Barbaro Update

Barbaro is out of surgery and doing well.

The acid test, however, will be over the next two months. Keep the prayers coming -- the main thing is that laminitis (a condition in which blood doesn't circulate to the hoof) doesn't set in. After eight weeks, if things look good for Barbaro, he's golden. But it's hard to know until then.

It's a blessing that the injury didn't break the skin. If it had, Barbaro would have had to be euthanized at the track. Fortunately, Edgar Prado realized something was very wrong, and pulled him up in time. Had Barbaro made it around the first turn, the injury would almost certainly have claimed this magnificent horse's life.

Let's pray that good news keeps coming.