Loose Shoe Cost Big Brown Triple Crown

New photos implicate wobbly footwear in Belmont letdown

By Dustin Lushing

Posted Jun 23, 2008 1:32 PM CDT

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Loose Shoe Cost Big Brown Triple Crown — Bloodstock agent Frank Lyons, left and owner Michael Iavarone hug Big Brown following the 140th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. on Saturday, June 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Big Brown may have lost the Triple Crown because of a dislodged shoe, newly released photos appear to show. The extreme close-ups reveal a loose shoe on Big Brown's right hind hoof about 200 yards into the June 7 Belmont Stakes. "The picture shocked me," one of Big Brown's owner tells Newsday.

"When the shoe spread, a nail could have been pinching him," said Michael Iavarone. "Or he could have been stepping on a hot nail, which would have been worse."

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