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

[Smooth Operator]

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.

I love when stayers expose speed horses in the longer route races.

Yeah, the numbers guys were fawning all over Bernardini in that '06 BCC.

Invasor barely beat the mediocre Sun King in his previous race, iirc

Way too slow to handle the super fast B they said … lol

Don't get me wrong, B was a real nice colt, and clearly no cheap speed horse (would've loved to watch him run as a 4yo), but he ran into a buzz saw win machine that day.

Apparently the numbers guys haven't found a way to measure heart yet.


DISGRACEFUL that they continue to shorten theses races too … the Suburban being the latest victim

Probably doing it to accommodate all the cheap speed garbage that breeders seem to keep turning out year after year

Certainly not holding my breath waiting for that next TC winner to come along…