The Mayday Massacre
Joe Mercer on Brigadier Gerard dropped like a thunderbolt on the leading horses to turn the 2000 Guineas, boasted as the classic mile of the century, into a May-Day massacre of the favourites. That these superb rivals could be so ruthlessly exterminated seemed beyond belief, but it happened. And, beyond all doubt, victory went to the best horse. . . a long way the best.
Tom Forrest
Sunday Express
The moment Joe appeared it was all over. Behind them the Brigadier, named after Conan Doyle’s second most favourite character, the brave but braggart French cavalryman, was poised to deliver a charge of which the Hussars would have been proud.
They finished together, but he was three lengths clear and going away, as decisive and brilliant a winner as has been seen.
John Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph