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Originally Posted by Cunningham Racing
...that Barbaro is better on the dirt than Bernardini and would have defeated him in the Preakness?
Barbaro was hands down probably the best turf 3YO in the world this year and maybe the best turf horse in the world period, but I am very comfortable saying that he wanted no part of Bernardini on the dirt.
Preakness (check in a runaway)
Jim Dandy (check in a public workout)
Travers
Jockey Club Gold Cup
BC Classic
Horse of the Year
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Joel, I respect your knowledge, but by posting this you are basically just asking people to challenge your opinion. These two horses met one time together on the track and one horse ran about 400 yards and couldn't keep going.
No one, including yourself, knows what Barbaro would have turned into. Would he be a dominant superstar? Sure, thats possible. Could he have been a so called "one hit wonder". Sure, also somewhat plausible, but less likely. All in all, likely somewhere in between.
That being said, no one (again) can say who would have won on that day back in May. Bernardini romped, we all saw it. I think he ran a 113 or 114, what have you. I'll go on record with my opinion, I don't know if Barbaro could have hung with him that day, two weeks off his Derby effort. I think it would have been a spirited drive for the wire.