OK, so I was wrong.

Big Brown did what I didn't think he'd be able to do--he shot out from the start to keep a good position on the corner and stay out of the mob. That was about the only way it could happen.

I figured out the problem, though--Mike Battaglia was also a Big Brown skeptic, ribbing his co-commentator about "drinking the Kool-Aid". You can bet anything you have that if Mike Battaglia and I agree on something, it can't possibly be the case.

Eight Belles, though--that sucks. It took a hell of a horse to place in this field, and on another day or with less of a mob scene she might have taken it. They haven't really said yet what happened to make her break down, but it's weird for it to happen after the race.