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Originally Posted by todko

Bernardini doesn't impress me one bit -- Brother Derek should have been rested after the Derby and same with SNS. Both were shot from their Derby efforts. Brother Derek took forever to get back to the track and ran poorly his first time back. SNS was so wiped out that he still hasn't made it back to the races. SNS was staggering down the stretch in the Preakness, Derek folded before the turn, and Bernardini looked a lot better than he should have.

Donna Brothers called it before the Preakness. She said both BD and SNS didn't look good.

In the Jim Dandy, Sunriver was injured. The rest of the Jim Dandy field were allowance horses at best.

Bernardini ran through slow fractions in the Travers (gimme a break -- 48 and nearly 1:13), was urged strongly, hit and urged, yet didn't come home in any riveting fashion. After those fractions, if Bernardini was truly "very special" or "gifted" or whatever Albertrani and his hype machine has been calling him, he should have cooked home in :22 or so. A healthy Bluegrass Cat would have run away from. Bright One would have been in the next county by the time Bernardini hit the wire. Discreet Cat would have been long gone.

Bernardini has just been very lucky so far. He's no superhorse. If the shieks let Invasor run he'll beat Bernardini.

To use the excuse that Brother Derek and SNS were spent is nonsense. They were not the better horse that day at all. In fact Brother Derek has been nothing since racing outside of Cali. Are they the only two horse in history to ever run in derby Preps and run in the first two legs of the TC? Look at Afleet Alex's run last year. Ran in three derby Preps and all three TC's races. To say they were "tired" as an excuse is just that an excuse. They were beaten soundly by a much better horse. At if you research boodhorse.com and plug in SNS you will find the reason you have not seen him is because the trainer is keeping him as far away as possible from Bernardini. I dont' think he is a "Super Horse" yet either but to not give him any credit just because of SoCal absolutly dismal preformances in all the major races for 3 yr olds in just being stubborn to adimit you're wrong.