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Barbaro sustained a broken cannon bone above the ankle, a broken sesamoid bone behind the ankle and a broken long pastern bone below the ankle.
NPR: Barbaro Makes Progress After Leg Surgery
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Barbaro has emerged with a guarded prognosis after six hours of surgery, but with a long precarious road to recovery still ahead.
NPR: Heartbreak at the Preakness Stakes
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There was - from the day he set foot at Churchill Downs until, you know, the time he set foot on the track at Pimlico, I mean, I never heard a whisper about Barbaro.
NPR: Heartbreak at the Preakness Stakes
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Both legs seemed to heal slowly through the fall, but a few weeks ago, Barbaro began experiencing more pain in his left hind foot, which caused him to put more weight on his right, which in turn developed the abscess.
NPR: Ailing Barbaro Recovering from New Operation
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Barbaro was trying to bite in his stall and even showing interest in a group of mares who stopped by to visit.
NPR: Barbaro Makes Progress After Leg Surgery
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Over this - you know, I thought that, you know, unlike a lot of horses who kind of had hyped in recent years that Barbaro was the real thing and that we were really about to see something extraordinary happen at Pimlico.
NPR: Heartbreak at the Preakness Stakes
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An astonished crowd watched as jockey Edgar Prado leaned into Barbaro's shoulder, the colt lurching on three legs, his right hind leg destroyed by a bad step.
NPR: Heartbreak at the Preakness Stakes