Barabaro Euthanized

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by AOIIalum

Thanks for the link, C. There's also extensive coverage today at www.courier-journal.com about Barbaro's journey.

"To those who loved him so much, certainly grief is the price we all pay for love." Gretchen Jackson, Barbaro's co-owner

Majestic doesn't even cover Barbaro. He really was magnificent to the nth degree.
Check this out, a timeline of short but great life:

Originally Posted by Courier-Journal

Barbaro: a time line

April 29, 2003: Born at Springmint Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., where his dam, La Ville Rouge, was boarded for owner-breeders Roy and Gretchen Jackson.

Oct. 4, 2005: Wins a mile maiden race on turf at Delaware Park by 81/2 lengths.

Nov. 19, 2005: Wins Laurel Futurity on grass at Laurel Park by eight lengths.

Jan. 1, 2006: Wins Grade III Tropical Park Derby at Calder Race Course by 33/4 lengths with Edgar Prado aboard for the first time.

April 1, 2006: Wins Grade I, $1 million Florida Derby by a half-length at Gulfstream Park.

May 6, 2006: Wins the 132nd Kentucky Derby by 61/2 lengths -- the biggest margin in 60 years.

May 20, 2006: Barbaro, the 1-2 favorite for the Preakness Stakes, breaks down about 100 yards into the race. After veterinarians stabilize his badly fractured right hind leg, Barbaro is vanned with police escort 75 miles to the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center.

May 21, 2006: Barbaro undergoes more than four hours of surgery -- six hours under anesthesia -- as a team headed by New Bolton's chief of surgery, Dean Richardson, works to repair fractures to the cannon, sesamoid and long pastern bones and a dislocated ankle.

July 13, 2006: Richardson discloses that Barbaro has developed an acute case of the foot disease laminitis in his left hind leg and calls his prospects for survival "poor."

Nov. 6, 2006: The original fractures have healed to the point where Barbaro's cast on his right hind leg is removed.

Jan. 10, 2007: New Bolton releases a statement saying that Barbaro suffered "a significant setback" overnight, with new separation of the inside portion of the foot discovered after the colt became "acutely more uncomfortable" on it.

Jan. 27, 2007: Barbaro has surgery on his right hind leg, with two steel pins inserted, a risky procedure designed to reduce pressure on that foot, which has developed a deep abscess.

Jan. 29, 2007: Barbaro is euthanized after laminitis in both front feet is added to the complications.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...TS08/701300528

And because no one has put up an actual picture of the great animal, here is a particularly flattering one: