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I don't know who would have won that race. Sure would love to have seen it. I'd bet anything though that Barbaro would have been in the fight with Bernardini at the end. I thought the Preakness was Bernardini's best race, so it would have been tough to beat him. However, no one knows how good Barbaro really was. Everyone connected with the horse claims that we never saw anywhere near his best. I do know one thing for sure. We never saw a "tired" Barbaro. That was the most outstanding attribute about him. In the Derby, he walloped the field and never took a deep breath. In the winners circle, he did not even look wet. He had beat the best and never broke a sweat. There is a reason the Bernardini folks went after Barbaro in the Preakness. They wanted no part of that "Dynaformer" endurance going 12fl in the Belmont. If Barbaro had won the Preakness, he would have been 1-5 or 1-10 in the Belmont and we would now be celebrating the 12th triple crown winner. And the scary part...dirt was not Barbaro's best surface. Just a tragic loss for horseracing.