Here is a link to a video, first part you might have seen, but toward the
end there is film of him walking outside the hospital, he looks pretty good!
Barbaro update:
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:21 pm
by OpenMind
What a super looking horse. I'm glad he's getting better now.:-6
Barbaro update:
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:17 am
by cherandbuster
OpenMind wrote: What a super looking horse. I'm glad he's getting better now.:-6
I just love happy endings :-4
Barbaro update:
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:22 am
by valerie
Not out of the woods yet, Cher my friend.
They had him on a stud chain, but I'm still really paranoid about
something happening to him outside, something startles him and he
jumps and that's all she wrote...
Barbaro update:
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:51 pm
by Grumpaz
I have to say that what this horses owner is doing for is has certainly gained my respect. Not to say that I didn't respect him before because he is a great equestrian and I love watching him in the jumping events.
However, I have in the past been associated with racetrack people and know for a fact that there are just too many owners that will have a horse put down for the insurance money rather than go to the exspence of getting the horse well.
My T-bred was one such horse. He was blinded in his right eye bye either a rock or a whip in a race. Thank God he had a kind owner who realized that just because he wouldn't race for him anymore didn't mean he had no potential at all. Bud is 25 years old now and I got him as a coming 4 year old for a measly 150.00. Even got his papers. He has been one of the best riding horses I've ever had and my best buddy. He has always been willing and kind and tried so hard to learn all the things he had to learn as a riding horse.
KENNETT SQUARE, PA — Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has had a significant setback over the last 24 hours. He became acutely more uncomfortable on his left hind foot. The foot cast was removed and some new separation of the medial (inside) portion of his hoof was found. This required some additional debridement (removal of the damaged tissue) last night.
He is being treated much more aggressively at this time for his discomfort. He is continuing to eat well and is otherwise stable.
Barbaro has new cast applied to his left hind foot
January 9, 2007
KENNETT SQUARE, PA-- Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro had a foot cast applied to his left hind foot on January 3, 2007 by Dr. Scott Morrison, an equine podiatry expert from Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. “This cast was applied with the goal of starting to help re-align his coffin bone properly in that foot, said Dr. Dean W. Richardson, Chief of Surgery. “His comfort on that foot has been good since the procedure.
According to Dr. Richardson, radiographs taken on January 8, 2007 “show improved alignment of his coffin bone and continued healing of the fractured right hind pastern region. His condition is stable and a firm decision concerning his discharge from the hospital has not been made.
