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• Jamaica: 'Vision' returns to the weeds

  By Francis La Belle Jr. / NYRA It has been a strange journey so far for IEAH Stables and WinStar Farm’s Court Vision, and he is still only a three-year-old. Winner of Aqueduct’s Grade 2 Remsen last November, he embarked on the Kentucky Derby trail in... Posted Oct 02 2008, 03:28 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Court Vision, Belmont Park, IEAH Stable, Bill Mott, Jamaica Handicap, WinStar Farm

• Portion of IEAH Cup earnings to charity

  From Breeders' Cup Ltd. The Breeders’ Cup announced today that International Equine Acquisitions Holdings, Inc. (IEAH Stables), owners of 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown, will donate a percentage of winnings of all IEAH starters... Posted Sep 24 2008, 01:49 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Breeders' Cup, Big Brown, IEAH Stable, Michael Iavarone, Kip Deville

• Salty grass veterans await Brown in Jersey

  Though his last two races fail to qualify as things of beauty Big Brown has just about locked up the 3-year-old title with his four Grade 1 victories this year. He will be thoroughly tested Saturday when he meets older horses for the first time in the... Posted Sep 12 2008, 01:11 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Big Brown, Richard Dutrow Jr., Rick Dutrow, IEAH Stable, Monmouth Park

• The Curlin camp has the last word

  From Jess Jackson "I made a sportsman’s proposal to Big Brown’s connections this morning to race at Saratoga Race Course in the Grade 1 Woodward on August 30, and they declined the invitation. I am disappointed by the news. I read this morning that... Posted Aug 13 2008, 05:30 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Curlin, Saratoga, Big Brown, Belmont Park, IEAH Stable, Jess Jackson, Woodward Stakes, Jockey Club Gold Cup

• A horse surrounded by clowns

  Saratoga Springs, New York No telling what condition Big Brown is in after his less than impressive Haskell Invitational but Michael Iavarone, who head IEAH Stable, backed down in the face of a challenge from Curlin’s owner, Jess Jackson, to face what... Posted Aug 13 2008, 04:41 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Curlin, Saratoga, Big Brown, Rick Dutrow, Belmont Park, IEAH Stable, Michael Iavarone, Woodward Stakes

• Jackson to Iavarone: Let's rumble

  Jess Jackson, majority owner of Curlin, 2007 Horse of the Year, invites Big Brown to race Curlin in the Grade 1, $500,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Courseon Saturday, August 30. Jackson has committed to donate $50,000 from the Jackson Curlin for... Posted Aug 13 2008, 10:06 AM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Curlin, Saratoga, Big Brown, IEAH Stable, Jess Jackson, Woodward Stakes

• The acid test of Big Brown's legitimacy

  Saratoga Springs, New York The gauntlet has been thrown down by Jess Jackson. Curlin will race next at Saratoga Race Course, Aug. 30, in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes and the door is open for trainer Rick Dutrow and the IEAH family of boiler-room penny... Posted Aug 05 2008, 01:53 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Curlin, Saratoga, Big Brown, Steve Asmussen, IEAH Stable, Jess Jackson, Woodward Stakes

• Big Brown: Here we go again

  From NYRA Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown breezed six furlongs in 1:10.86 under exercise rider Michelle Nevin this morning at Aqueduct Racetrack, his best move since returning to training following the June 7 Belmont Stakes. “Every work... Posted Jul 26 2008, 03:04 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Aqueduct, Big Brown, Rick Dutrow, IEAH Stable

• Dutrow on Kentucky positive: D'oh

  Rick Dutrow trains 25 horses for Michael Dubb and his various partners as well as all the horses owned by IEAH Stable. Dubb plays the claiming game. IEAH owns Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, Benny the Bull, currently the nation’s leading... Posted Jun 27 2008, 03:21 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Big Brown, Steve Asmussen, Rick Dutrow, medication, IEAH Stable, EPO, Gary Contessa, Michael Dubb, Peter Ferriola, Oscar Barrera, Bruce Levine

• Belmont: Denial of the slicksters

  The post-mortem reaction to the Big Brown debacle on Saturday is unanimously and justifiably lacking in sympathy for the humans attached to the failed Triple Crown bid. No matter how you look at it, the horse Rick Dutrow sent into the Belmont was less... Posted Jun 08 2008, 11:35 AM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Big Brown, Belmont Stakes, Rick Dutrow, IEAH Stable

• Friday notes / Anybody's Sheepshead Bay

  The Met Mile holiday weekend, also known as the Memorial Day weekend, is underway Saturday at Belmont with an uninspiring and paceless renewal of the 11-furlong Sheepshead Bay Handicap, which will be contested on the inner turf course by two fillies and... Posted May 23 2008, 03:54 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Big Brown, Casino Drive, IEAH Stable, Sheepshead Bay, Monmouth Park

• All Big Brown all the time

  Between now and June 7, the Big Brown watch will somehow maintain a full-blown hysteria as newspaper editors and television producers spare no flight of fancy in examining the minutia beyond the minutia. Once, a day or two before Funny Cide would attempt... Posted May 20 2008, 04:43 PM by Paul Moran at the races Filed under: Big Brown, Belmont Stakes, IEAH Stable