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Report: Big Brown photo reveals loose shoe early in Belmont
ESPN.com news service ^ | 6.23.2008

Posted on 06/23/2008 8:00:49 AM PDT by TexasNative2000

A photo taken during the early stages of the Belmont Stakes has revealed Big Brown was running with a loose shoe as the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner attempted to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1979, Newsday reported Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: belmontstakes; bigbrown; horseracing; triplecrown
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To: gate2wire

I wonder how often a shoe would be changed out on a racehorse. I would guess that they are being re-shod all the time - more often if there’s a hoof problem.


61 posted on 06/23/2008 9:43:37 AM PDT by Tallguy (Tagline is offline till something better comes along...)
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To: poindexter

Winner!

...or one of his associates.

In other news: Kent Desormeaux spotted in mink coat driving a new Lamborghini


62 posted on 06/23/2008 9:44:56 AM PDT by Eddie01 (one more for the road is actually a really bad idea)
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To: Tallguy; HairOfTheDog; ottbmare

“I would guess that they are being re-shod all the time - more often if there’s a hoof problem.”

I wonder. If a horse has a propensity for quarter cracks, how often would they change shoes?


63 posted on 06/23/2008 9:53:22 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: TexasNative2000

There’s an Earl Butz joke in here somewhere...


64 posted on 06/23/2008 10:04:50 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Agree.


65 posted on 06/23/2008 10:06:41 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: gate2wire

If he has quarter cracks, he might have shelly feet. If he has shelly feet, 6-7 weeks between shoes (maybe).


66 posted on 06/23/2008 10:07:26 AM PDT by MJemison
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To: MJemison

Thanks again. Have to remember your name. :-)


67 posted on 06/23/2008 10:13:26 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: gate2wire; Tallguy
Big Brown's front feet are a mess.... he was wearing glue ons. Here's more on the specialty shoeing he had: Fran Jurga's "HoofBlog": Up-to-the Minute News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal: Big Brown: The Most Famous Feet in Derby History!

They are often re-shod for the specific track conditions for a race.

68 posted on 06/23/2008 10:18:03 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Very interesting link.
So BB’s glue-ons were attached three weeks before the Derby. Then, two weeks to the Preakness, after which he developed a crack. Very interesting.


69 posted on 06/23/2008 10:25:36 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: TexasNative2000
"Makes sense as a reasonable explanation for Big Brown's terrible performance in that race."

No, it makes NO sense as an excuse for his performance. Losing a shoe is not an uncommon event in a race and has little effect on a horse's performance. Unless the shoe hits somebody behind the horse, most of the time nobody, most of all the horse, knows it's missing until returning to the barn.

70 posted on 06/23/2008 10:33:54 AM PDT by penowa
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To: HairOfTheDog

From the link you just posted, the owner knew of this loose shoe at latest on Saturday, June 8.

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2008/06/big-browns-owner-says-loose-hind-shoe.html


71 posted on 06/23/2008 10:34:05 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: TexasNative2000

For want of a nail ... a kingdom was lost.


72 posted on 06/23/2008 10:38:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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To: ErnBatavia

Seems kinda like Tanya Hardings undoing in the Olympics was a loose shoe string on her skate, wonder what else Tanya and Bib Brown have in common


73 posted on 06/23/2008 10:38:48 AM PDT by Delmont
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To: HairOfTheDog; gate2wire

TB race horses wear aluminum racing plates. There are no steel or iron shoes for TB’s except some corrective-type custom-made shoe they would not be racing in. I don’t know what the glue-on’s are made of - too new for me to have ever seen them.


74 posted on 06/23/2008 10:40:15 AM PDT by penowa
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To: TexasNative2000

Yep...hugh an series


75 posted on 06/23/2008 10:40:16 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: penowa

Looks like aluminum?

76 posted on 06/23/2008 10:49:54 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: gate2wire

Ah - SO it’s not a surprise that it was loose.


77 posted on 06/23/2008 11:17:29 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: MeanWestTexan

That is what I thought also.


78 posted on 06/23/2008 11:20:38 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: Eddie01

bttt


79 posted on 06/23/2008 11:21:06 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (Driving a Phase Two Operation Chaos Hybrid that burns both gas AND rubber.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

I guess not.


80 posted on 06/23/2008 11:24:36 AM PDT by gate2wire
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