Barbaro Update from media

Originally Posted by boldruler

I just posted that he was doing well the other day and a few people said they doubted that and this was bad news. Nothing could be more untrue. If he didn't throw in his little jab about my "questionable" or whatever word he used connection to the horse, and said his dr. knew more, I would have just said ok. There are Barbaro haters out there. I have heard about some of the sick e-mail they have gotten, but I doubt this guy was one of them. Everyone is very protective of the horse and all their horses. The medium sized operations have to be or the bigger guys will eat them up. It is a super competitive game, but I don't need to tell a guy like you that. His story about the screws was just wrong. Like I said, they thought it was likely they would have to do this all along.

One last time though, "All this surgery was done under fluoroscopic control, using little, small incisions, so it wasn't like you were opening the leg back up or anything," Richardson said. "These were done through one-centimeter incisions, so tiny incisions."

Ruler I don't know you well even though we have emailed each other but I don't think you are at all a bad guy. The person you are trying to incite is someone I have known a long time and we have never been particularly friendly but you don't have to be a friend of someone to respect them. The guy in question absolutely knows more people in this game than you could imagine. He also has a tremendous knowledge of the game and would not post something like he talked to a surgeon unless he had, hes not that type of person. Lastly, hes about the last guy in the world who would ever send anyone a hate mail over a horse. Hes about the only guy alive I know who I would say has a love of the game as much as i do that I know of. He also doesnt need me to defend him at all. The only reason I say this is that for you to continue to harp on this with him is only going to lead to long threads with unpleasant exchanges between the two of you.
Everyone wants this horse to survive and go to stud. How about letting this one go? We are all on the same side of the coin regarding this topic.