Derek Ryan on Quality Road: "Look him in the eye and he's counterfeit"

[Betsy]

Originally Posted by johnny pinwheel

you can say this about alot of them and the stayers always get underestimated and no respect. blame is the newest one. they keep breeding quality roads and rachels and bernardinis...when the real runners are invasor, zenyatta and now blame....i still remember how bernardini and discreet cat were going to "beat up" on invasor. he was like 6 to 7-1 in the classic and pissed all over bernardini......he did the same to discreet cat. yeah the flash of speed is exciting,winning by open lengths(when they can) the number freaks love them but in a true classic battle, they usually wilt.

Are we talking about Godolphin's Bernardini or another Bernardini? Because Godolphin's colt was NOT a speed horse like QR. He was a stone cold runner, by the way. If Invasor is so great, then how do you say that a 3 year old Bernardini, who may not have even run his race, wilted? He beat every other horse in the race except one. That's to Bernardini's credit that he ran well against a great horse......