By now, you've surely heard: Barbaro will be buried at Churchill Downs. You really need to see how poorly everyone handled it at the press conference.

Yes, it has been a year since 2006 SHOTY winner Barbaro galloped off this mortal coil. Actually, Barbaro's not gonna be buried; he has already been cremated, and the ashes will be interred — that's a verb you only use when referring to ashes — outside Gate 1.

We've learned so much in the last year; it seems as if it were only yesterday. How young we were back then! How little we knew!

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