Is there any news on the horse that broke his back leg in a race ,recently. It was on the news .?
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Jockey Edgar Prado visited Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Barbaro in the colt's stall on Tuesday morning at the New Bolton Center's George D. Widener Hospital in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. \n\nPrado, who returned to riding the day after Barbaro broke down in the Preakness Stakes (G1) on May 20 at Pimlico Race Course, won the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) on Monday aboard Silver Train. Prado said he is still heartbroken, but he expects the visit to go a long way toward making him feel better. \n\n"Seeing him doing better helps a lot," Prado said. "He's not out of the woods but I'm just hoping that he continues to do good. It's going to take a long time before I feel a lot better and am not heartbroken."\n\nPrado said he did not bring anything special for Barbaro.\n\n"Just myself, just to show that I still care and love him," he said. "I think that's more important than anything you can bring. I was very happy. He looked great. He was very bright and strong, and he even wanted to get out of the stall. I'm very happy to see him happy that way."\n\nDean Richardson, D.V.M., the surgeon who operated on Barbaro, said the colt has had "an incredibly good week" since the procedure on May 21.\n\n"He's actually done far better than I would have ever hoped so far," Richardson said, repeating the words "so far" three times for emphasis. "He's perfectly comfortable in his limb, all of his vital signs are normal, [and] his blood work is good. Basically he could not at this moment look any better, in terms of his condition."\n\nImmediately after the surgery, Richardson gave a 50-50 prognosis for Barbaro to survive. He stopped short of issuing a new percentage on Tuesday, but he said "things are definitely better."\n\n"I'd be disingenuous to suggest that they are not better eight days post-op—there's no question that things are a lot better in terms of prognosis," Richardson said. "But it's still a long, long way from being discharged from the hospital."\n\nRichardson said Barbaro appears to be content in his confinement to a 12-by-12-foot stall. \n\n"Depression can only be assessed in certain objective ways: whether or not the horse eats, whether or not it has a bright eye, whether or not it's moving around the stall, whether or not it's interested in his neighbors," Richardson said. "This horse couldn't look a lot better in that regard. He is very active in the stall. When a horse walks by his window he's peaking out there trying to see who it is." \n\nAs of Tuesday morning, the cast on Barbaro's injured right hind leg had not been changed since the surgery. \n\n"Right now this horse is walking so well on his limb, he willingly rests his left hind, he walks around the stall and is very active, so my inclination at this point is to literally go day by day," Richardson said. "There's no absolutely compelling reason to change the cast, so I'm going to make that decision every single day that I look at the horse. … If he continues to look as good as he does, he can wear this cast for several more weeks."—Jeff Lowe
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I hope it's not too late.  This is very informative.  Maybe it will help.http://www.equineonline.net/uk/equestrian_articles/seabiscuit.htm
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In this day in age...living in the "Sue Me" Century...I recommend not posting anything.\n\nThe riding stable has a huge "Use Facilities at Own Risk" sign.  They still got sued, and lost, because a kid got stepped on (by his own horse) and suffered a fractured foot.\n\nOh, he was washing his horse barefoot, with his Mom helping and in a swimsuit, when this occurred.
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Bernardini won.\n\nBarbaro suffered a double-fracture in his right hind leg and is at the horse hospital.\n\nFingers crossed he can be used for stud...otherwise he will not have a happy ending.\n\nI still remember Genuine Risk, and her early demise.
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From what I can gather, he doesn't ride anymore, but is still a prominent figure in the teaching/coaching world of horse riding.  Check out his homepage.\n\nMatt
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No he won't be back soon. During rehab he suffered a major setback.  He is sidelined for an indefinite period of time with that knee injury. I don't really think they have a time frame in mind at the moment but he has started practicing, although he is still experiencing pain in the knee which has been surgically repaired twice and he is not nearly in game shape. So it will be a while
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The Triple Crown horses are very young...a Thoroughbred is a year old January 1st, even if he was born December 31, at 11:59.  So when they rae called "3 year olds"  the horses can be anywhere from 25 months to 36 months old.  Add to that, they are very high strung, there bones ar very delicate, considering the average weight and the average speed.  A race horse can run at 40 mph and they can weigh 1200 to 1500 pounds or more, that kind of weight at that kind of speed usually demolishes a leg, beyond the point of repair.  Then, there are the problems of poor circulation.  When a race horse breaks a leg during a race, it usually causes a compound fracture, or in other words, a bone protrudes from the skin adding infection to all the other factors.  The healing time a horse takes to mend a broken bone, the level or pain, the usefullness, the value of the animal, the severity of altered gait after the injury has healed are all taken into consideration.  If the animal has to walk with an extremely abnormal gait, the other 3 legs will be unduly stressed, causing the animal more and more pain.  Would you want to live if you couldn't run like the wind?  If just walking to get a drink hurt you so bad, all you wanted to do was lie down?  The filly, Ruffian had undergone surgery to repair her shattered leg, but she was too uncontrollable, too excitable and she was unable to be calmed down to control her pain, so they had to put her down.  Let's just hope the vet staff can control Barbaro better.  (At this time, I have no idea of the success of the surgery)
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On July 6 1975 legendary filly Ruffian broke her leg at Belmont Park during a match race against Foolish Pleasure.  She was later put down.
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Good question.  I think it's barbaric that race horses are destroyed because they break a leg.  However my brother is one of the starters at a race course and of course has to help deal with injured horses. He says that they are so destressed and in agony that is the kindest thing they can do.  Have you ever seen a six foot muscle man cry!  He does every time he has to help deal with the slaughter of a horse.\nI also believe that the cost is a huge factor for owners who are left with expensive bills and no income as the horse will never race again.  Consider this, my dog broke his leg in the summer, it has cost almost £1500 pounds so far to fix him, imagine he was a horse.!
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The surgery was completed not long ago. He had metal implants to hold the ankle together and is recovering now. He will live, but he will never race again
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Horses that break a leg in a race are unlikley to even walk again and they are in great pain so sometimes the best thing to do for them is the put them down.
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this is because he is injured.\ni think he has damaged a muscle in his leg.
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At least we live in a day and age where animals have a great chance of being saved when they have life threatening injuries. I am thinking that he has improved a lot since there has not been any news about hime on Yahoo lately. It is loking now that he will manage to become a breeding stallion so we may very well be seeing little Barbaro's running on the track soon.\n\nI would like to add that until we begin to cross speed horses with distance horses, we will probably never win another Triple Crown.
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It was some kind of shoulder/arm injury, he was looked over and released, he should be fine for this weekend.  I guess he took a pretty nasty hit.  Good job Harvick.
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He messed up his knee.  No report yet, but he was getting an MRI test.  He slid for a ball and his leg bent sideways and his knee buckled and gave out.  I would guess that its an ACL or MCL injury and he is OUT.
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Mill Reef fractured - didn't *break* (like all the way through) his leg. He was euthanized due to a heart condition in 1986. \nEspecially in horses there's a big difference in a break and a fracture.
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dirty joke\nwhite horse fell in mud