“In hindsight, anything different wouldn’t have mattered, I don’t think. In my mind, I did what I was supposed to do. The start predicated my ride. I extricated myself as fast as I could. I was in a cozy spot by the time we went a quarter of a mile, and I had no horse. That’s it. People can say all they want about other things. If I’d gotten beat a length, or five, you could point the finger all you want, and I would take every ounce of blame.”
Jockey Kent Desormeaux, in the Louisville Courier-Journal, on his much-scrutinized ride aboard Big Brown in the Belmont Stakes (G1)
