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    Barbaro: A Nation's Love Story

    By Pamela K. Brodowsky and Tom Philbin

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    This up-to-minute book follows the story of Barbaro, the Triple Crown contender whose unlikely fight back from almost certain death from a shattered leg and ensuing complications captured the hearts of a nation who responded with a stunning display of love.

    In 132 years of derby races, only 11 horses have won the Triple Crown, the last in 1978. Barbaro was a favorite to be the twelfth until May 20, 2006, at the Preakness Stakes, when his jockey, Edgar Prado pulled him up a couple of hundred yards from the starting gate. Subsequent examination revealed that he had virtually exploded bones in his right rear leg so badly that under normal conditions he would have been euthanized right on the track. But his owners, Roy and Gretchen Jackson, chose another path, one filled with anxiety and tears—but also courageous determination to save his life.

    This touching, soaring book—filled with insights from Barbaro's trainers, breeders, caretakers, and owners—follows Barbaro from foal to colt to champion to perfect patient. But In the end it is not just a story of a down-but-not-out champion, but of human beings at their very best.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061737626
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      I am definitely not an “animal person” but I do have a fascination with the Kentucky Derby, and the Triple Crown. I watched Barbaro win the Derby, and I watched in horror as he broke down during the Preakness. I’ve read other books about great thoroughbreds and was expecting a great read, but I was sorely disappointed. It seemed that some of this must have been written for a contemporary magazine or journal piece, and perhaps the other author came in to expand it to book length. The whole things felt choppy and quickly written to take advantage of the public’s interest in the story. One chapter would be in present tense, and another in past tense. There is some repetition, which a good editor might have corrected. And there are pages of statistics (i.e. names of Triple Crown winners). And then there are pages … and pages … and pages … of the letters and messages sent by Barbaro’s adoring fans during the months when veterinarians tried – in vain – to save him from his horrific, leg-shattering injury. The book seems to end when Barbaro is still recuperating. Then there are pages of glossary of terms used in horse racing, followed by a plea to help stop horse slaughter in the United States, followed by facts on horse slaughter, followed by photo credits, and then finally an epilogue that explains how Barbaro was ultimately humanely euthanized.I just found the whole thing boring. And now, if I think of this horse at all, I’ll think not of his stupendous Derby win, but of this terrible book.

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