Barbaro Update...

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by ptgiven

i find it very hard to believe that another horse could possibly shatter the bone of another horses hind leg by stepping on it...if anything i would think that it would just be a huge gash then...but i don't recall seeing any photos showing any blood of some sort coming from barbaro's hind leg...you would think that if brother derek did hit his hind leg there would be a gash of some sort

It would have probably been a gash or some surface wound, but a horse hitting or stepping on another horse while both are running top speed can definitely, definitely cause broken bones. First, Barbaro suffered a condylar fracture of the cannon bone. Then, due to stress on the leg because Barbaro kept wanting to run, the sesamoid and the long pastern bone started to give. I do doubt that BD hit Barbaro, but it is faintly possible.