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It isn't both day that a equid resembling Big Brown comes circa to lure the public interest of the large-scale media; it's been just about 30 years, in fact. So why are equus caballus sport fans hue and cry to bet on him to win the 2008 Belmont Stakes? It's simple, really: Big Brown has won the most basic two jewels, he's fast, he's strong, he's got bravura stamina and saintly self-control. But preceding all other he's got the intuition of a winner - a Triple Crown best.

When Big Brown busted out of the william henry gates at the 2008 Kentucky Derby and blew away the area at Churchill Downs to win by 4 3/4 lengths complete second-place relief pitcher Eight Belles - we all watched in awe. When he made a regurgitate execution at the 2008 Preakness Stakes, this incident finish 5 1/4 lengths in the lead of long-term iridescent Macho Again - we all stood and we all cheered because we all knew this was a specific mo.

Big Brown is a big buy and sell - he's the true operate.

So what if he has a tops in his hoof? (It's been restored and reported to running shoe Rick Dutrow he's as keen as new.) What will we do if Big Brown wins the 2008 Belmont Stakes? What will we do if he doesn't?

The unequal popular to win the Belmont Stakes, Big Brown must instinctively cognise that this next race is going to be his biggest.

Odds-on favorites to win the Belmont Stakes have absent 12-for-30 and the finishing 5 horses were subjugated. The final unequal favorite to win the Belmont Stakes was the concluding colt to win the Triple Crown - Affirmed in 1978. If Big Brown can win this one he'll get with the sole purpose the 12th Triple Crown champ in the yore of American purebred racing.

Here is the index of Triple Crown hopefuls that won the archetypal two jewels, but next went on to suffer the concluding cut stone - the Belmont Stakes:

Minor hoof injuries aside, Big Brown's big day should lifeless be challenging

Critics and oddsmakers are wise saying that the corral of horses enemy for the Belmont Stakes isn't about as hard as they have been in the past; that because of his out-and-out largeness and strength, a triumphant bet on Big Brown seems effortless adequate even for the amateur pony odds-maker.

But don't be too rapid to procedure out one of Big Brown's fundamental competitors: Casino Drive.

Casino Drive comes from the same horse (Better Than Honour) as the later two Belmont Stakes winners - Jazil and Rags to Riches - and he won the $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes by 5 3/4 lengths, blanket the 1 1/8 miles course at Belmont Park in 1:47.87 and earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 101. With that benevolent of history, you would construe that Casino Drive could create telescoped occupation of the 1 1/2 miles egg-shaped immorality track set out in first of him at the forthcoming Belmont Stakes.

Even with Big Brown kick rudeness in his face?

Jockey Kent Desmoreaux, the American pedigree horse racing Hall of Fame horseback rider who holds the U.S. text for utmost races won in a single year, will sometime once again be riding Big Brown on contest day, June 7th. Having won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes atop Big Brown, Desmoreaux knows what this superior horse is experienced of doing. Ironically, Desmoreaux was also the successful horseman who rode Casino Drive to success at the Peter Pan Stakes. Nonetheless, Desmoreaux stand definite on his outcome once asked which is the improved horse - Casino Drive or Big Brown.

"This is the optimal colt I've ever ridden," Desmoreaux told reporters at a grip meeting subsequent to the 2008 Preakness Stakes. "I aforementioned it."

Watch and bet on Big Brown go the extent to win the 2008 Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown on Saturday, June 7th. Post circumstance is 6:30 p.m. EST on ABC.