Article: For owners, ties run deep: with Roy and Gretchen Jackson, owners of Barbaro, the business of breeding horses has real resonance.

Byline: Mike Jensen

May 23--In 2001, when a pedigree specialist took a look at mares owned by Roy and Gretchen Jackson, he recommended selling several that he did not rate highly.

"It became obvious: These were mares who meant something to them," their pedigree consultant, Headley Bell, said last week. "They didn't want to get rid of them, and they didn't."

The Jacksons primarily breed horses to race, but their connections have always gone deeper than the races themselves.

Although Barbaro, his life in peril, made it through Sunday's complicated surgery on his right hind leg, where a steel plate and 23 screws were inserted around his ...

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