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Preakness

Mrs.Greg

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Any bets? Have to go with Brother Derek again,cause owners a nieghbor....Do like Barbaro though,{pssst,kinda hope he wins :p}
 

EastTexasGal

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Very Sad Race....they are now saying it was defenitely a fracture on BARBARO....horse with so much HOPE and such a future has now come to an end. Boy that could have been a great race between the winner and Barbaro. Anyway, Congrats to the winner....and prayers go out to the great horse Barbaro!!

Easty
 
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Anonymous

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Glad I didn't make it back to watch the race now- I hate to see them horses break down trying so hard :(
 

Mrs.Greg

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It was sooo sad, the Jockey was excellent and pulled him back as soon as he felt it. They were taking him to animal hospital :cry:
 

Faster horses

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Oh, that just makes me ill.

It will be interesting to hear why they think
it happened.

Just think how the trainer must feel. Poor guy.

Where was the leg broken? We were branding so I didn't get
to watch and now I guess I am glad. He is a really special horse.

Depending on where it is, the vets can do more for broken legs
than previously. I hope and pray this one can be fixed.

Terrible news!
 

Mrs.Greg

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Ok I think I have this right...Right leg,2 fractures,one below knee one above,they thought after the Xray...don't quote me on that but thats what I think was said,your right he is a special horse,the Jockey was pretty upset!
 

EastTexasGal

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From what they are saying, it will take multiple surgeries...it was the back ankle area. They said they will not know more till after they get better X-Rays. I suspect that they will save him where they can stand him....But his racing career is defenitely over. VERY SAD!!

Easty
 

EastTexasGal

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Dr. Larry Bramlage, the attending veterinarian for the race, said Barbaro suffered a fracture above and below the ankle.

"It's a serious fracture. This will require pretty major surgery. ... Keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer," he said.

Trainer Michael Matz bolted from his seat and ran onto the track where he embraced Prado. The jockey went over to owner Gretchen Jackson and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

She put an arm on his shoulder and said, "You did a great job."

Fans were crying in the grandstand as the unbeaten 3-year-old was loaded into an equine ambulance and taken away, his injured leg in an inflatable cast.

"You never expect it," Jackson said as she walked back to the barn.

Prado pulled Barbaro to a stop just past the finish line and jumped off.

The devastating development took all the excitement from a Pimlico crowd expecting a victory by Barbaro that would have set the stage for a Triple Crown attempt in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks.

All the Triple talk is over now.

The Preakness went on, though, with Bernardini taking control from pace-setter Like Now and pulling away for 5 1/4-length victory over Sweetnorthernsaint.

Hemingway's Key was third, followed by Brother Derek, Greeley's Legacy, Platinum Couple and Like Now.

Ridden by Javier Castellano, Bernardini became the first Preakness winner to have not run in the Derby since Red Bullet in 2000.

Lightly raced, Bernardini was taking a major step up in class in just his fourth career start. The well-bred son of A.P. Indy came into $1 million Preakness off an impressive win in the Withers Stakes at Aqueduct on April 29.

The colt has now won three straight after running fourth in his debut, and earned $650,000 for Darley Stable, operated by Dubai's Sheik Mohammed.

Winning time for the 1 3-16 miles was 1:54.65, off the stakes record of 1:53.40.

Bernardini paid $27.80, $9.40 and $5.80. Sweetnorthernsaint, who finished seventh in the Derby, returned $7.80 and $5. Hemingway's Key paid $8.
 

Northern Rancher

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No horse has more raw heart than a thoroughbred-I've seen some run the track hurt pretty bad pulling chuckwagons.I helped Doc Ismay plate a broken leg down at Sturgis one time it took us three hours or so but was pretty darn interesting.
 

Faster horses

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At the Chuckwagon races at the Casper, Wyoming rodeo when I was a kid, I saw a horse get out of the traces while the race was on when he must have had a heart attack. The other horses couldn't be stopped and they drug that horse half way around the track and right in front of the grandstand. I never forgot that sight. It was awful.
 

EastTexasGal

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I have to say the memory I have is of "Ruffian" the wonder filly that broke her leg and almost killed the jockey when she went down. Here is her story...but this was the memory I have , I had followed her races and it she was just amazing the same as Barbaro.

Ruffian was bred by Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Janney for their Locust Hill Farm, and born in 1972 at Claiborne Farms in Kentucky. She frolicked as a filly and weanling there, and was shipped to Belmont Park in New York for schooling under the care of trainer Frank Whiteley Jr. Ruffian was a tall, very dark bay filly, deep bodied but long legged and with a long body and neck. There was no mistaking her for anything but a racehorse. She broke the track record in her first race, winning by 13 lengths. She won every race she was entered in her 2 year old season, but fractured a bone late in the year and was retired to recouperate for a while. She was crowned 2 year old filly of the year.


She'd done it all. She held the Filly Triple Crown, had been Filly 2 year old of the Year, and would no doubt win that title as a 3 year old even if she never raced again. So, it was decided to put her to one more test -- there would be a match race between Foolish Pleasure, that year's Kentucky Derby winner, and Ruffian. Ruffian had never raced against colts before, but she certainly seemed to up to it. Foolish Pleasure's trainer gave him a few extra sessions in breaking from the gate fast, since Ruffian seemed to win all her races by leading from the start.

On July 7, 1975, more than 31,000 people watched Foolish Pleasure leap from the gate with his head in front, the first time a horse had headed Ruffian. Ruffian quickly sprinted up from the inside and stuck her head in front. Ruffian seemed to have trouble, bouncing off Foolish Pleasure for several lengths, but she increased her margin to about a half length in front as the pair approached the clubhouse turn. The crowd was cheering loudly as the race appeared to be turning into the great race they'd hoped for, two magnificent race horses head and head the whole way. But as the two horses approached the mile marker, there was a sound which both jockeys described later as being "like the breaking of a board", and the great match race was over. Ruffian had broken a leg.

Jacinto Vasquez, Ruffian's jockey, had a terrible time pulling her up; she was fighting to continue the race despite her shattered leg. Heroic efforts were made to save Ruffian. A pneumatic cast was applied before she was loaded onto the ambulance and a new one was applied in the barn area. A team of four veterinarians and an orthopaedic surgeon worked for 12 hours to save her leg. During the operation, Ruffian stopped breathing two times and had to be revived. Finally the surgery was done. However, the worst was yet to come. The anesthesia wore off and the filly awoke, disoriented and confused, as is often the case with horses and anesthesia. She thrashed about wildly despite the attempts of several attendants to hold her down. In her struggles, she fractured the new cast and the opposite leg, and caused even greater damage to the original break. Knowing that she could not live through further surgery, the veterinarians had to put her to sleep to end her suffering.

Ruffian is buried near the flagpole at Belmont Park, with her nose pointed towards the finish line. The flags at Belmont flew at half-mast, that day, July 7, 1975.

Just wanted to share a powerful story that sometimes we forget how great "Ruffian" was.


Easty
 

Kato

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I saw the race, and you could see right away where it was broken. From the ankle down, the hoof was swinging side to side very obviously. :cry: It just gave me a sick feeling in my stomach, and later when they reran the tape, I had to change the channel.

I give the jockey full credit for stopping him so fast. Perhaps his fast reaction time will save the borse's life. It is true though, that the surgery is only part of the danger. When horses come out of anesthetic, it can be violent. It's the most dangerous time of the procedure.

We can only hope for the best.
 

Faster horses

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Thanks Easty.

I saw that race on tv when it happened.

Those horses are so bred to run and I think their adrenalin is flowing
so much that they don't realize how bad they are hurt. It was sickening
to see how long it took to get her stopped.

Great horses with big hearts in a grueling profession.
 
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