The one thing that scares me
 

About Bernardini's post..

3 Bernardini Javier Castellano Tom Albertrani Even
4 George Washington (IRE) Mick Kinane Aidan P. O'Brien 10-1

I have no confidence that a Coolmore horse is going to let a Darley horse (especially a monster Darley horse) get off to a clean break. None. This worries me considerably.

Interesting thought..

but why comprimise the chance of their own horse.. especially one of GW's caliber.

Man I completely agree and I don't think CD stewards can do anything to Kinane but deal with his placement in this race.

and they are really going to sacrifice a horse of GW's caliber in order to play spoiler in a 4 million plus race? Come on.

Save the excuses for when he loses.

Veering in at the start doesn't really compromise the chances of GW, or at least the effect it would have on GW pales in comparison to the amount of damage it could possibly do to Bernardini.

I've heard the explanation for running in the BCC rather than the BCM as being "Winning the BCM would not do as much for his stud value".. I believe that's partly true, but I feel like the other reason is to see if they can beat the supposedly invincible Darley horse.

All I'm saying is watch the break closely. I hope I'm wrong and no funny business goes on, but I'm leery.

BTW,does anybody know the story about what went on with Librettist in the QE2? That trip,and real obvious intentional bump coming into straightaway was no accident,and I remember Dettori was furious about it.

It can potentially do damage to BOTH horses and could lead to possible injury. They arent going to try that with a horse as valuable as GW.

Right. We'll see.

I agree. I think it's pretty obvious that entering GW in the classic was a chance for Coolmore to try and beat the Sheik's, but I highly doubt they'd injure their own horse to do it.

I may be wrong here but from what I recall they used their lesser value horse to do the dirty work to help their more valuable horse. I can't see them risking a horse like GW just to try and take out Bernardini.

Yeah I think the Coolmore gang are the lowlife pieces of **** in this rivalry. :rolleyes:

will dini favor inside rail trip or swing out a little and check back in after the dust settles at start?

Wow.. Who says GW gets injured? Every time I watch a break where one horse comes in on the other, the inside horse is ALWAYS the one worse for the wear. Always.

Yeah, it's just the evil Darley guys and the Coolmore guys are too busy simonizing their halos to get into any of that. Give me a ****ing break.

I hope they both dead heat for last. I want to see degenerate gamblers who overbet cry like little girls.

I thought I heard GW was a bad gate break horse, shouldn't matter if that's the case...

Yeah it's really a non-issue unless Bernarjesus stumbles out of the gate.

berni will just laugh and then roll...........no problem man..id be more scared of oracle cursing a fave down the lane...lol

Bernardini's only loss came when he was on the inside, may be nothing because that was his first start and not his ideal distance, but he isn't used to have many horses on his outside...

lobster horse runs in the ninth at aq...