The Belmont Stakes trainwreck behind him and the future uncertain, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown on Tuesday at Aqueduct had his first breeze since he was pulled up in the final leg of the Triple Crown on June 7. The move was extremely slow, five furlongs in 1:06.60 with Michelle Nevin...

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 sprinter, Kip Deville, the leading American turf...

Have we had enough yet? A horse trained by Rick Dutrow, the Darth Vader of racing, tests positive for twice the prescribed limit of clenbuterol in Kentucky. A Steve Asmussen-trained horse tests positive for lidocaine in Texas. Jeremy Rose slashes a mare across the eye in a race at Delaware Park and is...

The vilification of Kent Desormeaux continues with none other than Gary Stevens piling criticism of his performance astride Big Brown in the Belmont Stakes on the pyre. Enough already. Stevens offered the opinion that Big Brown should have been sent to the lead at the outset. Trainer Rick Dutrow: I can...

From NYRA On a warm and sunny Sunday morning, Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito stood outside Barn 12 at Belmont Park and happily reported that Da’ Tara, upset winner of the 140th Belmont Stakes over Triple Crown hopeful Big Brown, came out of the race in great shape, along with his stablemate, Anak Nakal...

Another year, another chance at a Triple Crown, and the results are the same. Trash. Nothing but trash. Millions are howling today as small fortunes were lost betting on what appeared to be a “sure thing” in the Belmont. What happened? What went wrong? How could the unthinkable have happened...

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 than 100 percent and there is no way to look past...

There is a Santa Claus. Immaculate conception. Big Brown has been given no steroids since leaving Florida. Rick Dutrow does not know what steroids do, but likes to use them. (Well, the second part is certainly believable.) The hole in Big Browns left-front hoof is of no concern. Steroids make no difference...

Trainer Rick Dutrow said that Big Brown’s gallop on Saturday was, “the best since he’s been here” and that with a return to regular daily exercise, which was interrupted last week by a crack in the wall of his left-fore hoof, has brought the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner “back to his old self....

Triple Crown history is made in many shapes and forms. This interview of Big Brown’s trainer, Rick Dutrow, was conducted on Friday morning at Belmont Park by Jill Rappaport, of the Today Show. and is now considered a candidate for worst interview of a trainer in Triple Crown history. The transcript:...