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If you watched TV last evening, Barbaro, the colt winner of the Kentucky Derby, was terribly injured in the Preakness Stakes:
"The Preakness Stakes was supposed to be a walkover for Barbaro, the undefeated colt who had looked every bit the superhorse when winning the Kentucky Derby two weeks earlier. Ever since the first Saturday in May, his name had been conjoined with the words "potential Triple Crown champion.
Those hopes ended horribly Saturday in the first sixteenth of a mile at Pimlico Race Course when Barbaro suffered potentially life-threatening fractures above and below his right hind ankle. His jockey, Edgar Prado, felt the colt's pain immediately; he slowed Barbaro gradually to a standstill in front of a clubhouse brimming with stunned onlookers."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/21/sports/preakness.php
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