Injured hoof not expected to keep Big Brown from Belmont

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05/25/2008 - Elmont, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown has a quarter crack in his left front foot, but he's not expected to miss the June 7 Belmont Stakes.

Big Brown, trying to become thoroughbred's 12th Triple Crown winner, is the first three-year-old since Smarty Jones in 2004 to go into the Belmont Stakes with a chance to sweep the three races.

"We'd seen a little spot on him yesterday morning, but it wasn't any way of me saying it was a quarter crack, very questionable," trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. said at a news conference. "Now it's a definite quarter crack and Ian (McKinlay, hoof specialist) is explaining to me that he'll be able to have it fixed up by Thursday, Friday."

Dutrow said he was told by McKinlay that the injury is nothing to be concerned about.

"He is telling me it is nothing and he'll be fine in a few days," Dutrow said. "The time between the Preakness and the Belmont, the first two weeks, don't mean a whole lot."

Should Big Brown win the Belmont Stakes he would become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.

"It scares us when something like this happens, but I've got Ian assuring me and it's going to go down like clockwork," Dutrow said. "It's going to be good and he's still going to run the same race."

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