for all the people out there who proclaimed that there was no chance in hell that big brown could lose, including his fat sweaty trainer...
... there is a reason why no one's won the triple crown in 31 years. the first two legs are hard, and the belmont is probably harder than the first two combined. there was nothing wrong with big brown. he just wasn't the best horse on this particular day.
why?
who knows. it's a horse. he coulda had a bad bag of oats and the morning and just didn't feel like going that hard today. he ain't mr. ed, so you just do not know, and never will. was he the best horse on paper? absolutely. but even the best human athletes don't always win, for whatever the reasons... here we're talking about a horse. he very well coulda just said "ya know what, it's 90 degrees out, fuck this... i ain't runnin' hard."