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Article: BARBARO'S GLORY AN UPLIFTING TALE.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2007
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Byline: KEVIN MODESTI
HORSE RACING
When you remember Barbaro, do you think first of the glory or the gore?
Horse-racing promoters are going counterintuitive and betting on the glory.
Instead of hiding from Barbaro's bittersweet memory, racetracks and TV networks seem to be reveling in the colt's story in the run-up to Saturday's 133rd Kentucky Derby, which will mark a year since the 6 1/2-length victory that introduced him to the general public.
But why would they want to remind people of a Derby winner who broke down grotesquely in the Preakness two weeks later and died in January? Weren't his injury and death supposed to ...