Crybaby dutrow

Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. talked the talk all week before the Belmont and continued to boast about how Big Brown was continuing to flourish. He even was so bold as to tell reporters the Belmont was "a foregone conclusion."

The Belmont should be a lesson in humility for Dutrow, who continues be a poor ambassador for the sport with his brash conceitedness, frequent doping-related offenses, irresponsible remarks about the medications his horses run on ("You'd have to ask the vet what the purpose of that is," he told a reporter about the drug Winstrol. "I don't know what it does. I just like using it."), and his poor sportsmanship.

Dutrow also questioned the training regimen John Servis put his Smarty Jones through en route to the Belmont saying, "I think that the connections of Smarty Jones just were not smart in order to get their job done for the Belmont. They should have played it a lot safer, a lot better." How interesting it is to note than Smarty Jones lost the Belmont by only a length, while Big Brown finished dead last in his edition, beaten double-digit lengths by the victorious Da'Tara.

He had plenty of bravado earlier in the week but when his horse ran up the track on the big day Dutrow sulked and refused to speak with reporters, which makes the Patriots' Bill Belichick look like a true sportsman by comparison (after the latter's walk-off in February when he refused to watch his team go down at the hands of the Giants).

Well, the racing gods have spoken and they don't seem like cheaters, especially arrogant ones with 33-page rap sheets.