Now does anyone still believe?...

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by moodwalker

I sure wouldn't want to speak for Oracle, but I bet he would give him credit if the horse actually wins the BCC and HOTY.

And I will follow suit....

Now if Mayan King gets HOTY, I am going to just start following Nascar or something.

You people are acting like this is an attack on Bernardini, and that he has already won the whole kit-n-kaboodle.

2 races.

I think this stuff is a reaction to the Barbaro incident, with everyone wanting to replace him with "something special."

I didn't hear this last year about Flower Alley, because everyone knew that Afleet Alex could smoke him.

But in my opinion, Bernardini is currently a "Flower Alley 2, electric boogaloo" type of horse.

i think bernardini fans are a bit defensive, seeing every post not singing his praises as an attack..fact remains i haven't seen one post critical of the horse!! not one. however, i have seen posts saying withhold judgement on the horse as to his position in history. yes, everyone is saying he ran a heck of a race. two actually. and everyone seems eager to see more of him. but there still seems to be a problem for some reason.

[Danzig]

i know i personally haven't agreed that it was a weak field....many others have pointed out (correctly) that he didn't beat the best of this years crop in this race.
i haven't seen any criticisms of the horse. not many on the field he faced. i think most of it is directed to the hysteria building around bernardini.

yes, we enjoyed his race. he looked really, really good and won it easily.

it's just most of us aren't yet saying he's the reincarnation of citation. nor are we ready to concede a win in open company. anyone who has watched this sport for very long knows how hard it can be for a horse to step up the next level. hell, i hope he does it. it'd be great to see. but i'm certainly not going to offer any guarantee on it happening!