More Brown Thoughts

[carengoodrich]

There have been a few blog comments surface over the weekend criticizing Kent's ride on Big Brown. And some have defended Kent's act of pulling the horse up in the stretch as being "noble" and "protecting the horse". What people don't realize is it's not easy to pull a horse up during a race, and the act of stopping a horse in full stride is a huge

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[alohashark]

It is great to read your insight on this - you know so much about this subject.

[carengoodrich]

Thanks, Robyn. It was a total embarrassment to a sport that is under serious scrutiny these days. None of this is Big Brown's fault, he's a high quality horse trying to do his best. When the jockey pulled Big Brown out of the race, all he did was raise more questions, doubts, and criticism from all the horse racing critics who have little or no knowledge of the sport.