Big Brown

Stakes are highest for Orb in Preakness

2013-05-18 05:00:00

BALTIMORE — Horse racing's Preakness is a place of history and a bubble of hope. If you come here with a Kentucky Derby victory under your belt, as trainer Shug McGaughey and Orb have, you have little time to appreciate that history. You are...

Horse trainer Rick Dutrow sues to reverse ban on racing in New York

2013-02-27 13:14:00

Rick Dutrow, who trained Big Brown to Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes wins in 2008, has filed a federal lawsuit seekng to overturn his 10-year ban from thoroughbred racing in New York for drug violations. The lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn, says...

Who would win a race of the last 20 Kentucky Derby winners? [Video]

2011-05-05 16:33:36

Question of the day: Who will win the Kentucky Derby? [Updated]

2010-04-29 16:33:27

Question of the day: Who will win the Preakness?

2010-05-13 16:33:06

Baseball, booze and a send-off

2008-06-26 00:00:00

SO THE Blue Jay Sluggers cap their undefeated season -- no wins, no losses, 14 ties -- with a party in the park. It's a lavish display befitting today's modern athlete: food, gifts and groupies (in this case, the boys' moms). "Want some lemonade?" one of...

Big Brown can't deliver the goods in Belmont Stakes

2008-06-08 00:00:00

ELMONT, N.Y. -- It didn't happen, big time. Big Brown not only failed to win the Triple Crown, he finished ninth and last in Saturday's Belmont Stakes. Trying to become horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 30 years, Big Brown instead became...

Sports offered plenty of distractions in a difficult 2008

2008-12-27 00:00:00

It was a sports year that often seemed blissfully out of touch with the times, with Beijing staging an opulent Olympics amid the backdrop of an earthquake that killed tens of thousands and the New York Yankees' spending hundreds of millions on free agents...

Triple Crown: Impossible dream?

2013-05-21 10:00:00

After Kentucky Derby winner Orb finished in fourth place at the Preakness, we are on the longest drought ever for a Triple Crown winner ("Lukas kept prediction to himself: Oxbow," May 20). The last time a horse won a Triple Crown was Affirmed in 1978....

Orb is horse to beat and has made the rest of Preakness field an afterthought

2013-05-17 13:47:00

Shug McGaughey, the trainer for Kentucky Derby winner Orb, attributes his calm demeanor since that race to maturity. Had he made it to the Preakness with a Triple Crown chance at a younger age, the 64-year-old insists, the scene would have been...

With Oxbow's win, Orb's Triple Crown dreams dashed

2013-05-18 17:52:00

For all of his laser focus on Saturday's Preakness, Claude "Shug" McGaughey couldn't help but dream ahead to the possibility of his colt, Orb, going for a Triple Crown at his home track of Belmont Park in New York. "I wouldn't be telling you the truth...

Walkwithapurpose scratches, so Black-Eyed Susan left with Hall of Fame duel

2013-05-16 17:00:00

The top local entrant for Friday's 89th running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico took one wrong step on Thursday and had to be scratched. Walkwithapurpose, a Maryland-bred owned by Sagamore Farm in Glyndon, was expected to be one of the top...

Big Brown 's babies: the filly, left, stands in front of her mom, Foolish Kisses, as another Big Brown filly, right, stands near her mom Taft Lil Queen.

2011-07-08 00:00:00

At Thornmar Farm, Foolish Kisses, left, grazes with her filly by Big Brown at her side as Argentesque's colt by Artie Shiller stands by his mom.

2011-07-08 00:00:00

Foolish Kisses' filly sired by Big Brown is one of about 25 foals this year at Thornmar.

2011-07-08 00:00:00