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Article: BARBARO'S LEGACY LEFT TO CONJECTURE.(Sports)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2007
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Byline: Andrew Beyer Washington Post
Unlike movies and books about the sport, real-life horse racing does not often produce stories with happy and satisfying endings. Modern thoroughbreds are so fragile that people who spend their lives around the animals always brace themselves for the worst outcomes.
But even for the most hardened racetrackers, the death of Barbaro on Monday was a painful and depressing loss. The catastrophic injury that the colt suffered in the Preakness, followed by the decision to euthanize him eight months later, constituted a double blow.
The injury robbed the sport of a horse who might have been one of the best of modern times, one who had ...