Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown retired

Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown has been retired after suffering an injury during training at Aqueduct yesterday.

The Rick Dutrow-trained colt, who also won the Haskell Invitational and Monmouth Stakes this summer, was expected to face 2007 Horse of the Year Curlin in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on October 25.

Michael Iavarone, co-owner of IEAH Stables, said: “He not only tore the bulb off his foot, but half the foot was torn off. We did everything we could to get to the Breeders’ Cup.