The Albertrani Effect

Originally Posted by Bold Reasoning

If I were lucky enough to own a racehorse, I would like Albertrani to be the trainer. Bernardini has it in his genes, but he needed Tom Albertrani to do the right things with him.

The horse was so impeccably bred and talented that I feel that another trainer might actually have gotten a whole lot more out of him. First, after the walkover in the Preakness, how could he possibly have been allowed to skip the Belmont. An AP Indy colt going 1 1/2 against that level of competition should've been a cakewalk. Jazil has proven that he was even a greater classic winning fluke than Giacomo. Then, for his final Breeders' Cup prep race, he basically puts him in a position for a public workout rather than shipping him somewhere, anywhere, he could actually be tested. When it came time for his big test against a prime time horse, he failed because of lack of fighting skills more than anything else.