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Article: Emotional rescue: Courage shown by Barbaro and handlers lives on one year later.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2007
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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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Article: Barbaro's best trait: he wins all of his races.(racehorse Barbaro)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);
May 7, 2006 ;
700+ words
......Michael Matz said Sunday, standing behind Barn 42 as Barbaro posed for the traditional morning-after photos after...all. That is precisely what happened on Saturday when Barbaro, owned by Roy and Gretchen Jackson of West Grove, Chester...that, by the way he demolished the best of the rest, Barbaro became ...
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