Barbaro Updates: 345
updates are now here.
Update 2242: Jose Santos, Funny Cide's Derby winning jockey, has also now retired: Santos Retires; Has Five Fractures in Spine.
Update 2241: Rags to Riches is back in training and the Alabama Stakes remains a possibility: Rags to Riches OK; Returns to Training, excerpt:
"She'll resume training and we'll go from there," Pletcher said outside his Saratoga barn after receiving the news from Dr. Paul Thorpe, the attending veterinarian for the filly's owners Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith. "Like I said all along, I knew there was nothing dramatically wrong the filly. Obviously, we are going to take every precaution we could, and we have."
Update 2240: Just a quick update on the horses that ran this weekend. Who's Happy dug right into her feed tub after her race on Saturday and seems to be just fine after finishing 2nd. Red Aspen has come out of her race with a little ulcer on her eye. We will have the veterinarian look at it a little more closely this morning. She has eaten up and is very bright in her stall this morning. Quick Quest is entered to run tomorrow at Delaware. The race is on the turf and hopefully we will stay on the turf.
More Later!
Update 2239: This appears to be a great way to support Laminitis Research: Secretariat, Barbaro prints to benefit laminitis research, excerpt:
"The New Bolton Center is making some exciting headway in its laminitis research, and its efforts should be widely supported throughout the equine community," Chenery said. "These horses have given so much of themselves, and we owe it to them to find a cure for this disease."
"Roy and I are so honored to have this opportunity to give back to the New Bolton Center," Gretchen Jackson said. "Jaime's incredible portraits of Secretariat and Barbaro capture the noble spirits that made them both such endearing champions."
For those interested in learning a little more about speed figures this article, debating the time of Lawyer Ron's Whitney Handicap, sheds some light: A track-record Whitney -- or was it?, excerpt:
On the Beyer Speed Figure scale, Ginger Punch earned a raw figure of 114. In her two previous starts, she had earned Beyers of 104 and 103 and this appeared to be a roughly similar performance, deserving of a variant of around -10 that would have given her a final Beyer of 104. But Lawyer Ron's raw figure in the Whitney was an astronomical 138, and applying a variant of -10 again would give him an implausible figure of 128, a level reached only by Ghostzapper in the last decade.
Good Monday Morning FOBs,
Time to get back to work and hopefully get more co-sonsors for H.R.503 and S.311. I can't understand what is wrong with these legislators. The American people overwhelmingly oppose horse slaughter. Doesn't that matter?
Janice
A forever FOB
Posted by: Janice from Florida at July 30, 2007 12:09 PM