Well, I don't think anyone can or should take anything away from Barbaro; however, and I said this in an earlier post before the derby, taking Brother Derek out of his style was a losing proposition. No one can say he would have beaten Barbaro, but his style would have played VERY WELL into the race flow and track bias that day. The track favored outside speed/stalkers and BD would have had the perfect trip. That being said, I've seen Solis do this a thousand times in races, and he often gets away with it because he usually rides the superior horse in small fields in California, not the case in the derby. I guess only the Preakness will tell for sure if BD is really legit, provided he goes in that race. I'll never for the life of me understand why trainers and riders always want to SLOW horses down when the fastest horse wins the race. Do they sit down before the race and say, "now, how do we get our colt to run slower? He's always running so fast, and we can't have that!" Sometimes horses are just so much smarter than people.