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Article: Kentucky Derby Winner Barbaro Loses Long Struggle After Injury
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 30, 2007
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From the beginning, the one thing Gretchen and Roy Jackson said
they would not tolerate was to see Barbaro in pain. On Monday
morning, after their gravely injured Kentucky Derby winner would not
lie down and sleep for two straight nights, the colt's owners met
with Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at the University of
Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, and agreed the time had come to
put the beloved horse down.
At 10:30 a.m., with the Jacksons and a resident of the hospital
present, Richardson administered a heavy dose of tranquilizer into
Barbaro's veins as well as an intravenous overdose of an anesthetic,