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The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner injured his right front hoof during a workout Monday and was immediately retired, thwarting an anticipated showdown with Curlin in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Big Brown overcame everything thrown in his way to win the $500,000 Monmouth Stakes by a neck over the second choice Proudinsky.

Philadelphia Park and Monmouth Park are in the running for Big Brown’s final prep before the Breeders’ Cup.

With Big Brown, the nation’s best 3-year-old, taking a pass on the Travers Stakes, 12 names passed through the entry box, potentially creating a large Travers field.

After the Curlin and the Big Brown camps issued challenges, proposals and counterproposals, the sport’s two biggest stars will most likely never meet.

Big Brown had just enough in his tank to grind out a one-and-three-quarter-length victory over Coal Play in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

Big Brown drew the No. 4 post Thursday after entries were taken for Monmouth’s signature race, which will be worth $1 million and is run at a mile and an eighth.

Much has happened in the seven weeks since the Belmont Stakes when Big Brown’s bid for the Triple Crown fizzled.

Concerned that he has been unfairly labeled a cheat, Big Brown’s trainer insisted that he did not purposely break any rules.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Big Brown’s co-owner Michael Iavarone rejected the notion Monday that his colt was suffering from steroid withdrawal when he finished last in the Belmont Stakes on June 7.