25 May 2006

Barbaro


by Sabina Louise Pierce





(AP Photo/Garry Jones)



http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news;_ylt=AscrgAZSk4i.Znwxg06dlzoX47kF?slug=reu-racingbarbarodc&prov=reuters&type=lgns

2 comments:

Lora said...

This was heartbreaking to watch!

*jeanne* said...

He didn't make it, Barbero. He was put down 8 months later. "I feel good he had eight months," Dr. Richardson said by phone a week later. That was nearly 20 percent of his life, and most of those days were pleasant. "I would love for the public at large to understand that he had lots of time where he was a good, comfortable horse." But the patient died, so "in my mind, I absolutely failed."
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/barbaro.html#ixzz2WW62riz2