Barbaro

Bill Heinz.
National Freaking Treasure.

 

Exactly true. I hesitated to post it.

 

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. — Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has
come out of surgery after six hours and was standing in an
intensive care unit.

 

Tremendous story. Great imagery.

I really hope Babaro pulls through.

 

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, wearing a cast up to his knee, was recovering tonight at the University of
Pennsylvania’s George D. Widener Hospital after surgery to repair three broke bones in his leg.

“He was walking on his own,” Chief Surgeon Dean Richardson said after more than four hours of surgery at the Kennett
Square, Pennsylvania, hospital.

Trainer Michael Matz said the three-year-old colt walked into his stall and starting eating hay.

Barbaro suffered three fractures, including one to the cannon bone above the ankle, a second in the long pastern bone below the
ankle and a third within the ankle joint.

 

Barbaro walking on his own, AP cites the surgeon as saying.

 

That was an excellent piece. :'(

And I'm glad to hear Barbaro is doing OK.

 

Nothing tasteless about that Heinz piece, its a work of art.

Glad to hear the good news about Barbaro.

 

Just out of curiosity, shouldn't it be "broken bones" instead of "broke bones."

 

"Walking on his own"....THAT makes me want to cry....if you read the Nureyev piece, that horse didn't walk on his own for 3 months....

When you read Heinz on anything -- a horse, a boxer, a war -- you are reminded that the "death" of newspapers is really just the death of writers willing to get off their asses, watch, listen, ask, care, and write it clean and simple.