2008 Kentucky Derby follow up questions

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Originally Posted by Soaring Softly

Quoted from Jay Hovdey's piece in Sunday's DRF:

"Big Brown is as good a 3-year-old champion as we've seen in the last decade."

And, though he wasn't named Champion, there was Barbaro(2006). Big Brown might stand on his tip-toes and punch Barbaro in the knee!

In Barbaro's Kentucky Derby, the field seemed to be strong with contenders like Jazil, Sinister Minister, Sharp Humor, Sweetnorthernsaint, Bluegrass Cat, Lawyer Ron, and Brother Derek. Perhaps I've missed some others.

Barbaro's victory after watching again was more impressive than Big Brown's victory from the stretch to the wire. I still might argue that Big Brown positioning himself to the stretch from post 20 vs. Barbaro doing it from post 8 is worthy of my continued discussion here. In that hypothetical scenario, I am fairly sure Barbaro would have beaten Big Brown by 2 - 2/12 lengths. If Big Brown was in the 9 post, I think he has a chance to make this an incredibly close race.

Regardless of my comments above, I do have another question in reference to the 2006 Kentucky Derby. Why weren't Discreet Cat or Bernardini entered in that race? If they were, that field would have been completely loaded.