[Greg]

I haven't heard anything but speculation about why Big Brown did so poorly at Belmont, but I can add my own. I suspect it was his training.

The jockey said that early one, Big Brown wanted to run for it and he held him back. That confused the horse because he was used to pouring on the coals after a certain run so that when the jockey did tell him to run, he didn't know what to do.

There was also some speculation that it was because he didn't get his steroids. They had been training him with steroids but for the past couple of months they hadn't given them to him. I don't know why. The conversation implied that steroids were OK for horses to have but I don't know that, either.