Live From Churchill Downs: Meet Big Brown
May 2, 2008
I was just 3 feet away from the Jack Nicholson of horse racing. Maybe I should say the Emile Hirsch of racing as the aura is vast but the experience is not. "Big Brown" is as big a stud (Colt really) and a star as there is here in Louisville, Kentucky...after only 3 big races, he's favored to win the Kentucky Derby 3 to 1.
Sam Flood, the NBC Sports producer running the show out here for the network took me back to the stables. Multi-million dollar training stables, one after the other, it was impressive. But around "Big Brown" was crime scene tape and major security which now makes him the Angelina Jolie of horse racing.
I was star struck. The trainers let us in close enough to watch "Big Brown" walk in a slow circle around the stables...he had just gotten a bath and needed to air dry. Seriously.
"Why don't they towel him off?", some ignorant bystander says (me). "He has to completely dry" is the answer. Like if you towel off your hair, its still damp. And Brown must not be at risk of catching a cold in his stable.
Makes sense, I know.
Anyway, it was a thrill to meet "UPS" as he's been nicknamed. (What can Brown do for you?). Big Star, no publicist. |
| Posted by Billy Bush at 7:37 AM |
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