EDITORIAL ODDS TOO GREAT.BARBARO Barbaro (April 29 2003 – January 29 2007) was an American thoroughbred that decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby but shattered his leg two weeks later, in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, ending his racing career and eventually leading to his death. faced long odds in the Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. , but won in stunning fashion. The odds were longer still that he would survive a devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. broken leg last spring. On Monday Monday: see week. , that fight ended, but the story of Barbaro will surely go on. The champion was put down after his owners spent months trying to help him heal. They had to make the toughest decision an animal's owner can make. The story of Barbaro moved the nation. People from all over the country sent cards, flowers, donations, carrots and their prayers. And while Barbaro's tale is no Seabiscuit story, in which a horse overcame all odds to become a champion, it is no less poignant -- or meaningful. |
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