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Originally Posted by Danzig188
not just last on dirt, but last race.
i was talking to a lady at work--everyone knows my love of the sport, and have all been offering condolences to me btw--and i told her he was one in a million...he wasn't the best ever, but when you consider how well he handled everything thrown at him, his intelligence and willingness to put up with all those pesky humans, and all his talent he showed in his racing....he was a special horse. out of all the horses everyone has rushed to get retired so they can make babies--i'd have taken him over any of them, any day of the week.
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I agree...pure speculation on my part of course (like everyone else) but I think he wins the Triple Crown and goes on to defeat older horses in the fall, the only question would have been whether he raced at four. Recent history strongly suggests that he would be retired but yet, I wonder. Bernardini is a nice horse but he was exposed in the BCC...look him in the eye and he folds! Barbaro would have looked him in the eye at the top of the stretch at Pimlico and would have encountered as much resistance as the French army gave the Germans...Barbaro was indeed a "once in a lifetime horse".