3.5 year old Barbaro was euthanized today. What a gallant struggle.

Barbaro won four of his five career starts and over $1m in prize money.
He first caught the public imagination by winning the Kentucky Derby by nearly seven lengths – the biggest margin in 60 years.

When he broke his leg two weeks later, more than $1m was raised for a fund in his honor to help other animals/horses with similar injuries that he had. Christmas songs were written about him.

Here’s a timeline of what Barbaro went throught these last 8.5 months at the New Bolton Center.

…Barbaro no longer is bearing weight on the right hind leg he shattered eight months ago in the Preakness Stakes after undergoing surgery Saturday to place two steel pins through a bone. The biggest fear is that the bone bearing the weight — the cannon bone — can break. From NBC 10 news

Barbaro has taken up residence a few miles from here where he still struggles to survive. When he first was brought to the animal hospital near Kennett Square, Sean and I drove by to see the signs left on the outside fence of encouragement, etc. I bet they are still there. That horse is surely loved around the world.