I do! I was dazed after the Preakness, wasn't even sure who won the race...and didn't care! After watching replays, I was very impressed but still felt that Barbaro would have won...! Bernardini's next race was a paid workout and frankly, so was the Travers. Not his fault that he's the best 3yo in training but still...people here constantly ask "who did he beat" when talking about past horses, yet some are willing to anoint this guy as the "greatest ever"...lets watch a couple more races!

anyone who thought barbaro ran an incredible derby and was absolutely awed by his performance, which stacked up historically against so many others...and with the supposed curses he sneered at....well, it'll be hard not to look at bernardini and not wonder what if. (and don't forget, his margin today compares to barbaros margin in MAY)

it is too soon to call him the best ever, the best in years...who here will move him ahead of tiznow right now? over sunday silence? unbridled, alysheba?? affirmed, seattle slew, secretariat, the bid, ap indy???? not me!

No he's not (what horses are?), but he certainly is at least as good (if not better) than AA or Smarty Jones.........I'd like to know what track records they broke or champions they beat. This colt has the potential to be something very special.......but, there will always be skeptics

And I disagree about Bernardini merely beating a horse who was taken out of his game. Bluegrass Cat was taken out of his game precisely because JV knew that there was no way his horse could possibly win otherwise. Bernardini BC change tactics.......that, to me, says tons about what kind of horse he is. Now Bernardini is going to be penalized because he did merely what he was supposed to do? Hmm, after the Haskell, most people were saying that BC was as good as Bernardini that day and would give him a tough test. Now they're backtracking and detracting from Bernardini because, with 20/20 hindsight, Bernardini was the better horse?

terrorist sympathizer?

I've posted it many times ... but I'll do it again ...

You're never as good as you look when you win ... or as bad as you look when you lose.

Keep everything in perspective.

Good to know it isn't just me. Thanks Somer.

To be honest, I am thinking Bernardini is one of the best out there right now. But really do we have a Ghost Zapper, Secretariat, Bid, etc... running right now? Does Bernardini have what it takes to be as good as these horses were? Yes. Is he there in my book? Not yet. But he has the potential too.

Believe me, I have everything in perspective.

In no way do I think he is the best horse on the planet, and he will lose.

maybe the best 3 in the last 15-20 years if you believe Bellamy Road's Wood win.....this is debatable to know end, but he has been quite a bit of talent for a guy that isn't in the upper-echelon of riders in America (are percieved to be)...

I think bernardini is better than the Zapper...I really do if you look how easily he is winning right now and not even being asked for his best and being so lightly raced and young in his career...he'll only get better which is really freakin' scary....

Better than Holy Bull?

I said it's "the most that can be said" ... setting an outer limit for the goo-goos ...

... not that it's necessarily true.

My posts must be read slowly and carefully ... studied, in fact ... because every word ... every phrase ... is a well-conceived gem ... to be enjoyed like fine wine.

Yeah, i really like your racing stuff.

I want to see him beat older horses. The talent is there but I like to see them beat really good horses before we say one way or the other. It will be an interesting fall to say the least.

....yesterday looked like a paid workout, i would take sunday silence or easy goer as my choice of 3 year olds but no doubt bernadini is amazing.

I'm under no illusion that Bernardini is the next Bid or Big Red, but that's no knock on the horse. He's still a relative baby and he's shown potential for true greatness - that's what excites me. Isn't that why we watch horse races? This should be a fun thing, watching Bernardini go through his paces and possibly join the ranks of great horses. We don't get this caliber of horse very often- I'm going to enjoy it.

I will say that I think it's unfair for his races to be somewhat denigrated by having them called mere public workouts, as if he didn't put any effort into them. Bernardini is winning so easily because he's so good - he shouldn't be penalized for being incredibly talented.

calling a race a public workout isn't denigrating at all...

I really should have edited my post as soon as I entered it. Let me say that no one here has denigrated Bernardini's performance yesterday - denigrated was a poor choice of words on my part.

What I really meant to say is that I've seen comments (not necessarily on this board) that Bernardini hasn't been tested yet because his races are public workouts. Well, that's possibly true, except that he did face a couple of challenges from BC yesterday and shrugged them off. He passed that test. However, if he's going to be a great horse, he's got to pass several tests. The Gold Cup is a huge race for him........what a day that's going to be.