All eyes on Big Brown at Preakness

BALTIMORE (AP) - Like any true A-lister, he kept the masses waiting for hours.

Then Big Brown made his grand entrance.

Accompanied from the airport by a police escort with sirens flashing, the dazzling colt pulled into the Pimlico Race Course shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday and headed for the prime spot of real estate on the grounds - the corner barn occupied each year by the winner of the Kentucky Derby.

For added flair, two UPS trucks flanked the convoy as it rolled through the gates, Those boxy, brown trucks had never made a delivery quite like this one.

Fans, horsemen, the media - everyone, really - had waited...