Theoretical Question-Barbaro

[Buffymommy]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

I agree...pure speculation on my part of course (like everyone else) but I think he wins the Triple Crown and goes on to defeat older horses in the fall, the only question would have been whether he raced at four. Recent history strongly suggests that he would be retired but yet, I wonder. Bernardini is a nice horse but he was exposed in the BCC...look him in the eye and he folds! Barbaro would have looked him in the eye at the top of the stretch at Pimlico and would have encountered as much resistance as the French army gave the Germans...Barbaro was indeed a "once in a lifetime horse".

I agree with Somer. Barbaro had a look of arrogance about him, like he knew how good he was. He was that smart. IMO, Berni wouldn't have stood a chance.