"I had no horse," Desormeaux said. And so it was. That the lasting image from Saturday's 140th Belmont Stakes won't be of a weary Da' Tara, a 38-1 shot, staggering home in the final sixteenth of a mile, heroic but desperate as he searched for the finish line to complete a shocker for the ages, but it will be jockey Kent Desormeaux pulling up Big Brown.
So now what to look forward to? The Twins? Oh, no, they're below .500. The NBA finals? The Lakers are already down 2-0. The presidential election? Five long months away.
There is of course that pesky million-dollar carryover at Belmont on Wednesday, and always the possibility of a Curlin-Big Brown match-up, but I won't hold my breath. My fantasy horse racing season is also coming to a conclusion, and I have most certainly adopted the "we'll get 'em next year" attitude.
Maybe I'll just keep reading the Clinton obituaries, they continue to make me smile. This one was the best of the day.
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