Bernie

[Betsy]

Originally Posted by seconditis

High Cotton was the Cat's only chance for this race. He needed to get the lead and either burn Bernie up or help block him on the rail. Nice race by the Cat, he gave it all he could, but no way he was gaining into those fractions.

BC is a very good horse, but he's not nearly as good as Bernardini and that has more to do with the result than the fractions do.

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by Betsy

BC is a very good horse, but he's not nearly as good as Bernardini and that has more to do with the result than the fractions do.

Exactly. BGC ran a very nice race, probably as good as his Haskell. He beat the rest of the field by more than 6 lengths. If Bernardini were not in the race, BGC would have looked like a dominating winner.

Bernardini is just at a completely different level.

--Dunbar

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by Dunbar

Exactly. BGC ran a very nice race, probably as good as his Haskell. He beat the rest of the field by more than 6 lengths. If Bernardini were not in the race, BGC would have looked like a dominating winner.

Bernardini is just at a completely different level.

--Dunbar

We owe something to BGC in my opinion. the fact that he showed up and gave it his all against Bernardini helped us all to validate that ones true ability.
No shame at all in his effort, he was beaten only by a horse universally regarded as something very special, a freak.

[Betsy]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

We owe something to BGC in my opinion. the fact that he showed up and gave it his all against Bernardini helped us all to validate that ones true ability.
No shame at all in his effort, he was beaten only by a horse universally regarded as something very special, a freak.

Exactly, and that's what Steve Crist had written in his DRF piece. He hoped for BGC to show up and run hard and well because, although Bernardini had been brilliant in his wins, there were some things to pick apart (hurt, tired rivals in the Preakness, relatively sub-par competition in the Jim Dandy) if one wanted to. Bernardini beat a very good horse in BGC, and easily. He's some horse.