23 May, 2006

Barbaro, Bernardini, Breakdowns

Here are a couple of really great articles about what happened at the Preakness and what may be happening to thoroughbreds that might be making them less sound than they used to be.

Oh, and a picture of Bernardini. And a couple of updates.

One, unrelated to racing but very very sad nonetheless, Chris Antley was murdered, apparently, in California in 2000 - just a year after the Charismatic Triple Crown. And Edgar Prado rode at least one other ill-fated horse in the Breeders' Cup mile. In 2002, Landseer broke a front leg, threw Prado, and had to be euthanized at the track.

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