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Bigfish
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:51 pm |
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CBS Reports Barbaro Is Walking!
Great news! 
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| Hannie
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:52 pm |
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Who is Barbaro?
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| ajandTam
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:54 pm |
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| HannieC wrote: | | Who is Barbaro? |
A Horse. Got injured and almost died.
Gotta go tell my daughter the horse is ok. She is going to be really thrilled. WTG Barbaro.
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| Hannie
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:55 pm |
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Oh, ok thanks tammy.
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| ajandTam
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:57 pm |
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| HannieC wrote: | | Oh, ok thanks tammy. |
You are welcome Hannie....My daughter is a major horse person. Lol. She plays a game at WhiteOaksstables.net drives me nuts cause she made me get an account and play too....
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| Schmerty
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:58 pm |
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| ajandTam wrote: | | HannieC wrote: | | Who is Barbaro? |
A Horse. Got injured and almost died.
Gotta go tell my daughter the horse is ok. She is going to be really thrilled. WTG Barbaro. |
 We love you Barbaro! Wonderful News,still remember you in our prayers!
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| Bigfish
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:58 pm |
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AP-How's this for a breath of fresh air? Barbaro is enjoying daily outings outside his intensive care stall to pick his own grass, enjoy the warm weather and stretch his recovering legs.
Barbaro stepped outside his ICU stall and started daily walks on a grassy area near the unit last week for the first time since having catastrophic injuries in the Preakness nearly three months ago. The Kentucky Derby winner, also recovering from a severe case of laminitis on his left hoof, continues to show signs he's on the road to recovery.
"It's a big step just to know he feels good enough that you can take him out of the stall and walk him around like a normal horse and he eats grass like a normal horse," Dean Richardson, chief surgeon at the New Bolton Center, said Monday. "That doesn't mean he's healed. It just means things are going well right now."
The 3-year-old had made only a couple of brief walks back and forth from his stall to the surgery room at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center until last week. Now Barbaro is walked daily for about 15 to 20 minutes in a secluded area not far from the George D. Widener Hospital ICU.
"I thought he was thrilled the first time he went out," Richardson said in a telephone interview from New Bolton. "He just seemed very happy to be out. You can tell he's looking forward to it every day. It's absolutely normal. Horses love to be outside, obviously, and he's pretty excited about it."
Barbaro is shown on video released by the University of Pennsylvania grazing on grass, with Richardson walking him around.
Barbaro has a cast on his right hind leg that encloses the foot and extends up to just below the hock. There's a bandage on the laminitis-stricken left hind foot, and support wraps on Barbaro's front legs.
The colt's comfort level has taken a surprising turn since Richardson said in early July the prognosis for a full recovery was "poor."
"I think we're lucky his tissues are fairly healthy," Richardson said. "I don't know why he's more comfortable than some horses with the same condition."
Barbaro had the cast on his injured right hind leg changed last Tuesday and Richardson said it might not need to be changed for about another three weeks. The left hoof, which needs to completely regrow if the colt is to have any shot of walking, remains the biggest concern.
"He's got to get this left hind foot to the point where it's a solid structure that can sustain long-term weight bearing," Richardson said. "Could there still be some major things resulting in him having to be put down? Yeah. He's absolutely not out of the woods yet."
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| Schmerty
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:06 pm |
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Thank You BF! What a wonderful article! 
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| JesseLee
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:25 pm |
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Woo hoo Barbaro! Thanks so much for posting this Bigfish!
Got to always stay positive and keep the faith! Go Barbaro!
And while I'm at it -- Go Joe! Free Joran! Aanvullaaahhhhhh!
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| SavannahStar
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:49 pm |
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.
Tears of joy-------> 
I am just SO happy. I followed the news all about him every single day. I missed this. Thank you SO much, Bigfish!
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| Heli
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:00 pm |
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Thanks for bringing us the great news BF
This boy certainly has a great heart and huge spirit.
Kudos to the Jackson's for giving Barbaro every
chance to recover, regardless of cost.
What a beautiful sight!!
Barbaro outside munching on fresh grass 
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| Siddalee
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:35 pm |
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I can't believe it! This is awesoe - I think he will continue to improve now. Yippee!
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| Bigfish
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Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:37 pm |
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You're all quite welcome!
It's nice to hear such good news and I was shocked as I was expecting bad news. I believe in miracles and this truly is a miracle!
BF
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