Whitehall, London - (Assinine Mess): Opus Dei omen watchers were sent scurrying for cover back to their sewerage ratholes last night after dual Kentucky Derby and Preakness hero Big Brown limped in last in the Belmont, as pathetic and flaccid an icon as the tragi-comic British Prime Monster he is named after.
The three year-old's Triple Crown attempt has also cost US punters as much in wasted bets as was lost by British taxpayers who bailed out Gorgon Brown's flagship bank The Northern Crock last year with £100 billion of public money.
No physical explanation for Big Brown's disaster has been found by vets, some of whom think that "something psychological" is to blame.
"You'll just have to wait until we get them whorse-whisperer shrinks into the stables," luckless Belmont jockey Kent Desormeaux muttered beneath his breath to reporters today.
This is the second time a major equine prediction based on the Bush-Blair/Brown-era has failed to deliver.
In 2007 Ireland's Coolmore Stud hero George Bush In Washington was declared a dead duck after failing to impregnate anything of his own species let alone the million-buck broodmares waiting to gestate.
Some believe his career ended up partly in a Belgian glue factory and partly in a smart Parisian restaurant where Cheval-Au-Beurre-Blanc is a noted delicacy.
