8 a.m. local time, Big Brown boarded his traveling van without incident about two hours later.
“Everyone can see he is a special kind of horse,” Dutrow said. “As long as we can keep him well within himself, we’ll have a chance. Everybody is very excited about him and how can you not be. It looks like he has a chance at being one of the best ever.”
