Two years earlier, Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro broke his leg racing in the Preakness Stakes.
Last week, Barbaro was favored to win the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore.
Now, having said that, Barbaro was kind of an exception to the normal practice.
So, you know, I would say Barbaro kind of went against the grain anyway.
It wasn't long after surgery when Barbaro began to show signs he might make it after all.
And fortunately Barbaro came out of the surgery much better than that, at least according to reports.
The record crowd of 118, 402 watched in shock as Barbaro veered sideways, his right leg flaring out grotesquely.
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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.
But, as I said, you know, Barbaro falls more into the category of the old style horse, in terms of his breeding.
Barbaro has emerged with a guarded prognosis after six hours of surgery, but with a long precarious road to recovery still ahead.
Barbaro sustained "life-threatening injuries" Saturday when he broke bones above and below his right rear ankle at the start of the Preakness Stakes.
Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has suffered another serious setback in his struggle to recover from the broken leg he suffered in the Preakness Stakes.
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.
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Barbaro's surgery to repair three bones shattered in his right rear leg at the Preakness went about as well as Richardson and trainer Michael Matz hoped.
Richardson, who operated on Barbaro at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center for Large Animals on Sunday, said the horse's chances for survival were still 50-50.
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.
Since Barbaro's injury, the Keeneland Association has hosted two summits on the "Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse" to study the reasons modern horses aren't racing as often as they used to.
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.
In the aftermath of Barbaro, who was euthanized in January 2007, eight months after breaking down in the Preakness, and with the advent of social media, racing fans have come to expect regular, detailed updates about injured racehorses.
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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.
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.
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