It wasn't long into the ninety-minute journey that we were both doing neck-breakers, mouths wide open, saliva dribbling down chins, much like every other early-morning passenger off for a day's business in Berlin, except that they reeked of aftershave and sported suits and pressed shirts.
Most of the guys looked like freshmen, and were dressed in sportcoats or pressed shirts and ties.
It was a dressy area: men walking the pavements were dressed smartly in trousers, pressed shirts with creases up to the collar, and ties.
Baffert, 46, says he is different than the funny guy who, at his first Derby in 1996, cut a startlingly fresh figure with his white hair, John Lennon-shaped shades, pressed jeans and starched shirts.
He wears dark suits and pressed white shirts.
Largely cleanshaven, they wear shiny leather wingtips, pressed pants and starched shirts, and carry collegiate-style backpacks outfitted with mesh water-bottle holders, or those small, wheeled suitcases favored by flight attendants.
A rotund, amiable man who speaks fluent Arabic and unaccented English, he wore dark suits and pressed white shirts to trial.
Skilled operators can also press shirts and pants (trousers) on a mangle.
He arrived at Walnut Hill on the appointed day with a duffel bag filled with new and neatly pressed J. Crew shorts and shirts for the trip south.
One threat to stability in Iraq after any war to remove Saddam Hussein takes the form of a dapper 45-year old man, educated in the United States and fluent in English, who has a yen for cologne, pressed shirts and silk ties.