BYE BYE Barbaro

Let's keep our fingers crossed his brother who will be racing next year will be able to finish off the family business and triple crown - it is too early to know what he is like, but reports from the farm is he is as cocky as Barbaro was when he was that age.
 
get real ........it was a horse with a broken leg put through more pain ........and yes im a great fan of euthanasia for humans .......its called freedom of choice
 
See previously I would get defensive about people saying he should have been put down earlier - however after last week hearing the stories about him from the people who loved him before he became famous, it really does not bother me a bit! All I can say if I was a sick horse, I hope the Jacksons owned me!
 
well said. The price of love is to suffer along with the one that is actually hurting, feel their pain with them, do the best you can to mend that pain or mitigate it, mourn their passing and then remember them in better times.
 
Heard about it earlier form an American friend.RIP Barbaro.

Should he have been PTS sooner? We will never be able to answer that one, but TBH if he was mine,I would have done the same as his owners and given him every chance.
 
Just read about him on Forbes. Said he was in significant pain from an abcess in his right hind and post surgery on Saturday to insert some pins into his healed bones to enable the leg and not his foot to take more weight.

Poor boy. I know I've often questioned why he was kept alive after his injury given that he'd broken his canon, sesamoid and pastern bones in several places. However, given the monumental battle he'd endured with such dignity to recover for a life out at pasture, it saddens me that it's all come to an end. So sad to think it's not even the initial injuries that many thought he'd never be able to get over, that has claimed his life.

A truly heroic horse and his memory will live on for eternity. No one will forget the 8 month battle to save possibly the greatest triple crown contender that ever ran!
 
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such a shame
 
I don't think anyone can blame his owners for trying to save the horse they loved. I think its very sad that its come to this, but for the best really.
 
It is your opinion but perhaps you should have kept it to yourself in this case you didn't come across as very tactful or sympathetic being as someone is grieving.
 
So very tragic and sad. Rest in Peace Barbaro, you put up a brave fight but can now spread your wings and soar in the big paddock above
 
Very sad, but I actually feel relieved that the right thing was done for this horse. It broke my heart more to see him so disabled and undignified.
As heroic and loving as the owners were I feel that the veterinary team put this horse through too much and more as a publicity stunt than in the best interests of the animal.

But this is just my humble opinion - before I get tied to a stake and burnt
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It broke my heart more to see him so disabled and undignified.


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I agree. Some of the pictures I saw of him all trussed up and with blindfolds on and tubes coming out of everywhere, were awful in my opinion.
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Rest his soul - you are out of pain forever now Barbaro.
 
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I saw of him all trussed up and with blindfolds on and tubes coming out of everywhere, were awful in my opinion.
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The picture you are refering to was his pool recovery - that is pretty standard.
 
I do love Edgar Prado's quote - Visiting Barbaro for the first time since the accident, says, "If tears could heal Barbaro, he would be healed by now."
 
I'm glad he was given the chance to get better. I'm not sure how many other racehorses are. If I had a hard working horse like him, I would have felt pretty bad not giving him a chance of seeing retirement.
 
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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.......

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You are very mistaken if you think owners make decisions like this based on what will make them feel better. I assume you have never faced a similar decision to this, if you ever do, I am sure you will come to realise how ridiculous your flippant comment comes across, let alone how simplistic it assumes the decision to be.


RIP Barbaro.
Gretchen Jackson rightly said "Certainly, grief is the price we all pay for love"
 
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