By Ray Paulick In the nine hours of Breeders’ Cup telecasts last Friday and Saturday, the strangest segment by far came during a brief interview between comedic sportscaster Kenny Mayne and Michael Iavarone, president of the IEAH stable that owns a majority of Big Brown, when Iavarone said he and...

The post-mortem reaction to the Big Brown debacle on Saturday is unanimously and justifiably lacking in sympathy for the humans attached to the failed Triple Crown bid. No matter how you look at it, the horse Rick Dutrow sent into the Belmont was less than 100 percent and there is no way to look past...

Between now and June 7, the Big Brown watch will somehow maintain a full-blown hysteria as newspaper editors and television producers spare no flight of fancy in examining the minutia beyond the minutia. Once, a day or two before Funny Cide would attempt to run the table, came a call from an editor suggesting...