The short and sad life of Barbaro, the 2006 Derby champion who broke down during the Preakness and was kept alive for eight months, still weighs upon racing.

Conversely, Jones, Stephens and Jolley have saddled 10 Derby champions, and every one of them prepped elsewhere.

Tafel defied the staggering odds of having a Derby champion by going with a team approach and never wavering from it.

Terms of the match were to allow Zev to come upsides the Derby champion.

About how hard it is, despite some stakes wins, to breed a Derby champion.

This is the first Derby champion of the millennium, and if there is a lesson to take away, it may be one of speed, power and luck.

In the 2000 Preakness, Bailey rode Red Bullet to an upset victory over the Derby champion, Fusaichi Pegasus.

After all, he is a Derby champion.

According to the center's Web site, Rendell said that "our Derby champion is in the best place he can be for the road to recovery."

From 1985 to 1997, nine Derby champions lost in the Preakness.