On a cool January morning in 2006, assistant trainer Peter Brette led me down the shed row of Michael Matz’s barn at Palm Meadows Training Center (Fla.) and introduced me to every horse.
There were stakes-caliber mares, reliable allowance horses and unraced, unproven colts and fillies full of endless promise.
And then there was Barbaro—well, before he was the Barbaro we know and remember today.
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