Like everybody else who watched the Florida Derby, my initial reaction to the dominating performance of Big Brown was, "Wow!"
Several factors made the five-length victory so impressive:
A) The fact that his time of 1:48.16 was less than a half-second off the track record, and was nearly a full second faster than Barbaro's winning time in 2006.
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