Rizzi’s Twist blew past Under Serviced and Jovanna and won the fifth race at Belmont Park on Saturday. Bruce Levine keeps rolling along and it has been a long roll through the Aqueduct winter, the spring at Belmont and summer on both side of the Hudson. Along the way, he has raised both eyebrows and...

From NYRA On a warm and sunny Sunday morning, Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito stood outside Barn 12 at Belmont Park and happily reported that Da’ Tara, upset winner of the 140th Belmont Stakes over Triple Crown hopeful Big Brown, came out of the race in great shape, along with his stablemate, Anak Nakal...

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...

Trainer Rick Dutrow said that Big Brown’s gallop on Saturday was, “the best since he’s been here” and that with a return to regular daily exercise, which was interrupted last week by a crack in the wall of his left-fore hoof, has brought the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner “back to his old self....

If Big Brown is said to be afflicted by a “slight” quarter crack on the inside of the left-fore hoof, it is reasonable to assume that his condition is more serious than his people acknowledge in public. Nothing is more dependable at the racetrack than a high level of cynicism that begins with the universal...

If he was a study in brash confidence before the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Rick Dutrow, may be making room in his home already for the Belmont Stakes trophy he expects Big Brown to earn along with the first Triple Crown in 30 years. “Our horse is doing so well right now, I can’t imagine him being...

Shortly after Big Brown brought the house down at Pimlico on Saturday a one-work email from a friend arrived. It said: Wow! It was most assuredly a performance rich in the wow factor and Big Brown is three weeks and 12 furlongs from the immortality that accompanies a Triple Crown. He is also three week...