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Old 05-10-2015, 09:17 AM
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Just out of curiosity, what great horses did Barbaro beat in his Kentucky Derby? To me it looked like, the typical bad field of Derby starters.
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Old 05-10-2015, 10:13 AM
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Default That was the last Preakness I attended

We were seated right in front of the starting gate. What I remember to this day was watching him pull up and Prado getting off and being amazed at how the crowd was pretty oblivious to the tragedy that had just occurred. I couldn't take my eyes off of it...
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Old 05-10-2015, 04:43 PM
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Just out of curiosity, what great horses did Barbaro beat in his Kentucky Derby? To me it looked like, the typical bad field of Derby starters.
Bluegrass Cat, Brother Derek, Showing Up and Lawyer Ron weren't GREAT...but they were pretty good horses and Barbaro handled them pretty easily that day.

Several people on here seem to be assuming that the gate incident directly led to the injury. We don't really know that do we? It certainly could have played a role but sometimes horses just take a bad step.
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Old 05-11-2015, 01:37 PM
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Just out of curiosity, what great horses did Barbaro beat in his Kentucky Derby? To me it looked like, the typical bad field of Derby starters.
To me it wasn't WHO he beat but HOW he beat them. It was very convincing.
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