Barbaro, R.I.P.

Barbaro’s story gripped the National Conscience, as well it should. These beautiful and noble thoroughbreds live their lives to give pleasure and status to us lowly humans.

So, it was with sadness that he, and we, had to face the inevitable on Monday when he was euthanized for our human dreams. We could not save him. Once he had laminitis it seemed to me that his future was no longer in question. Not only is it too much pressure to put on any of those fragile legs, but our dreams were too much pressure to put on this noble creature who made us dream.

Barbaro, many of us apologize.