Sunday, 4 March 2012

Big Brown tops expected full field of 20 in a wide-open Kentucky Derby

Let others struggle to pick a winner for next Saturday's wide-open Kentucky Derby. There's no doubt in trainer Rick Dutrow's mind _ it's unbeaten Big Brown.

"He's the fastest horse in the race," Dutrow says of his Florida Derby winner, who has won his three races by a combined 29 lengths. "We're the horse to beat and I feel confident that we're going to win the race."

Dutrow might be right, but Big Brown will have to overcome more than a full field of 20 3-year-olds at Churchill Downs. The chestnut colt will try to buck history as well: The last Derby winner with just three races going into the Run for the Roses was the filly Regret in …

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