Da'Tara wins the Belmont.
But if you watched the race on ABC/ESPN, you'd be completely without that information.
What you got instead was at least eight uninterrupted television minutes of Big Brown losing. All the interviews went with the loser. All the video went with the loser.
And Da'Tara, the winner? You couldn't even find the horse's name on the screen. And when it showed up, it was underneath Big Brown.
When the cameras finally picked the winning horse up, the winner's circle was pretty empty. The family, the trainer, the track rep. And that was it. And they were all walking away, the ceremony over.
Some belated yelling in the background, and some last minute circling of Da'Tara as they tried to get an interview set up, was laughable.
The trophy presentation smacked of last-minute makeups.
Truly a disgrace.An insult to the winner.
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