It was a superb, emphatic performance, and what made it the more stunning was that it was pulled off by a colt so humiliated and discredited in the Kentucky Derby that a number of
knowledgeable observers gave him little chance to win the Preakness at all.
Given Barth's own towering influence in these years, many
knowledgeable observers saw similarities between his theology and this, so to speak, «neo «Tertullianism.»