Rabbit Out
 

No Spanish Chestnut in the JCGC, folks.

It's such a shame too, considering how Bernardini definitely would've "hated being far back" and would've "died in the stretch."

We might be looking at a four-horse field even if Sun King runs.

Is everyone that scared of Bernardini? Ya gotta face him sometime...

Another romp for Bernardini. Definitely not his fault, but still...

It'd be nice to see if he can run the same way against some decent horses. I hope Sun King runs.

What, nobody thinks Andromeda's Hero will give Bernardini a run for his money?

I'd like to believe that, Slot. Hey, you never know... I DID dream that a chestnut won the JCGC. AH is chestnut. :D

Bad news for all of the closers in the race. Where is the other pace in the race with Spanish Chestnut out? Bernardini is going to be allowed to set those easy fractions and coast home yet again.

Snooze..... Paceless race with a small field, oughta be a stellar event.

I guess this will be a cake walk for Bernardini, oh well, he gets no competition again. I was looking forward to this Saturday, maybe I'll take in a movie instead, this will be a very boring race.

On a positive note, he'll roll here and he'll have to face some competition in the BC, maybe a good thing for the non-believers...

I don't know about you, but my dreams never work out too good. This year, I dreamed that a really dark bay horse won the derby, red chestnuts came in second and third, and a medium bay got fourth. Now, the medium bay did get fourth, but, well, you know how the rest worked out...

I'm really glad that they pulled Spanish Chestnut out of the race. It wasn't fair to the horse.

well hell if the almighty "mineshaft" was running against 2nd rate and below horses every1 would have their bvd'z in a twist waitin to watch

Mineshaft at least faced bigger fields, imo he's a better horse than Bernardini, his Stephen Foster was amazing considering how he was ridden and how wide he was...

This is playa's MO, all he does is bash Mineshaft. I happen to like playa, but it does get old---a one trick pony.

really big fields huh, when he did run in those he lost like in the foster and quit cryin about robbies ride in there, whats the excuse for losing to balto star?

Old Balto was a multiple graded stake winner, can't say that much of Bernardini's competition...

Can't really argue with what Robbie did at the start, he had an outside post and had to gun, but he kept him wide on a quick pace, PD is no slouch and got a perfect ride, but Mineshaft took the worst of it...

how many grade 1's did balto win on the dirt? LOL nice comment bout the 1 trick pony, i like you also randy and it aint the horses fault the connections didnt have the stones to run in the BCC because they knew what would happen

Yeah, those were some huge fields he faced at Belmont all year. Four horses in The Woodward, four horses in The JCGC. I have no idea how he managed to find his way through all of that traffic.

Jokes aside, I think you're right that it's a negative going into the BCC that Bernardini won't have been battle-tested (unless Dylan Thomas freaks on the dirt). I know he's a monster, but I've yet to see how he responds when someone looks him in the eye.

Not going to get back into it, but the Balto race was basically his first race back in his 4 yr old season and the fractions were dirt slow. No way he could make up the ground. He got better as his 4yr old season went along....I believe he got hurt before the Br. Cup. Who knows?

He was dodged like no horse I have seen. Horses wanted to face Ghostzapper more than Mineshaft. He raced what 10 times as a 4 yr old. Not much you can do when they don't show up.

well its all who and what you believe randy. i dont believe my fav horse point given was retired due to injury

I guess they didn't want to run an injured horse on that hard track in the BCC...

Playa always bashes Mineshaft, he probably has a dartboard in his house with a picture of Mineshaft on it, I picture him doing pullups with Mineshaft tattoes on his knuckles like Deniro in Cape Fear...

At least he hasn't gone crazy and told us that the Bears are going to be like the '72 Bears and go undefeated, Scavs has that market cornered...

He is consistent, I give him that. He likes to poke me, I realize that. No problem. I get a kick out of it.

I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just saying that Windu's point that "Mineshaft faced bigger fields" than Bernardini isn't really accurate.

Where does it say Spanish Chestnut is not running?? Looked four different places and no one says it

dont get me wrong mineshaft was a helluva horse i just woulda liked to have saw him against the best on bc day like im sure every1 else here wanted to as well, lol i just dont rate the horse as high as randy. i dont hate any horse not even empire faker LOL! i dont hate cope with honor whos in our barn and kicked me this summer at arlington when he went nuts 1 day becuz of something outside the barn when i was walking the horse

Did you try DRF?

By DAVID GRENING
ELMONT, N.Y. - Bernardini, the leading 3-year-old in the country, worked five furlongs in 1:03.33 Tuesday morning at Belmont Park, his final move in preparation for Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup. Exercise rider Simon Harris kept Bernardini even farther off the rail than usual, in part because of his dissatisfaction with Belmont's main track and in part because several horses had worked before him and the inside part of the track was chewed up.
Though Belmont's main track was listed as fast, Harris said the track had plenty of moisture in it because two water trucks went around during the renovation break. Harris said the track was still drying out from weekend rains.

``Today it was wet, but you were going right through it and I didn't like it at all so I probably erred on the side of caution than what I normally would,'' Harris said.

Bernardini got his final quarter in 24.71 seconds after going the opening three furlongs in 38.62 seconds.

``He's coming into this race as good as ever, today's work was just routine,'' trainer Tom Albertrani said. The Jockey Club Gold field remained in flux on Tuesday. The only other confirmed runners as of Tuesday morning were Dylan Thomas and Andromeda's Hero.

Trainer Patrick Biancone said Spanish Chestnut is not running. Trainer Nick Zito has not made a final decision on who he is running besides Andromeda's Hero.

He had bigger fields than Bernardini in the NO Handicap, KEE, Pimlico Special, and the Stephen Foster. The fields at Bel were small, that's true...It's not Bernardini's fault the field will be small in the JCGC, I don't believe the whole Invasior thing, but that's not his fault...

I'm sorry SC isn't going, because I'd prefer that Bernardini run at a target, but who knows?

Like with Mineshaft, it's not Bernardini's fault that the trainers of older horses are ducking him. They clearly feel that, whatever his competition, he's an exceptional horse. I think he'll be fine in the Classic, but I would really have much preferred that a test in the Gold Cup. Oh well - as long as he's healthy, I'm not going to complain.

does it list a reason for not running SC? is it b/c he doesn't want to face bernardini?

He won his return race at Golden Gate this March and was 3rd in the True North (G2) on the Belmont undercard to Anew and Tiger. Also ran 3rd last out in the Lure Stakes at Belmont in a race off teh turf and was 3rd in a Toga allowance won by Awesome Twist. So, his post Derby record is

6-1-0-4-$97,550 - ITM 5 of 6 tries

i dreamed a black horse won the derby one year...i was rooting for the chestnut, and then sunday silence walked by in the post parade and my stomach sank....
and then a few years ago it was a chestnut. swore it was peace rules...but no, it was that other chestnut.