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Originally Posted by Danzig188
well then apparently one hundred percent of the posters here are sympathizers, since everyone is in agreement that he's a very fine racehorse!!
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A fine racehorse indeed but lets not get carried away here...he went 2:01.60 today, setting a rather pedestrian pace and was clearly better than the field. His one challenger, Bluegrass Cat ran his race and tried to pressure Bernardini but nothing else was a factor from start to finish. Bernardini ran the following fractions: 23.53, 24.64, 24.55, 24.11, 24.77...very workmanlike and more than enough but this was not a real test for this horse! Against older horses, he will have to do more! Can't get a feel for how the track was speed-wise today as all the other dirt races were 7f or less...seemed about average at the shorter distances, grade one 7f went in 121.96, a NW2 Alw in 121.95 earlier. Compare this race with replays of the Derby with fractions of 46 flat, 110 4/5 and a final time of 201.36...different track, different everything...not trying to compare times but Barbaro's Derby was so much more impressive visually to me! Lets not play "New kid in town" here....Bernardini is a special horse and may prove to be a great horse, but he's not better than The Bid and Secretariat, not yet proven to me that he's better than Smarty Jones or Afleet Alex! Right now, I still think Barbaro is the best we've seen this year...lets see what happens in the JCGC and the BCC. One last thing...the horse was 2-5 today...this was not a surprise! He faced one legit G-1 horse and that horse was taken out of his normal running style to provide early pressure....