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Article: Barbaro is our newest sports hero

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July 20, 2006
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Assistant trainer Peter Brette exercises Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro in May. Barbaro has developed a severe case of laminitis, a potentially fatal disease caused by uneven weight distribution in the limbs.

Here's the argument. We love Barbaro, the doomed horse, because he is everything we wish our human athletes were: silent, brave and brief. He came, he conquered, he collapsed. The song almost writes itself. How much easier it is to let the heart hug the innocent, uncomplicated by greed, by graft or by ego, than it is to suffer the imperfections of free choice. No steroids in this body, or if so, not his fault. No spite, no malice, no sass, no head butts, no misquotes in Barbaro's ...

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