born to run

I am not a fan of horse racing, I'm a fan of running horses and Barbaro was born to run.

I don't want to think about the ethics of using animals to make money, pushing them through race after race, or the money spent to try to reconstruct them so they can at least be used for stud purposes, but one can hardly help thinking of all of that.

Barbaro's x-ray is not unlike mine, a rattletrap, train track of rods and pins.

Let's hope that we all learned a little something from Barbaro, more than that he was a fine racehorse, maybe that we have to be a little easier on the fast runners.