BARBARO UPDATE: News conference scheduled for 11

Supposed to give an update on the horse's condition at that time.

Not sure if the conference will be accessible via the Net.

 

Anyone else get the feeling they're going to say Barbaro is dead?

 

I'd think we'd have heard that by now, if that was the case.

 

Well, maybe they'll say they have to put down Barbaro.

 

Purely a hunch, but I think they'll deliver at least semi good news

 

You can watch from this Web site.

www.whas11.com

Not sure if you have to subscribe/register, though.

 

Vet says Barbaro has had "even more serious" complications over the last couple days.

Laminitis (sp?) main culprit.

 

Prognosis for life and comfort significantly diminsihed, but after long discussions with connections -- they have decided to continue treatment.

Just called laminitis "catastrophic."

Yet he says the Jacksons' only concern is the horse's comfort. They say everything else is fine with the horse.

 

Is continuing treatment really what's in the best interest of the animal? I'm not one of those extremist PETA freaks, but I can't come up with a single reason to keep flogging this horse with medical treatments other than they want the stud fees the horse will command. Certainly in the best interest of the breeder, but this seems abusive to me.

 

Ding, ding: "stud fees."

 

Well, if you were the animal, are you sure you'd be all that eager for the alternative?

 

Somehow, I don't think the horse has at any point contemplated his mortality.