I think the "broken heart" thing is just a poetic way of saying that it must have been very discouraging to Bluegrass Cat to be working as hard as he was to stay close to Bernardini, while Bernardini was going so easily. None of us made this theory up - Man o' War was considered to have broken John P. Grier's heart in the Dwyer (not that it was necessarily true, but that thought was out there at the time). Also, trainers say all the time that they enter their horses in spots to give them their confidence back.........why would they do that if there was no credence to the theory?
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