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Commentary about Barbaro from an all-knowing sports columnist with the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/sports/columnists/la-sp-simers30jan30,1,4331430.column?coll=la-headli nes-sports-columnists&ctrack=1&cset=true
My counterpoint:
I was not one of the emo crowd who cried when I heard Barbaro was dead. I was sorry he was put down. I am glad he no longer suffers. I wondered how his owners and jockey were feeling. I can relate to their attachment to him even though I personally did not have a strong attachment to him. I am not saying he wasn't a great horse. It just was not personal for me. I can understand how devastated his owners and jockey must feel not because of the loss of "breeding stock" but because of a relationship with a living being. As far as knowing exactly when to put him down I think it is very hard to sit this far away and be able to speculate when the "right time" was. I have no personal experience like this with a horse but I can tell you as a nurse I have seen people hang onto patients who had no chance of any substantial quality of life outside of a miracle. But I did not criticize them because I understand how hard it is to give up hope despite dismal circumstances when it is somebody you love.
Here are two pictures that say a lot to me about why extraordinary measures were taken to try and save this colt. Look at the relationship between this horse and this jockey. I feel his pain today.
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