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...mudder. We don't really know if there's anything behind all that anthropomorphizing. But we do know that a horse can suffer as we do--feeling pain, fear, confusion and shock. All of that was on display at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., when Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro shattered his right rear leg at the Preakness Stakes just moments out of the gate. It was the most stunning racehorse disaster since the death of the famous filly Ruffian in 1975 and perhaps the most gruesome sports injury to any creature since the nationally televised sight of Washington Redskins...
...market wants a faster, earlier-maturing horse," says Dan Rosenberg, president of Three Chimneys horse-breeding farm in Midway, Ky., "but there is an incompatibility between speed and durability." Not everyone in the industry agrees, but injuries like Barbaro's raise the question anew every time they occur...
...figure is 34,000. TV contributes to the sense that injuries are on the rise, broadcasting the worst ones over and over. Besides, anytime you've got 1,200 lbs. of animal on the move, accidents will happen. "I've seen horses in the paddock injure themselves," Baffert says. "Barbaro just stepped wrong...
When a horse does get hurt, it's nice to have a repair shop like the Widener Hospital on hand. As would any doctor, one of the first things surgeon Dean Richardson did when Barbaro arrived was feel his patient's pulse--in several spots along the injured leg. Weak pulses or a cold foot would have meant that blood-vessel injury had occurred and the limb was lost. "He had good, strong pulses, and his foot was warm," says Richardson. "I was thrilled...
...Barbaro said he and other council members willbe reviewing the postings on the newsgroup, sothey can hear the feedback from students who wouldotherwise find the council inaccesible...