Who is Peter Brette? Barbaro knows!

Peter Brette, 40, excercise rider and assistant trainer for Derby winning trainer Michael Matz is a former English jockey who had a long riding career in Dubai. Here are some excerpts from various articles around the web. I think that Barbaro is lucky to be teamed with such a great pair of horsemen like Matz and Brette.Brette was born and raised in the northeastern part of England in Stockton-on-Tees. The town dates to 1138 and is set on high ground close to the northern bank of the River Tees. His uncle worked as the "head lad" for trainer Tony Hyde at the famed Newmarket racecourse. At age 14, during an Easter vacation, Brette paid a visit and his uncle gave him a leg up on one of his horses and told him to ride. Two years later, Brette left school to begin a jockey apprenticeship in which he would ride four or five sets a day. Then he launched his professional career.
"When you enjoy what you’re doing, you learn quickly," Brette said. "It’s a natural progression. You want to be the best." After a couple of years, Brette moved over to the stable of one of England’s leading trainers - Michael Stout. "He had good horses and you learn so much from talented horses," Brette said. "It’s sort of like going from driving a Honda to a Ferrari."
Brette rode for five years in England before following a Tony Hyde associate to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to work for trainer Bill Mather. Arriving in 1986, he was offered a winter contract to ride for Godolphin Stable, which races some of the best-bred 2-year-olds in the world. Based in both Dubai and Newmarket, Godolphin was set up by Dubai’s ruling family, the Maktoums, with Sheik Mohammed the driving force behind the operation. Dubai is the most populous of the emirates and the second largest in terms of size. "I went over there with an open mind and found them to be superb people to work for," Brette said. "It’s a beautiful place to work and live, a bit like living in Disneyland. The people were brilliant and very good to me."
Sitting aboard top stock, Brette thrived on his wits and smart game plans. The leading jockey on the Dubai circuit in 1990 and runner-up in 1994-95, he spent his final four years in Dubai also working as an assistant trainer. His wife Kim, who is from Zimbabwe, was an assistant trainer and rider in England. They met again in Dubai and married. They have a 2-½ year old son, Nicholas. While Brette rode lots of top-quality horses in Dubai, none compare to Barbaro.
"Without a doubt, he’s heads-and-shoulders above them," Brette said. "When Sheik Mohammed heard about Barbaro, he said, Wow.’ The last time he said that was over Dubai Millenium."
Dubai Millenium was considered a superhorse in Europe on the grass, a kind of Secretariat.Brette believes Barbaro is going to be as good or better. "When he runs on grass he has those amazing gears," he said. "But because he was talented on the turf, I wondered about him handling the dirt. It’s very hard to repeat that on the dirt. But the way he ran in the Florida Derby, we knew he was something very special. He went in as a boy and came out a man.