thoroughbred horse racing
grrlscientist | January 29, 2008tags: Barbaro, horse racing, thoroughbreds, horses, leg injuries, churchill downs
Goodbye Barbaro, thanks for the memories.
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Roy and Gretchen Jackson, the owners of the gallant racehorse, Barbaro, who was euthanized one year ago today, have decided to inter his cremains at Churchill Downs in Kentucky, where he won the Kentucky Derby in May 2006.
Barbaro, who shattered his right hind leg during the running of the Preakness Stakes in late May 2006, battled eight months for his life in a Pennsylvania veterinary hospital. The bay colored colt was eventually euthanized after…