Article: Fans of Barbaro gather to celebrate his birthday.

Byline: Mike Jensen

Apr. 30--STANTON, Del. -- Barbaro's groom showed up at Delaware Park yesterday and there were cheers -- and nobody even had to be told that this man had been Barbaro's groom. Just the name, Eduardo Hernandez, sufficed.

A couple of minutes later, Barbaro's owners, Roy and Gretchen Jackson, arrived and before any announcement was made, everyone in a tent near the paddock immediately stood up.

"Overwhelming, a bit," Roy Jackson said later about the outpouring of affection.

"You wish you had six hands," Gretchen Jackson said of the requests for autographs.

Yesterday, a group that had basically emerged from an Internet site filled that ...

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