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NEW YORK -- The other Cajun jockey, the one who didn't follow Paris Hilton on Letterman's couch, the one who spent the week heeding Belmont's killer track rather than offering bold guarantees, wasn't about to holler, "Told you so."

Kent Desormeaux had said Calvin Borel was naïve of the circumstances -- meaning he had no real experience with how Belmont's mile-and-a-half oval tended to be racing's Bermuda Triangle -- and when Borel promised that his mount, Mine That Bird, would win the third leg of the Triple Crown and spin Borel into racing history, well, Desormeaux noted that Borel might want to keep those things to himself.

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In a thrilling finish, a Bird won the 2009 Belmont Stakes, but it wasn't Mine That Bird.

Jockey Calvin Borel's historic bid to sweep the Triple Crown with two different horses was derailed, as Summer Bird upstaged the Kentucky Derby champ in the "Test of the Champion." Kent Desormeaux, the Hall of Fame jockey who was denied a victory at the 2008 Belmont Stakes, finds redemption in the end.

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If you thought trainer Rick Dutrow was an obnoxious loudmouth before Big Brown lost at the Belmont, you ain't seen nothing yet.

After refusing to speak to the media after Big Brown's big disappointment on Saturday, Dutrow has now broken his silence, and he puts the blame for Big Brown's loss squarely on the shoulders of jockey Kent Desormeaux, who, according to Dutrow, made Big Brown confused:

"I'm sure [Big Brown] didn't have any idea what the hell was going on going into the first turn the way he was switching him all over the damn track," Dutrow said. "I don't know what he was doing."

Um, Rick? Of course Big Brown didn't have any idea what the hell was going on. He's a horse. If horses had any idea what the hell was going on, they wouldn't need jockeys.

In any event, it's a low-class move for Dutrow to go around blaming Desormeaux after the loss. Desormeaux rode Big Brown to victory in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, and that got Dutrow his 15 minutes of fame. Now, thankfully, he'll fade away.