Bernie

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Great line!

any cream in that coffee?

yeah! oh yeah...but irish coffee is the best!! perfect after-dinner drink.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by Danzig188

yeah! oh yeah...but irish coffee is the best!! perfect after-dinner drink.

Now you're talking my language!!

[Danzig]

lol
there's a comedian who talks about irish coffee...says he likes his coffee like he likes his women...



full of booze!!

[ateamstupid]

Ha..

And might I add.. Ha.

[Suffolk Shippers]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

I'll bet Cunningham is in a full lather about this point.
His dream has come true, the dominance of the sheiks.

Hahahahaha Good one, Jim! He has a rod from here to Dubai.

Joking aside, I'm still not convinced this horse is the second coming. He has beaten approximately nobody and no one can truly measure this horse against the best or greatest because lets be honest:

A) this 3 yr old crop outside Bernardini and Barbaro is weak, and Barbaro is chillen in the ICU

B) The older horses arent exactly lighting things on fire, either.

Very likely that Bernardini wins the BCC, but in the end, he will be the class of whom he faced and not in the class of some of the greats.

[sumitas]

i just give a whole lot of congratulations to the Darley operation. they've earned their success and today was a historic day for them and horse racing.
fastest Travers winning time in 30 years according to Kenny Mayne.

[Thunder Gulch]

Lava Man, Invasor, Bernardini...let's get it on for HOY honors and to see who runs second behind Flower Alley.

[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.