BYE BYE Barbaro

Such a shame but it was always a possibility. I wouldn't fancy that bill!

RIP Barbaro
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yes - I agree - terribly sad

maybe one day the TB breeders rules will change to permit chilled and frozen semen to be taken in exceptional cases like this.

what a tragedy
 
aw thats very said. heres hoping that it all wasn't in vain and they learnt from all the treatments they did try. RIP barbaro
 
thank heavens........poor poor horse .....for him to go through all that extra pain and for what ????????? to make the owners feel better
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RIP Barbaro you have gone to a better place.......
 
noooooooo! i seem to feel like i know him so well from all of your post GTs and from reading in news etc. Well he's gone to a better place, and what a jolly good fight he put up, a horse any owner would be proud of and good on them for doing what they could. good on you Barbaro; you are a true hero and legend!
 
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RIP Barbaro. What a shame. I saw him on the news this morning but I had the volume down. I had not realised that is what they were reporting
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I am sure that all the way through he had the utmost love and the very best of care.
 
ok - if you follow 'your opinion' thru to it's logical conclusion then all hospices should be shut and when humans are suffering from terminal illnesses they should all be put down 'to end their suffering' ???

for any animal with a serious illness the treatment regime is VERY dependent on the temprement of the animal

it is a tribute to Barbaro that he had the temprement to bravely withstand treatment given to him to try to get him to survive.

Many years ago Mill Reef was only saved because he had such a good temp. that he withstood the treatment regime for his broken leg.

One saying - where there is life there is hope.

Perhaps you have been lucky enough never to have had to deal with someone terminally ill screaming for their next dose of morphine or to deal with the final decision on when to end a precious animals life.

Life is precious. Death is very final.
 
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Of course you're entitled to your opinion but I think there is a time and place for everything...

I can't help feeling terribly sad that he has gone through so much - it's heartbreaking.
However, I think a lot of horse owners in the same position would have tried their very best to save their horse, and as time went on it must have become more difficult to know if it was time to call it a day.
As soon as they made the decision to try and save him it was a case of 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't'.

If anything good can come out of this, it will hopefully be the great advances made in veterinary medicine, but of course, that's no comfort to poor Barbaro.
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RIP
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Here's the report from The Thoroughbred Times:

<font color="blue"> Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro euthanized



BARBARO
Patricia McQueen photo
By Mike Curry and Pete Denk

Barbaro, winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) whose battle to overcome injuries suffered in the Preakness Stakes (G1) attracted worldwide attention and a legion of fans, was euthanized on Monday morning at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center.

Gretchen Jackson, who owned and bred the Dynaformer colt along with her husband, Roy, said that Barbaro’s front feet were beginning to become affected by the limited ability of both his laminitic left hind foot and his fused right limb that was shattered in the Preakness Stakes to bear weight.

The decision was made early Monday after consulting with Dean Richardson, D.V.M., chief surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school.

“There was not a foot that was not affected,” Gretchen Jackson said. “He just would not lie down. He had not layed down for two days now. That can’t be good for him. He’s got to get the weight off of his feet. They were bringing him in and out of the sling, but his front feet were showing signs of laminitic changes and we just thought rather than put him through any more else. He had been good up to the beginning of this month, and then everything went.”

Barbaro, who became the sixth undefeated Derby winner in history when he won the 2006 Derby by 6 1/2 lengths, demonstrated considerable discomfort on his right hind foot over the weekend and underwent surgery to insert two pins in his right hind cannon bone in an effort to eliminate all weight bearing from the right foot on Saturday. The procedure was described as a last ditch effort to keep Barbaro comfortable enough to continue his recovery.

“Dean said, ‘The good stuff takes a long time, and the bad goes fast,’ “ Gretchen Jackson said. “That seems like that’s what it was, it went really fast. We all are really, really confident that he didn’t suffer. We know that he was pain free and we just didn’t ever want to see him…it’s an issue of pain and quality of life. If it’s not going to happen, it’s just not going to happen. We just owed it to him to give him the best.”
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Think with Mill Reef his fetlock was described as feeling like a 'bag of marbles' after his injury.

Temperament played a huge role in his recovery,and there were a distinct lack of complications too. He's proved to be a very influential sire,one of the best in modern times. If they hadn't tried to save him we'd have been denied a great stallion, and countless amazing racehorses.
 
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