Lets get it out in the open, I'm tired of dancing around it. Bernadini is a deserving champ, and any talk of him not getting the Eclipse is garbage, even Matz said so.
But people forget developmental growth, and how it translates to performance. Barbaro was lightly raced heading into the Derby, and responded with a huge win in which he annilhated 19 other horses. Anyone who thinks with his pedigree especially that he wasn't gonna just get better is high.
Lets have it out, who thinks Bern is champ is Barb doesn't go down?
I say no way. I say Barbaro was more talented.