Why do people care if they retire Bernardini or not. If you say it is selfish of them to retire the horse then aren't you being selfish for wanting the horse to race??? All of our stars are retired too early in my opinion. Smarty, Alex, Point Given, Ghostzapper etc etc. I know some had injuries, but with time off they could have come back to race. With the exceptions of Smarty and Alex, most of our stars are owned by people with big bucks so money isn't a problem but it is a factor when retiring a horse.

What I like to think is that most owners take the money they earned and put it back into the industry by buying more horses. I certainly think that the Sheikh puts just as much money into the sport than he takes out. So I have no problem with him when it comes to racing. What I don't like is that a couple of outfits have raised the price for horses and certain people are unable to compete. But this is part of life.

I would rather see the offspring of Bernardini run than Bernardini himself. Imagine the next 10 years of little Dini's running around. I am sure that he will be able to produce a couple of nice off-spring.

Good luck to Dini in the BCC. He deserves to be there and I hope he wins. He seems to be a fantastic horse and I hope we really get to see the horse all out on Nov 4th regardless of the margin of victory or defeat.

Don't confuse him with facts.

Well George (and I assume your handle is after the horse and not the original man since he was a slave owner)...this country has much to be ashamed of as do all cultures, we had slavery, we still have racism, we do have a class structure...but none of that means a person can't speak out against injustice WHERE EVER IT HAPPENS! I have plenty to say about conditions here...and I catch hell for it! I marched with Dr King in the 60's so I don't need someone to lecture me on racism...were you there? I opposed Viet Nam as a member of SDS, were you at the meetings? I served my country in that war when drafted...was that you in the foxhole next to me? I've rescued scores of horses and adopted as many as I could, how many rescued thoroughbreds do you have? And I actually lived in that region with members of my grandmother's family...you "visited" and saw what foreigners are suppose to see! I lived on the streets (and under them) of NYC as a homeless person for a couple weeks so I suspect I know as much about the "other America" as you do...and yet, cause I could walk away at any time I couldn't experience the hopelessness and would never claim to understand that world completely...you want to make assumptions about folks and claim hypocracy...look in the mirror! Under your rules, only "perfect" people can be critical of evil...well, there's a lot of evil in the world and no perfect persons so I guess we should ignore the problems???

It is simple. I'm a fan of horse racing, not a fan of horse breeding. I couldn't care less about his offspring running in ten years. We have a potentially great horse and will only get to see him run for one frickin year. This is why the sport is so hard to market.

Part of being a fan is getting excited about the potential of a sire. Like it not not, breeding plays a HUGE role in our sport. I get just as excited during sales than I do during a race. I am totally pumped to see The Green Monkey race (if he ever makes it--I hear he is as Belmont now and had a recent work). I would love to see Dini race for another couple of years, but I also understand his importance to the sport as a sire.

When a track is souped-up ... even a nonentity like Monarchos can shade 2:00 for 10f.

If the track is legitimate ... Bernardini won't come close to the record ... if it's a Monarchos track ... anything can happen.

Sharp post.

Suggestion ...

... change your site name to karlmarx.

... or vladimirilyichlenin.

.. how about josefvissarianovichstalin?

I've got it ... iwannabehillary!

Bold Brooklynite so many of those jokers have shared id's its hard to tell which one of them is on at any given time.
its more like www.completebull****.com

I clicked on the link you provided ... and nothing was there.

A very appropriate metaphor for what's inside these guys' skulls.

I wonder if the track will be souped-up on Breeder's Cup Day. ;)

That's very fitting.

From what I hear the track is going to be as fair as possible. It wont be like concrete when it is Derby day, but a nice track. Usually when the track is like this, the rail is dead. Of course this all depends on the weather.

Euro, what are they going to say? They we will soup the hell out of it. C'mon....Maybe it will be perfect, but they don't even admit the horse s.hit they pull on Derby Day which in 2001 cost horses their careers and even lives. Someone should've been arrested for that.

I have some land to sell you too. Where did you hear this anyway? I doubt they are going to comment on the track. With Henny Hughes and Bernardini running, both track records are in trouble. I can assure you some people in the KY breeding business would love to see Bernardini take down that track record.

Is that more inside info? Thanks man, I would never have guessed that they would scrape a track on a big day down there, thanks a lot.