Big Brown is a Monster!

What will you be doing in the early evening on June 7th? I hope its watching the Belmont Stakes so that you can witness the first Triple Crown winner in 30 years. If you watched Big Brown in the Preakness, and granted it was a weak field, you saw a horse that not only won going away with an extra gear to pull away from the pack, but by all accounts, a "freak", a "monster", that will certainly be the odds on favorite to be the newest Triple Crown winner. The first since Affirmed in 1978 which followed Triple Crown winners Seattle Slew in '77 and Secretariat in '73, so it was almost ho-hum back in the 70s. But we know now how difficult a challenge it truly is after watching nine other winners of the first two legs of the Triple Crown lose the Belmont since then. Great horses like Spectacular Bid, Pleasant Colony, Alyesheba, Sunday Silence, Silver Charm, Real Quiet, Charismatic, Funny Cide and Smarty Jones in '04. But were any of these Derby-Preakness winners called a freak or a monster as has Big Brown? Is it too much praise, too soon? As a sports fan, I know I'll be watching because Big Brown is an awesome athlete that is worthy of the praise in my book. I relish the opportunity to witness history and the fun that it will be picking the winning exacta and trifecta. After all, winning is fun!