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Barbaro is back home at the track where he became a legend.
Barbaro's little brother is still waiting for his first win.
Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro will be honored at the site of his greatest triumph a week before this year's Run for the Roses.
Barbaro will be memorialized at Churchill Downs in the way owner Gretchen Jackson always pictures the colt: sprinting, all four legs off the ground.
The image of Barbaro blazing down the stretch at Churchill Downs, all four hooves off the ground as the powerful bay colt crushed the field in the 2006 Kentucky Derby, is seared in Roy Jackson's memory.
A Florida race track is honoring Barbaro by establishing a scholarship in his name.
So many people felt a stake in Barbaro's recovery. They imagined his pain, grimaced each time he faltered, took heart as each day passed and he was still alive, making painfully slow progress.
Barbaro had two steel pins placed in a bone in his right hind leg, a risky surgery that's the latest setback in the Kentucky Derby winner's fight for survival.
They've written Christmas carols for him. They've sent him "trees" made of baby organic carrots and green apples. Someone even gave him a Christmas stocking.
Barbaro was supposed to be taking on Bernardini and Lava Man in the Breeders' Cup Classic this week, with Horse of the Year honors at stake.
Barbaro is enjoying his change of scenery. For almost a week, the Kentucky Derby winner has been allowed daily outings outside his intensive care stall to pick his own grass, enjoy the warm weather and stretch his recovering legs.
Barbaro was doing "much better" Friday morning, a day after his veterinarian said the Kentucky Derby winner was a "long shot" to survive a potentially fatal hoof disease.
Barbaro's jockey said he spent days in tears after the Kentucky Derby winner's career-ending breakdown in the Preakness Stakes. "Of all the tears I have cried, if tears could heal a wound, Barbaro would be healed by now," Edgar Prado said Wednesday on the New York Racing Association's Web site. "I've been thinking about him and I've been crying on and off."
The fruit and floral deliveries for America's No. 1 horse patient, Barbaro, arrive almost one after the other.
Barbaro underwent more than five hours of surgery Sunday to repair rear leg bones he'd broken in the Preakness, calmly awoke from anesthesia and "practically jogged back to his stall" for something to eat.
Artist to unveil Barbaro statue in NYCAn art gallery wants to unveil a memorial depicting fallen Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro near Central Park this spring, close to where a carriage horse died after it was spooked by a street musician's drum and ran into a tree.
Peter Berg Saddles Up Barbaro FlickFilm will focus on the horse's eight-month fight for life. "Friday Night Lights" director Peter Berg is expected to direct "Gone Like the Wind," a Universal project about the late horse Barbaro.
Barbaro's Brother: A Horse to Maybe Put Your Money OnTwo weeks after his stunning victory, Barbaro the 2006 Preakness celeb, broke down leaving only legacy, no posterity.
Barbaro movie in the works for HBOThe New York Post is reporting that HBO has quietly begun production on a feature-length documentary about Barbaro, the horse that captured the public's imagination after winning the Kentucky Derby in 2006 and suffering a disastrous injury during the running of Preakness two week …
Barbaro a Sad Story, But Not Breaking News - Associated Content - Associated ContentWhen Barbaro was put down, it was hardly an unexpected event. However, stations broke in to announce the horse's death. Why?
The Bell Tolls for Barbaro Criticism of concern for animals on the grounds that they are not people, and people are suffering, envisages empathy and sympathy as a zero sum - any grief over an animal is less grief for a human being.
Barbaro, a horse, is dead. I'm sorry if you feel sad about this but I'm more concerned about people - you know, my fellow human beings.
After 8 Months, Barbaro is EuthanizedIn eight months of waiting for Barbaro's shattered bones to heal, the horse's owners and his veterinarian said they had not seen the Kentucky Derby-winning colt become so uncomfortable that he would refuse to lie down and rest. Until Sunday night.
A Light Bulb Goes OnIt's great news that Wal-Mart is putting its considerable heft behind one of the easiest ways to reduce energy consumption and the production of global-warming gases: the corkscrew-shaped light bulbs of the future.
There were few bright spots in 2006 for the Philadelphia sports fan. The Flyers were the only team to make the post season and their play-off run was short. Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard had a season to remember, he set a team record and was named NL MVP.
Veterinary hospital is breed apartPennsylvania's New Bolton Center that's tending to Barbaro treats all patients like champions. [free registration req'd.]
Thoroughbred Racing: Our Creation, Our ConcernThis article tells the story of how we created these animals whom we force to race for our pleasure. ---------- Few scenes in sports could ever be more poignant than the image of the racehorse Barbaro holding his hind leg awkwardly in the air as the people on whom his life now …
For Barbaro, it's the paradise before PreaknessMy blood sings just looking at this horse!! And the trainers' attitude is so encouraging....please, oh please, let Barbaro win the Preakness!!! Maybe then other trainers will follow suit...
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