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Originally Posted by Danzig188
oh yeah...a comment albertrani made in that article i read puzzled me a bit...but now i think i get the connection.
he said he wasn't disappointed in bernardini....but what i didn't quite get, til now, is he said something about flower alley leaning on bernie a bit--and i wondered why he brought it up.
but then i just remembered, bluegrass cat was a pletcher...tommy really doesn't think pletcher only ran flower alley to try to mess up bernie, does he? or maybe i'm off base completely...just seemed strange in the context of the article.
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I just read that now in the Blood Horse update -I didn't take it to mean that Todd ran FA to mess Bernardini up. I think Todd is too good a horseman to do that and has too much respect for Bernardini. IMO, any trainer or jockey that goes out of his way to hurt a horse's chances, at the expense of his own charge, is despicable. I feel bad for Tommy, but he's done an outstanding job with Bernardini. I'm sure he's frustrated - I was envisioning a romp, and I venture to guess he was too or, at the least, a win.
I'm still frustrated this morning, but I don't feel as badly as I did yesterday. It would make my year if they were to announce Bernardini returning to the races next year - I hate "what might have beens". They leave a bitter taste in the mouth and an early retirement for this extremely talented horse would be the biggest "what might have been" in my sports fandom. Well, maybe next to the AP Indy scratch on Derby eve. That still hurts....now that I think about it, I wonder if Indy was underrated. He won the Classic against a very good field in a hand ride...........