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((short description|American Thoroughbred racehorse))
((more citations needed|date=April 2018))
((Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Bernardini
| image =<!-- Deleted image removed:  [[Image:Bernardini.jpg|200px|((ifdc|1=Bernardini.jpg|log=19 May 2009))]] -->
| caption = Bernardini in the [[Jockey Club Gold Cup]]
| sire = [[A.P. Indy]]
| grandsire = [[Seattle Slew]]
| dam = [[Cara Rafaela]]
| damsire = [[Quiet American (horse)|Quiet American]]
| sex = [[Stallion (horse)|Stallion]]
| foaled = March 23, 2003
| death_date = ((dda|2021|07|30|2003|03|23))
| country = [[United States]]
| colour = [[Bay (color)|Bay]]
| breeder = [[Darley Stud]]
| owner = [[Darley Stable]]
| trainer = [[Thomas Albertrani]]
| record = 8: 6-1-0
| earnings = $3,060,480
| race = [[Jockey Club Gold Cup]] (2006)<br>[[Withers Stakes]] (2006)<br>[[Jim Dandy Stakes]] (2006)<br>[[Travers Stakes]] (2006)

'''[[United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing|Triple Crown classic race]] wins:'''<br>'''[[Preakness Stakes]]''' ([[2006 Preakness Stakes|2006]])
|awards= [[Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse|U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt]] (2006)<br>[[World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings|Co-World Champion 3-Year-Old]] (2006)
|honours =
|updated= January 23, 2007
))
'''Bernardini''' (March 23, 2003 – July 30, 2021) was a champion American [[Thoroughbred]] [[racehorse]] who won the 2006 [[Preakness Stakes]] and [[Travers Stakes]].

==Background==
A son of [[A.P. Indy]], he is out of [[Cara Rafaela]], who won almost a million dollars during her racing career.  Her sire was [[Quiet American (horse)|Quiet American]], who also produced [[Real Quiet]], a horse that came within a nose of winning the 1998 [[Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing|Triple Crown]].

Bernardini was trained by [[Thomas Albertrani]]. He was owned by [[Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum|Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum]], Vice President and Prime Minister of the [[United Arab Emirates]] and ruler of [[Dubai]].

== Racing career ==
Bernardini's racing career began at age three at [[Gulfstream Park]] where he finished 4th in a maiden race. After a lung infection kept him from racing for 2 months, he came back with a 7((fraction|3|4)) length win in a Maiden Special Weight over one mile at Gulfstream. On April 29, he easily won the [[Graded stakes race|Grade III]] [[Withers Stakes]] prior to going to the Preakness. Bernardini won the [[2006 Preakness Stakes]] by 5((fraction|1|4)) lengths in a time of 1:54.65, in the same race where [[Kentucky Derby]] winner [[Barbaro (horse)|Barbaro]] suffered the hind leg fracture that ultimately led to the Derby winner's death.

After his Preakness win, Sheikh Mohammed decided that Bernardini would not race in the June 10 [[Belmont Stakes]], which meant that for only the 4th time in 60 years, neither the Kentucky Derby winner nor the Preakness winner was in the field.  A spokesman for Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stable said that "...(Bernardini) climbed the ladder of competition quite quickly" and that "he deserves the break." Bernardini returned to the races on July 30 at [[Saratoga Race Course]] with a 10-length victory in the [[Jim Dandy Stakes]] over Minister's Bid.  On August 26, 2006, he won the [[Travers Stakes]], also in Saratoga, by 7 lengths over [[Haskell Invitational]] winner and Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes runner-up, [[Bluegrass Cat]]. In the October 7 [[Jockey Club Gold Cup]], Bernardini earned a 117 Beyer figure in a winning effort.

In the 2006 [[Breeders' Cup Classic]] at [[Churchill Downs]], Bernardini tracked near the lead and passed the frontrunner, [[Brother Derek]], at the quarter pole. He fought to hold off [[Invasor (horse)|Invasor]] at the sixteenth pole but fell short by a length, finishing second.

He won the [[Eclipse Award]] for [[Eclipse Award for Outstanding Three-Year-Old Male Horse|3 Year Old Male of the Year]] for 2006 and was retired to stud at Darley.

==Stud record==
Bernardini has sired 16 individual [[Group One|Group/Grade 1]] winners.

He was euthanised at [[Jonabell Farm]] in Kentucky on the 30 July 2021 due to complications from [[laminitis]].<ref>((cite web |url= https://www.racing.com/news/2021-08-01/news-breeding-leading-stallion-bernardini-dies |title=Leading stallion Bernardini dies |publisher=racing.com |accessdate=8 September 2021))</ref>

===Notable progeny===

''c = [[colt (horse)|colt]], f = [[filly]]'', g = [[gelding]]''

{| border="1" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%"
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
| width="35px" | '''Foaled'''
| width="120px" | '''Name'''
| width="35px" | '''Sex'''
| width="510px" | '''Major Wins'''
|-
| 2008
| A Z Warrior
| f
| [[Frizette Stakes]]
|-
| 2008
| Biondetti
| c
| Premio Gran Criterium
|-
| 2008
| Stay Thirsty
| c
| [[Travers Stakes]], [[Cigar Mile Handicap]]
|-
| 2008
| To Honor And Serve
| c
| [[Cigar Mile Handicap]], [[Woodward Stakes]]
|-
| 2009
| Alpha
| c
| [[Travers Stakes]], [[Woodward Stakes]]
|-
| 2009
| Boban
| g
| [[Epsom Handicap]], [[Emirates Stakes]], [[Chipping Norton Stakes]], [[Doomben 10,000]], [[Memsie Stakes]]
|-
| 2010
| Ruud Awakening 
| f
| [[Ellerslie Sires Produce Stakes|Diamond Stakes]]
|-
| 2011
| Dame Dorothy
| f
| [[Humana Distaff Stakes]]
|-
| 2011
| Go Indy Go
| f
| [[Champagne Stakes (ATC)|Champagne Stakes]]
|-
| 2012
| Cavorting
| f
| [[Test Stakes]], [[Ogden Phipps Stakes]], [[Personal Ensign Stakes]] 
|-
| 2013
| Greenpointcrusader
| c
| [[Champagne Stakes (United States)|Champagne Stakes]]
|-
| 2013
| [[Rachel's Valentina]]
| f
| [[Spinaway Stakes]]
|-
| 2014
| Capezzano
| g
| [[Al Maktoum Challenge, Round 3]]
|-
| 2014
| Takaful
| c
| [[Vosburgh Stakes]]
|-
| 2015
| Angela Renee
| f
| [[Chandelier Stakes]]
|-
| 2017
| [[Art Collector (horse)|Art Collector]]
| c
| [[Woodward Stakes]], [[Pegasus World Cup]]
|-
| 2017
| West Will Power
| c
| [[Stephen Foster Stakes]]
|-
|}

Bernardini's success as a sire has attracted many top broodmares and racemares. On January 26, 2011, [[Jerry Moss]] and his wife Ann announced that Bernardini would be the first mate of the 2010 Horse of the Year when [[Zenyatta]] was booked to him later that season. She foaled a colt, Cozmic One, in March 2012. He has been a disappointment on the track, finishing badly in both of his starts. Zenyatta's dam and 2008 [[Kentucky Broodmare of the Year]] [[Vertigineux]] produced a debut-winning Bernardini filly named Eblouissante in 2009.

Visiting Bernardini in 2012 were 2009 [[Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year|Horse of the Year]] and [[Eclipse Award for Outstanding Three-Year-Old Filly|American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly]] [[Rachel Alexandra]] and 2010 [[Eclipse Award for Outstanding Three-Year-Old Filly|American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly]] [[Blind Luck]]. The 2013 filly produced by Rachel Alexandra, Rachel's Valentina, is a Grade I stakes winner and was runner-up to American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly [[Songbird (horse)|Songbird]], and widely considered the second-best two-year old of either gender in 2015.

Bernardini was euthanized on July 30, 2021, after complications from laminitis. He was 18.<ref>((cite web |url=https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/251926/bernardini-succumbs-to-laminitis-at-age-18 |title=Bernardini Succumbs to Laminitis at Age 18 |date=July 30, 2021 |website=Blood-Horse |access-date=July 31, 2021))</ref>

==Racing record==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Date
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Race
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Track
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Location
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Distance
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Surface
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Condition
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Finish
|-
|January 7, 2006
|Maiden Special Weight
|[[Gulfstream Park]]
|[[Hallandale Beach, Florida]]
|6 fur.
|Dirt
|Fast
|4th
|-
|nowrap|March 4, 2006
|Maiden Special Weight
|Gulfstream Park
|Hallandale Beach, Florida
|1&nbsp;mi.
|Dirt
|Fast
|1st
|-
|April 29, 2006
|[[Withers Stakes]]
|[[Aqueduct Racetrack]]
|[[New York City, New York]]
|1&nbsp;mi.
|Dirt
|Fast
|1st
|-
|May 20, 2006
|[[Preakness Stakes]]
|[[Pimlico Race Course]]
|[[Baltimore, Maryland]]
|1((Fraction|3|16)) mi.
|Dirt
|Fast
|1st
|-
|July 30, 2006
|[[Jim Dandy Stakes]]
|[[Saratoga Race Course]]
|[[Saratoga Springs, New York]]
|1((Fraction|1|8)) mi.
|Dirt
|Sloppy
|1st
|-
|August 26, 2006
|[[Travers Stakes]]
|[[Saratoga Race Course]]
|[[Saratoga Springs, New York]]
|1((Fraction|1|4)) mi.
|Dirt
|Fast
|1st
|-
|October 7, 2006
|[[Jockey Club Gold Cup]]
|[[Belmont Park]]
|[[Elmont, New York]]
|1((Fraction|1|4)) mi.
|Dirt
|Fast
|1st
|-
|November 4, 2006
|[[Breeders' Cup Classic]]
|[[Churchill Downs]]
|[[Louisville, Kentucky]]
|1((Fraction|1|4)) mi.
|Dirt
|Fast
|2nd
|}

==Pedigree==
((Pedigree
|name = Bernardini
|f = [[A.P. Indy]]
|m = [[Cara Rafaela]]
|ff = [[Seattle Slew]]
|fm = [[Weekend Surprise]]
|mf = [[Quiet American (horse)|Quiet American]]
|mm = Oil Fable
|fff = [[Bold Reasoning]]
|ffm = [[My Charmer]]
|fmf = [[Secretariat (horse)|Secretariat]]
|fmm = Lassie Dear
|mff = [[Fappiano]]
|mfm = Demure
|mmf = [[Spectacular Bid]]
|mmm = Northern Fable
|ffff = [[Boldnesian]]
|fffm = Reason to Earn
|ffmf = Poker
|ffmm = Fair Charmer
|fmff = [[Bold Ruler]]
|fmfm = [[Somethingroyal]]
|fmmf = [[Buckpasser]]
|fmmm = Gay Missile
|mfff = [[Mr. Prospector]]
|mffm = Killaloe
|mfmf = [[Dr. Fager]]
|mfmm = Quiet Charm
|mmff = [[Bold Bidder]]
|mmfm = Spectacular
|mmmf = [[Northern Dancer]]
|mmmm = Fareway Fable
|))

==References==
((Reflist))
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060818170636/http://www.ntra.com/stats_bios.aspx?id=17965 Bernardini Statistics and Media], [[NTRA]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080323165014/http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=36257 Bernardini's retirement]

((Preakness Stakes Winners))

[[Category:2003 racehorse births]]
[[Category:2021 racehorse deaths]]
[[Category:Preakness Stakes winners]]
[[Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky]]
[[Category:Eclipse Award winners]]
[[Category:American Grade 1 Stakes winners]]
[[Category:Thoroughbred family 4-m]]

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