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Emotional rescue: Courage shown by Barbaro and handlers lives on one year later.
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Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
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May 20, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 The Baltimore Sun. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Ken Murray
May 20--The images will return today like snapshots from a funeral: Barbaro breaking through the gate prematurely. Barbaro breaking down in the first furlong. Crestfallen jockey Edgar Prado in tears. Barbaro being hauled away from Pimlico Race Course in an ambulance as night closed in.
One more time, the nation's racing fans -- along with many who are not -- will mourn the loss of a champion. One more time, they will remember the moment, the ordeal and the bitter end.
"What I loved was seeing Michael Matz run over and give the jockey a hug," Aynsley Smith, a sport psychologist for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said of the moment. "That ...
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