Big Brown was the odds all favorite to be the winner past Sunday. With all the hype, it wasn't a question of "if he would win..." rather "by how much?" Big Brown would win. The one horse that actually had a chance to beat him had been scratched the day before thus making it an even surer win for Big Brown. Bidding to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978, Big Brown sat in third for most of the race but had nothing left at the top of the stretch and finished last in the nine-horse field. Jockey Kent Desormeaux, who pulled up the previously undefeated Big Brown in mid-stretch, offered no excuses"He was keen to go on early," said Desormeaux. "He broke so hard. I got him out early and he just cantered down the backside."A couple of times he thought it was time to go and jumped into the bridle. But I had no horse. He's the best horse I've ever been on so I took care of him."It was hot as hell out there. There were no popped tires. He was just out of gas." Kentucky-bred Big Brown had won all five of his previous races by a combined 39 lengths and had beaten Da' Tara by 23 lengths at the Florida Derby.Da' Tara, a Nick Zito-trained colt winning for just the second time in eight starts, paid $79 for a $2 win ticket as the horse with the highest odds on the board. The Kentucky-bred entered the race with earnings of just $64,000 but earned a $600,000 paycheck for the Belmont victory. "I was watching Big Brown," said Zito, also the trainer of Anak Nakal. "Obviously, he wasn't Big Brown." Not only did Big Brown lose, but he finished dead last. There is alot of speculation on why he lost, post your opinions here.