Barbaro's Trainer Not Getting Hopes Up
The Associated Press
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The medical updates on Barbaro seem encouraging, yet the trainer of the ailing Kentucky Derby winner isn't allowing himself to become too optimistic.
"I'm not getting my hopes up," Michael Matz said Saturday. "I'm just taking it one day at a time - but he's trying."
Matz and his family spent the day at Saratoga Race Course, where the trainer's two entries finished up the track in the first and third races.
Barbaro's condition remained unchanged in Friday's latest report from the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa. The 3-year-old colt still has many months of recovery after shattering three bones in his right hind leg at the start of the May 20 Preakness and developing laminitis in his left hind leg nearly three weeks ago.
The cast on his left hind is changed daily so the laminitis - an often-fatal hoof disease - can be treated and watched for infection. The cast of the right hind was changed Wednesday.
"We took new radiographs, and they look good," Dean Richardson, the chief surgeon attending Barbaro, said Friday. "No problems were evident."
Matz, who still visits Barbaro daily, didn't have a rewarding day at Saratoga. Sly One finished fifth in the first race and When the Saints was last in a six-horse field in the third race. Barbaro's owners Gretchen and Roy Jackson also own Sly One, a 4-year-old colt. |
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