So where on earth did that rumor start then?
As for workouts, I posted the last two here since people seemed interested. Last one was on Friday.
I read it in my vast reading on all things related to Barbaro.
Please do post those workouts - they are interesting!
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Here’s what I have learned regarding Man in Havana and his “injury” which doesn’t exist!:rolleyes:
“The reason why he hasn’t ran is because he is a very immature horse. It has taken him quite a while to learn to run, and he still isn’t all that fast. He seems to like to run 5 furlongs in 1:03. That’s not going to win you anything.”
You can see his timed workouts occasionally on The Daily Racing Forum, and they aren’t very fast at all.[/QUOTE]
Hm, I wonder how long they will keep trying with him before they send him home or on to be a hunter/jumper/dressage prospect? Just ‘cause Barbaro was dynamic doesn’t mean little bro’ MIH will be. 
I was fortunate in that the trainer who had my current OTTB sent him back to the farm telling the owners that he ‘just didn’t like it at the track any more’. I’m still trying to figure out how he actually managed 4 wins. :rolleyes: I bought him as a 7 yr old event horse that had gone from beginner novice to training level in 6 events BUT he had a fabulous rider to have taken that far that fast. Jennifer Johnson was 1st in the '96 Olympic selection trials (3-day eventing) on my boy’s 1/2 brother, Tiger One. I described my boy as being 7 going on 30 whereas my horse, a QH was 12 going on 3 The QH is now 20 and hasn’t changed one bit! :eek:
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Hm, I wonder how long they will keep trying with him before they send him home or on to be a hunter/jumper/dressage prospect? Just ‘cause Barbaro was dynamic doesn’t mean little bro’ MIH will be. :([/QUOTE]
That is putting the cart before the horse - word has always been he was going to be one you have to go slow with, and expectation was as an older horse he should do rather well! I doubt you see him being rehomed as any sort of prospect, if he does not shine particularly brightly in the US I am sure he will be bought by South America as a Stallion!
Thanks, Alex~
Update 1559: Excellent article from Sandra McKee, Baltimore Sun: Surgeon works on life after Barbaro, which includes the following excerpts:
“I wasn’t going to go,” said Deborah Cronin, an equine and small animal vet from Califon, N.J. “There are a lot of feelings on my part about Barbaro, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to relive them. But my friends talked me into it, and I’m glad they did. It was a very heartfelt and warm speech. He spoke very well about the events leading up to the end. … He cleared up a lot concerning why the end came so fast.”
and
“Things aren’t pre-Barbaro normal,” he said. "There still are follow-up stories, and I’ve had at least 1,000 letters since he died. For a long time, they were coming at a rate of about 100 a day, every day, and those are the ones just addressed to me.
“If they’re addressed to me, I read them. It’s good. It’s bad. Some are straightforward, but some are so eloquent and heartfelt, they reopen wounds.”
Update 1558: The Barbaro Stakes, to be run at Delaware Park in July, will be a grade 3 event on the dirt, not Turf as was noted ealier.
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Hm, I wonder how long they will keep trying with him before they send him home or on to be a hunter/jumper/dressage prospect? Just ‘cause Barbaro was dynamic doesn’t mean little bro’ MIH will be. :(/quote]
He is by Quiet American, so maybe he’s living up to his dad’s name? :lol:
Just wait for the two full brothers to come along…
Broadcasting & Cable March 5, 2007 “HBO Sports Increases Its Reach”
HBO Sports hopes to parlay a soon-to-be-announced documentary on ill-fated champion horse Barbaro …
The network will soon announce that it is in production on a Barbaro documentary, chronicling the courageous Kentucky Derby winner whose horrific injuries sustained in last May’s Preakness Stakes race led ultimately to his being put down in January.
Barbaro’s battle to survive became front-page news, garnering so much attention that it created a backlash, as people wondered why the country grew obsessed with a horse.
“We are going to try to explain why Barbaro became so significant and important to the American public. The entire country rallied around this horse,” says HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg of the project, slated to debut the first week of June.
That would put it in around the same time as the Belmont and ABC/ESPN’s airing of the movie on Ruffian
Yeah there’s a lovely cover shot of me and “Banana” (What I called MIH)
I have a print of that photo and it looks much better a bit larger. But then I am biased as hell.
No injuries that I am aware of.
He could indeed be a jumper from what I have felt, but I am not gonna be the one to suggest it to the Jacksons. I don’t feel like dying that fast!!! People already say I talk too much, so I am gonna sit quietly back on my opinions of what the Banana could do. 
But man is his gallop across the fields to die for!! :eek:
~Emily
PS: VB you have a PM. Thanks!
Cover of what? Can we see? Please?
Cover of what? Can we see? Please?
Cover of what? Can we see? Please?
Thanks Alex~
Update 1561: A little earlier I neglected to note the passing of Candy Stripes, who was the sire of last year’s horse of the year Invasor: Candy Stripes dies of colic at age 25.
It appears there are troubles at the TRF: Questions Arise at Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation as Board Members Leave.
Today it looks like another very cold morning, its likely training will be in the shedrow for at least part of the morning.
The recent Horse of Deleware Valley.
The Horse of the Delaware Valley (you need to be a subscriber) includes a cover story: “The Torch is Passed”. Its cover includes a picture of Man in Havana (and Emily).
Thanks Alex~
Update 1560: A quick update on Kentucky Derby winner Real Quiet who is currently at New Bolton Center: Real Quiet Mending, excerpt:
“He’s doing well, and looks good and bright-eyed,” said syndicate manager Mike Jester March 5. “Dr. (Dean) Richardson is treating his right hind foot with antibiotics to guard against infection. He might be going home soon.”
Thanks for all these posts…it’s great to read about B’s kin and others!
Thanks Alex~
Update 1562: A brutally cold morning this morning. As I was arriving at the barn first thing the radio informed me it was 1 degree with the wind chill! Thankfully I ride for smart trainers and we shedrowed everything this morning. I do know of others who went out there, and all I can say it, glad it was not me (Apparently the Tapeta track was good though). Hawty Creek was my first to shedrow, followed by two for Tim, Grandma and Quick Quest. I then rode Bandit (for Lynda) and three for Bobby, including Flash. The shedrow was quite calm and we managed to organize our sets well so we could get a good jog in with each horse. Before my last set Mrs. Jackson called for a quick catch up. We had not talked for a while so it was fun to reconnect. Since shedrowing makes the morning a little faster I had a little more time to curry Hawty Creek, and her coat was literally falling off! I also managed to clean my tack, I need to try to do that more than once a week. Anyway, all in all a decent morning given the ridiculousness of this weather. Apparently it will be cold and snowy tomorrow!
thanks for all the continued updates VB, I really appreciate them.
I love reading all these continued updates. I miss Bobby and his updates, of course, but it’s still nice to feel a little like a member of the Fair Hill family.
Emily, nice photo You lucky girl!!
Thanks Alex~
Update 1566: Hard Spun is now pointing to the Lane’s End at Turfway Park rather than the Rebel at Oaklawn where he has been stabled for the past month or so: Hard Spun to run in Lane’s End, not Rebel. Larry Jones, Hard Spun’s trainer, also gallops Hard Spun, here is an excerpt:
“We’re not saying he couldn’t win the Rebel,” Jones said. “He’s a very classy horse. He’s a very talented horse. But he’s telling me every day when I gallop him… he’s just not comfortable when he’s traveling over this surface. All the others he does effortlessly.”
Very encouraging news concerning the two Texas slaughter houses: Federal Court of Appeals Affirms Ruling Declaring Horse Slaughter Illegal in Texas
