The N&O‘s Luke DeCock yesterday morning”
But the rest of the field, as it did in the Preakness, verges on a joke — no more so than 0-for-5 Guadalcanal, who will start directly to Big Brown’s right, quite possibly as close as he’ll get to the big horse all day.
Big Brown may not be a great horse. He may not be particularly charismatic. But at 6:25 p.m. today, he’s headed into history, because there’s no one to stop him.
Today’s top sports story:
Big Brown straggled home last Saturday, losing the Belmont Stakes to 38-1 long shot Da’ Tara. Eased up in the homestretch, he was so far behind at the end that his margin of defeat wasn’t even charted.
“He was empty. He didn’t have anything left,” Desormeaux said. “There’s no popped tires. He’s just out of gas.”
