“Dear Big Brown, I heard you were feeling down. Get better soon,
win the Triple Crown.”
A card, that includes a drawing of a horse with a colorful bandage on his left front foot, outside Big Brown’s stall from “Lucy,” who attends the Anna House child-care center at Belmont Park
“I think the further the race, the more it becomes a rider’s race. I
think decisions that riders make have more impact on the outcome,more so than sprints or seven-eighths of a mile and races like that. Yeah, the further you go, the more important decision-making process becomes for a jockey.”
“Some people wanted me to get someone to set up interviews and organize the media stuff. ‘Why would I want to do that?’ If someone wants to talk to me, all they have to do is ask me or call me up and ask. I answer phone calls and I answer everyone’s questions, don’t I? I think I’m pretty good about answering all the questions.”
Richard Dutrow Jr., trainer of Big Brown, during a press conference on Monday on the Belmont Park backstretch
3 comments:
OK Here's my comment.
I am getting sick and tired of Dutrow and his merry band of off- shore money guys. Yes, today's media frenzy operates 24/7, but no excuses for bad behavior please.
In the words of the late Eugene Jacobs to me after Joanie's Chief broke his maiden:
"The horse is the star, and he's not talking. Neither should you."
His niece, Patrice Wolfson the owner of the last Triple Crown Winner, who became a friend to me, also followed "Uncle's" rules.
I wish everyone would.
Amen to that, Joan!
I am not sure what is obnoxious about this quote. Admittedly, this ownership group doesn't give you the warm fuzzies, but I don't understand what is wrong with what he said here.
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