Jockey Club Gold Cup

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

Don't talk bad about my Roses in May. He's the horse!, and he was very good in his own right. Running a second that was only three lengths off of GZ's 1:59 flat 1 1/4 mile race is proof enough that Roses in May was a very good horse.

You are absolutely right. Roses in May was a very good horse. He would have won the BC Classic many other years. He happened to get unlucky and run against possibly the best horse of the last 20 years. I think GZ's performance in the BC Classic was the best perfomance ever in the BC Classic.

With regard to Bernardini, he is obviously a great horse. I don't think Invasor would have any shot against Bernardini. I would make the over/under on how may lengths Bernardini would beat Invasor by at about 3 lengths minimum. That is a conservative estimate. If they ran in a match-race, I think Bernardini would beat him by at least 5 lengths.