Barbaro

[txrvkats]

God speed, Barbaro. We will miss your fine spirit & courage. You taught us so much & were truly an inspiration.

[horsetalk]

I am so sorry to hear about Barbaro. He was a fighter. He had been through so much, putting him through any more pain would have been cruel, he is in a much better place pain free

[durangosmom]

Wow - what a shock to hear this!

Now you can run as fast as you want over green pastures Barbaro - thanks for touching all of our hearts!

[h2opony]

I cried and cried when i heard the news.. i felt like I had known this magnificent equine personally after scowering over news and updates since that awful day. I am at ease though knowing that he now is in a better place, with perfect legs, and running free with the other greats...

I found this article and I thought it was AMAZING..

Wall: Barbaro enriched us all
By Maryjean Wall
HERALD-LEADER RACING WRITER
‘Bye, Barbaro.

If only we’d had more time with you. You were beautiful. You were brave. You were the best.

You enriched us all, in the nanosecond that you flashed across our universe.

You caught the magic. You shared that spell with us.

Like all superior athletes, you lifted us above the world of the mundane into the universe of the gifted.

We soared with you.

You gave us something else to think about besides our ordinary lives.

You caught our attention, Barbaro. For all that’s wrong with sports, you stood and said with the authority that comes to a Kentucky Derby winner, “enough” to what we do to win at any cost.

Never did gossip or suspicion mar the course of your racing career. No steroids. No spit balls. No stealing signs.

That may have been why you were sent here: to remind us all that winning without taint of suspicion is what sports should be about.

Oh, we’ll forget your lesson soon enough. We’re flawed in ways that you were not. But your moral light at least flickered briefly in our consciousness. Thanks for that, Barbaro.

And thanks, too, for allowing us at least to dream that we might see a Triple Crown won on your watch.

Maybe we all went off the deep end on this one, Barbaro. But you have to understand, we all long for something that we thought we glimpsed in you.

You demonstrated that indefinable quality when winning the Kentucky Derby. Words couldn’t fully describe this moment. But our hearts got the message. We left Churchill Downs hopeful.

That’s why Preakness day dawned bigger for us than it may have seemed even to you, Barbaro. For you, perhaps, another horse race. For us, the next stop on the way to a Triple Crown. The day began on this note.

We wanted in Maryland what we got from you in Kentucky. You gave us this and much, much, more. But it took us days, weeks, months to fully realize your gift. When you left Pimlico in the ambulance, we saw only a stricken horse.

As we have said, Barbaro, this started out about where you were taking us. We had hoped to go to the Triple Crown. You took us someplace else. Unfortunately, you could not know this.

Our immediate response you saw, of course, in the flowers, the cute gifts, the phone calls and the e-mails sent to you over eight months in the hospital.

What you did not realize, Barbaro, was that we may have received much more back from you than we would have if you’d won the Triple Crown.

Watching a great beast like yourself so compromised, then fighting so hard to stay alive so long, forced us to face something inside ourselves. You were hopeful; we were, too. You trusted; we did, too.

Could this have turned out differently? We would be unwise to spoil our own time on this earth trying to answer this question.

Rather, we must treasure those moments of beauty you brought into our lives. The same for those lessons you taught us which were, we really must believe, your purpose in being here.

We know you accepted your time gratefully, Barbaro. You also faced the end with grace. We should all be so fortunate to learn from your time here among us.

‘Bye, Barbaro. God-speed. And farewell, with thanks from all of us

[jane]

This was posted on a non horse board that I am on and some people think the family tried to keep him alive for money. That just makes me mad, I told them if they wanted money they would have put him down on the spot for his life insurance. If he were to make it and able to breed he would never have paid for his medical bills.

Non horse people don't have a clue. Tears for Barbaro, I was really pulling for you, you were a winner.

[twnpnds]

RIP Barbaro. You will live in many hearts forever. Run like the wind friend. Here's a news article from Yahoo.
sports.yahoo.com/rah/news?slug=ap-barbarodeath&prov=ap&type=lgns

[bndranch]

I heard today that the Kentucky horse park where they run the Kentucky Derby wants to have Barbaro laid to rest there with 4 other Derby winners. Wouldn't that be just a fitting end for this awesome horse?!

[taydajumper93]

I was SO upset!! We lost a TRUE CHAMP!!

[bndranch]

I found this link, I was literally in tears. He had the fastest derby time since 73 and Sectratariat (and I am sure that is spelled wrong).
everyrider.typepad.com/everyrider/2007/01/barbaro_rest_in.html
<forgot to let you all know that there is a slide show made someone with music, this is what I got really choked up over!>

[hannah c]

I was so sad when I heard the news. And I still get a little choked up when I think about him.

It's amazing how much of an impact he made on everyone. It was just so tragic, because after the Derby, so many people were rooting for him... Yesterday I went back and watched all his races...wow, the way he just blew by the other horses!

Here's an article that I liked, by the author Jane Smiley:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901004_pf.html

[txrvkats]

Thhe owners & Dr are on Larry King Live right now. It is hard to watch.