“It’s kind of like playing a chess game. Whenever you get confronted with something different, you have to make the right moves. You have to be impressed with the number of right moves Dr. Richardson made. They got close, and if not for a little bad luck they would have made it.” – Dr. Larry Bramlage, a veterinarian at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, who said Barbaro lived as long as he did because of Richardson’s solid decision-making.
Tomorrow is going to be a different day for me.
I didn’t post much until the last few days but tomorrow will be a very different day for me. I have started every day since last May checking in to see how Barbaro was doing. Maybe because I had an injury in April that kept me off my horse for most of the summer. Maybe because Barbaro is the only racehorse I have actually bet on. And won ;). Maybe because he looks a little bit like my beloved ottb Bob. And maybe because Bob spent some time at New Bolton with his previous owner.
I don’t know. I wonder what Alex will be doing and how Tim Wooley’s horses will do. Also what the Jacksons will be up to and how Micheal Matz is. Other than having a few ottb thoroughbreds I haven’t been much into thoroughbred racing until this happened. Erin could we start a new “Team Barbaro” section :sadsmile:.
And now I have to change my sig line 
.
The New York Times:
“Beyond Barbaro’s burgeoning talent, all of his human connections were beguiled by his personality, which blended intelligence with, as Mr. Brette said, an old soul’s temperament.”
I think I will go ahead and keep wearing my blue Believe in Barbaro bracelet. I still believe in him, I still feel he pulled us higher, demonstrated to us our own humanity, showed many the way to be the better people we can be.
And I miss him, so the bracelet is consolation.
wow------ that press conference is soooo hard to watch. How moving. I am just speechless. Dean Richardson just leaves you in awe that a surgeon on such a big case with such power that sees soooooo many horses, is still so moved by this horse’s spirit. simply touching.
Beanie Babies
I don’t know where to find them now, other than through Ebay. Depending on the dealer, a portion of the funds from sale DO go to the Barbaro fund at NBC. The dealer I bought mine through was one who donated…I double checked today.
I think Ty might manufacture some more now, but I don’t know. At any rate, short of Ebay, I think they’re going to be tough to find for a while.
“God is certainly amassing quite the racing string”
This hit me. I’ve heard many different things about what the sound of thunder is. Now I have a new one to tell my son:
The thunder we hear is the sound of the horses we love galloping about the green pastures of Heaven. Barbaro will definitely be among those thundering hoofbeats, and we can be happy for him.
I can only imagine how hard it was for the Jacksons to make this decision. Godspeed to Barbaro and jingles and hugs to them! And all the others who poored their heart and soul into his case!
Beanie Babies
I ordered three on Saturday from Amazon at like $8 a piece. I did get a notification that they shipped so all should be well. Not for profit. One for me, one for my friend Nancy that always gives me Beenie Babies and one for my next door neighbor that actually went to the derby and bet on Barbaro for me.
I wonder if they still have them.
Honestly, before getting too hot under the collar, I can absolutely see why Two Simple asked that question: for further learning. Not everyone wants to do that with their horse, and that’s understandable. But it has happened before.
I write this in tears. We have lost another brave heart.
Like so many before him, his feet and laminitis were the unconquerable.
Would someone republish the address of the Barbaro Fund, at New Bolton? (I n his memory I think many of us would be willing to contribute to more research on laminitis, a syndrome over simplified by many, and only partly understood by few.
…
You know, I asked Two Simple to be a bit tactful and respectful of this thread’s purpose, and as far as I can tell s/he has done so. Now I’d like the rest of you to return the favor. Your behavior is not one bit better.
[QUOTE=Appassionato;2178286]
Honestly, before getting too hot under the collar, I can absolutely see why Two Simple asked that question: for further learning. Not everyone wants to do that with their horse, and that’s understandable. But it has happened before.[/QUOTE]
Sorry Appassionato, but I’m not hot under the collar. However, 1. based on the tenor of Two Simple’s posts in this thread, and 2. based on how totally inappropriate a question it at this time and in this thread, I’m simply not buying it.
Furthermore, I’m a graduate of KC’s school and I’m well aware of where he gets his cadaver legs from. As it happens, they almost all come from rendering plants, not donations. That also happens to be totally irrelevent to a thread dedicated to prayers for Barbaro’s recovery and condolences and sorrow at his loss. And imho as a graduate, it reflects very badly on KC’s school to have a troll using it as a signature.
What a class act, all the way around, horse and human.
The fairy tale was not supposed to end this way. RIP and Godspeed, Barbaro. You will be missed and never forgotten.
Run free Barbaro over the rainbow bridge there are plenty there to greet you…Pine Island and Lost in The Fog…No more pain and freedom in front of you…frolic and run as you were born to do…I am very sad at this moment and cannot express it all…I feel that with the GREAT updates from VB and Alex he was our horse not just the Jacksons…
His legacy will not be how he died but how he lived like a champion…we will live forever in his debt about finding a way to decrease the number of fatal breakdowns on ALL tracks…
And to the Jacksons how wonderful they are for loving this horse this much and knowing when the time was right…
I will miss this thread for it has become part of my daily life…I am in hope that there is more that has been learned and his life is not in vane
A champion does not always win but the try their hearts out…
RIP Big Boy and we will miss you…
Thank everyone involved in his care and all the wonderful people we have heard of… I will take my Barbaro bracelet and put it somewhere safe and think of his courageous fight often I am sure…
Does anyone know the address of Lael Farms?
I’ll respectfull stick my oar in…
Have had my plate full this last year and it continues, but always, as time allowed, I followed the “Barbaro” on COTH through its pangs, its skirmishes, its candles, its angst.
I probably find myself on the side of the owners and immediate connections in their decision and cannot criticize individuals who might have made similiar decisions, earlier. We do not know their circumstances; we are not privy to private records nor conversations.
What unites many this evening is sadness and profound grief; a valiant effort by the horse and his connections to beat the odds.
I want to say I will say a prayer this evening and the days to follow for all for whom this horse meant so much.
Prayer Continues, Always,
June
[QUOTE=Sannois;2178112]
Someone mentioned a Beanie baby Barbaro. I had not heard about that. anyone know where to find one?
[QUOTE]
I read on another bb (TWR) about a week ago that someone had donated 4 Barbaro Beanies to CanterSoIL to help them raise funds for Dinky post-surgery care. The intent was to keep one and auction the other three on ebay one at a time. So, maybe you can kill two birds with one stone! Get the Beanie and help Canter at the same time.
Barbaro Beanie Babies
I saw some before Christmas at two different Cracker Barrel stores in Central VA.
I’m betting that across the Rainbow Bridge there’s a match race going on right now between Barbaro and Lost in the Fog! And the winner gets to challenge Secretariat!!! 
Many thanks again to VB for all the time she and Alex spent keeping us informed about Barbaro!
You can go to www.philly.com for lots of good links to articles and photos from both the Phila. Inquirer and Phila. Daily News. They’ve been great all along in following this story since U of P is in Philly.
I also think it’s nice that the New Bolton website allows you to send condolences to the NBC team. “Send Condolences” link is at the bottom of this page: www.vet.upenn.edu/
