Last year, 50-1 long shot Giacomo won with a dramatic finishing kick. Just the opposite happened four years ago when War Emblem went wire-to-wire.

A few other Derby winning trainers are back — Shirreffs, who trains Giacomo, will send out A.P. Warrior. Barclay Tagg, who won the 2003 Derby with Funny Cide, trains Showing Up, unraced last year and 3-for-3 this year.

"There's only one Derby and he's only 3 years old once," Tagg said.

Barbaro and Showing Up are both owned by Gretchen and Roy Jackson's Lael Stable in Pennsylvania. It will be the first time owners send out two unbeaten horses in the same Derby. Smarty Jones in 2004 was the last undefeated Derby winner.

It was an interesting week for the Lawyer Ron connections. Ron Bamberger, the attorney the horse was named for by late owner Jim Hines, sold a share of the horse Thursday. The colt will still run in the blue and white silks of Hines, who died Feb. 21 of an apparent accidental drowning in the indoor swimming pool at his home.

The trainers say their work is done. Now, "it's up to the jockeys ... which is a scary thing," Matz said.

Prado and Solis are among the top riders in the business, but neither has a Derby victory: Solis is 0-for-14; Prado 0-for-6.

"I'm praying to God that Brother Derek is the horse," Solis said, hoping to end the longest Derby drought for a jockey.

Matz is looking for help from everywhere else: "It's up to the gods, Edgar and Barbaro."

And let's not forget the voice of the closers. Dan Peitz, who trains Steppenwolfer, has sounded confident all week. The colt has run behind Lawyer Ron in Arkansas in the Southwest, the Rebel and the Arkansas Derby.

"If it's a fast pace we could be about 20 lengths out," Peitz said. "We'll start picking them up about the quarter pole and, if he fires, we could get a piece of it — and maybe the whole thing."

Baffert, meanwhile, just shrugs.

"With 20 horse there's going to be all kinds of bumping and grinding," he said. "They might as well throw in some jumps in between."

Run for the Roses

132nd Kentucky Derby

Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky.

Post time: 4:04 p.m. MDT, Ch. 5

Purse: $2.2 million; winner earns $1.45 million