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Saturday's Belmont Stakes wasn't the swan song for Big Brown. The three-year-old horse will reportedly race again. While they are still searching for an injury to explain the horse's last-place finish in the Belmont, his owners, IEAH, have decided to enter him in the Travers Stakes in Saratoga Springs on August 23rd. The Travers usually attracts the top three-year olds in racing and perhaps it will give us the much-anticipated Big Brown-Casino Drive matchup that was scheduled for last Saturday, but scratched when Casino Drive stepped on a stone.

The "Unusual MVA" yesterday afternoon involving racehorses on the Cross Bronx Expressway turned tragic. A 3-year-old gelding had kicked his hind leg through the trailer's floor while being transported from a stable in Ghent, NY to Belmont Park. Drivers noticed the horse's leg and got the trailer's driver to pull over.

On a windy day at Belmont Park, 18 year-old Fernando Jara rode Jazel to the horse's 2nd win ever. Jara was the youngest jockey to win the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown, since 1978 when Steve Cauthen rode Affirmed to the Triple Crown. 1978 also happened to be the last time the Triple Crown was won. Only 61,168 were on hand to witness the day's races. Despite the small crowd on hand, $8,958,323 was bet on races throughout the day.

Saturday evening, Smarty Jones was attempting to win the Triple Crown, something most people at Belmont Park wanted to happen. It was a chance for Smarty Jones to make history and a chance for the record crowd of 120,139 to witness history. Unfortunately for them, that didn't happen. Smarty Jones lost the Belmont Stakes - the "Test of the Champion" - to Birdstone.

Tomorrow evening, Smarty Jones goes for the Triple Crown at Belmont Park, looking to become the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to accomplish horse racing's biggest feat. The Triple Crown starts with the Kentucky Derby, followed by the Preakness Stakes, and finally the Belmont Stakes tomorrow. There is plenty of Belmont coverage from The Times, from Newsday, and from the Post. The official Belmont site also has a lot of information.

On Saturday, Smarty Jones set records as he won at Pimlico in Maryland. With his 11 1/2 length victory, Smarty Jones looks to become the first undefeated horse to win the Triple Crown since Seattle Slew in 1977. To do this, he will have to win the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown. Belmont's distance of 1.5 miles is often a tough test for the thoroughbreds, but Smarty Jones looked so strong on Saturday, that it is very possible that the public could see a Triple Crown. Since 1997, four other horses have had the chance to win the Triple Crown but lost in New York - Silver Charm, Real Quiet, Charismatic, and Funny Cide.