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Michael Matz, Barbaro's trainer, back in Kentucky Derby with Union Rags (St. Petersburg Times)
**Times wires** Thursday, May 3, 2012 LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Michael Matz and his assistants are tired of the question -- most trainers and riders are by this point in the week before the country's most talked-about horse race -- and give mostly a perfunctory answer. "He's just a really nice horse," exercise rider Peter Brette said of Union Rags, one of the favorites to win the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. "He's a nice, classy horse." He's also the most scrutinized in a field that fascinates even the sport's longtime observers. Union Rags passes every look test and has failed to win only two of his five races, by a total of 1½ lengths. The way he faltered in those races has been the topic of much discussion, though. Seemingly the best horse in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in November at Churchill Downs and the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach in late March, he controlled neither race and, worse, appeared to shy from making his move when he needed to. "We realize that what we see as real excuses other people might see it a different way," Brette said. Matz and the rest of Union Rags' ...
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