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Originally Posted by oracle80
Bernadini couldn't have warmed up Holy Bull for that matter, those 47:4 and 48 half miles would only have had him about 15 lengths behind the big grey Bull.
One of my earliest remembrances was watching Affirmed and Alydar in the belmont with my grandfather and father. I was 9 years old, and only understood that it was a famous race, etc. But I stil remember my grandfather wanting Alydar to win and just saying the other horse is better after they hit the line. I wasn't a fan yet though and I didn't truly understand or appreciate what I was seeing.
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I was on the third floor at Belmont for that Belmont Stakes. Those were very exciting times.
I can still remember Affirmed's win in the Jim Dandy. I was sitting around the sixteenth pole, and Sensitive Prince ( who may not have seemed like a killer then but I would venture a guess would be drooled over on internet boards should his likeness show up now ) had a FIVE length lead at the eighth pole, and Affirmed ran him down in what was his first start after the Belmont.
And, frankly, the recovery Alydar made in the subsequent Travers, regardless of what camp you are in as to whether or not he could run down Affirmed if they were eye to eye, was spectacular. Not quite as spectacular, as the decisive move Alydar made at the top of the stretch on the way to his seven length destruction of the Whitney field ( of which JO Tobin was a member ).
Man, THOSE were good racehorses.