YAY! Go BOBBY!!! That is such great news!
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Thanks to VB and everyone who keeps us updated! I’ve been too busy to post but check this thread every day :winkgrin: :winkgrin: !
Absolutely wonderful news!
Hooray!!! :D:D:D This is great news. VB, many thanks for keeping us up-to-date.
Heard this on Paul Harvey also. Wonderful, wonderful news!
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WAHOO! What great news!!!
Update 999: I just spoke to Peter, who had heard from Michael, who visited Barbaro this afternoon. All remains well.
Michael’s take on the eclipse awards: Matz: Bernardini still deserves title. An excerpt:
“I’m obviously prejudiced, but I think it would probably be a little hard for them to give Barbaro champion 3-year-old and not Bernardini,” Matz said. “It’d be nice if they could be joint 3-year-old champions, but I don’t know if that could be possible and I don’t think you could give Bernardini nothing for campaigning all year. Bernardini campaigned all year. He was second to Invasor; it wasn’t like he ran a bad race.”
Update 998: Barbaro radiographs taken on November 7 (cast removal) are now online: Barbaro Photo Album
Thank you Alex.
Thanks VB for keeping us all updated! I can tell you for sure, that every once in a while the topic of Barbaro comes up with non-horse people, and they ask “I wonder what ever happened to him?” And I can rattle off “Well, he is going to have his cast off this Sunday!” thanks to your posts. He did capture the nation, and I am so glad he is doing so well!
wow! It barely looks like the same leg! If you look close enough you can see where the calcification is, etc, but what a wonderful job they did…Bobby included in the “they” part.
I echo the thanks, VB. If it weren’t for your tireless efforts here, I’d be lost.
Sidenote: I’m lighting a bunch of candles, but we’re below 1000 again. Can we get a bunch of people to start lighting with me??
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wow! It barely looks like the same leg! If you look close enough you can see where the calcification is, etc, but what a wonderful job they did…Bobby included in the “they” part.
I echo the thanks, VB. If it weren’t for your tireless efforts here, I’d be lost.
Sidenote: I’m lighting a bunch of candles, but we’re below 1000 again. Can we get a bunch of people to start lighting with me??[/QUOTE]
Your request for candles must have worked. I was just there at 7:05 AM and the total was 1137!
Ditto on the thanks to VB! You are fantastic! If you ever are foolish enough to come to the Rochester NY area, you’ve got a place to stay and meals to boot!
Wednesday Morning~
Update 1000: A great NPR interview with Dr. Richardson: Barbaro’s Cast Removed; Recovery Continues.
I am sure the Barbaro update this morning will be delayed. Its raining pretty hard outside so I am anticipating a morning of shedrowing. If that is the case, I will stop by Michael Matz’s barn once they are done to get the update.
Thanks, Alex.
Thanks so much VB for all the updates. When I heard Michael say in an interview at the BC that the cast might come off this week, it was totally joyful in our house! What super wonderful news.
Are there still possible plans on taking him home for the winter?
Yes, he is on track to go to the Jacksons’ for the winter. As they are extremely close to New Bolton, the particulars are being worked out.
Thanks Alex.
Update 1001: It is a miserably wet day (although warm). So training has been pretty much limited to the shedrow, I will venture over to Michael Matz’s barn later this morning for the update.
VB, I’m pretty ignorant about race training. What is shedrowing? Thanks, as always, for your reports.
A shedrow is the space that the trainer occupies with his horses in the barn, this includes the area in front of the horses’ stalls. The shedrow also refers to the entire circuit within the barn that passes in front of the horses’ stalls. It is used as a place to cool the horses out after they have exercised. In inclement weather horses may be exercised in the shedrow (i.e. stay inside rather than go outside). Shedrowing a horse means it is being exercised in the shedrow.
VB, or somebody, please talk to me about the fact that Bobby’s “ankle” seems to be bent inward. Was that deliberate? A result of not quiiiiiite healing where they wanted it? What? And, given that it IS bent inward a little, do we have any idea what that means for his future soundness.
Going home to Lael stables for the winter? How wonderful! Merry Christmas to all!
Update 1002: Another comfortable night last night for Barbaro (tuesday night). I just stopped by Michael Matz’s barn and Michael gave me the update.
update 10:20 am, wet wednesday november 8
Thanks, Alex.
This is such wonderful news. It does the heart good
oh thank you VB - I am listening right now to the interview. He is describing the interpretive dance done for Barbaro!
So delightful. Thank you again!
