I know there are a lot of other serious news and issues that are happening in the world as we speak, but I hadn't seen it mentioned here today. If it has, I'll gladly delete.
Barbaro, the feisty, lovely thoroughbred who won the Kentucky Derby, but broke down in the Preakness, has lost his battle and was euthanized this morning.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Kentucky Derby-winning racehorse Barbaro was put to death on Monday after failing to recover from a shattered hind leg suffered in the Preakness Stakes last May, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.
This just made me so sad. I thought that after this much time he was pretty well on the way to mending. But they are, for all their strength and beauty, fragile animals. What a horse. And what a shame.
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Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, has called a news conference for later on Monday, a spokeswoman for the veterinarian school said.
Richardson had said on Sunday that Barbaro suffered a significant setback in his long recovery.
The horse developed a deep abscess in his foot last week and underwent surgery on Saturday at the New Bolton Center, Richardson said in a statement. But his front legs began to show signs of stress.
"He started to have changes in the front feet," the colt's owner, Roy Jackson, told the Daily News. "Now, we were dealing with all four feet. Dean's advice was and we were all concurrent on everything that we just don't want the horse to suffer."
There's more at the Philadelphia Daily News
Sniff. RIP buddy.