Field Guide To Barbaro Messageboard Factions

If you’re like me, you’ve probably been following the Barbaro messageboard on the Tim Wooley Racing website incessantly for the past eight months, breathlessly refreshing every fifteen minutes or so in order to get the latest updates on America’s Favorite Horse™.

But the Barbaro messageboard is a confusing place no doubt, and newcomers may be a bit daunted at first. Fortunately, like most things, different cliques and factions have developed on the Barbaro messageboard, making it easier to sort through the clutter. While everyone there professes to be a FOB — that’s a “Fan/Friend of Barbaro,” natch — there are different interpretations of the life of Barbaro. (It’s kind of like early Christianity.) There are several groups, easily identifiable once you know the categories. For this exercise, we’ll just be using the people who comment on the Barbaro updates on Tim Woolley Racing. For purposes of this discussion, that’s the “Barbaro messageboard.” Posters can be in more than one group.

After the jump, a detailed look at the different factions on the Barbaro messageboard.

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