Radioguy wrote:

On Jun 7, 7:17 pm, Tex wrote:
One of the best. Grew up watching the Wide World of Sports and who can
forget Jim McKay's intro "the thrill of victory and the agony of
defeat" as the skier plummeted head over heels down the snowy
hillside.

The sad irony is he passed on the same day Big Brown was attempting to
win the triple crown in the Belmont Stakes. Big Brown must have sensed
Jim's death - his heart was too broken to run today.

Nonsense. The horse had been on steriods but was taken off before the
race. I suspect he we was on a steroid "downer" and could not perform
as his owners wanted.

It looked to me as though the jockey was holding the horse back.

I was watching the race with a gal who owns 3 horses, and that was her reaction as well.