Barbaro's Legacy Lives In His Brother
Jack Renaud is a CBS News producer based in New York. He's attended 12 Kentucky Derbies, but is still waiting patiently to witness his first Triple Crown.
No one has an answer. Not his trainer, not his owners, not his legion of fans.
No one can tell you exactly why Barbaro, America's tragic Super Horse, affected so many people, so deeply. The mere fact that his baby brother Nicanor (pictured above, being walked by exercise rider Pam Ritter at Palm Meadows in Boynton Beach, Fla.) is about to come to the racetrack for the first time has people in the horse world whispering. No one is saying "Nic" will be nearly as good as his big brother (was Jim Belushi really ever as funny as his brother John?). Well, if even if he's half as good, that will really be something.
But Barbaro's biggest legacy goes beyond the racetrack ...
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No one can tell you exactly why Barbaro, America's tragic Super Horse, affected so many people, so deeply. The mere fact that his baby brother Nicanor (pictured above, being walked by exercise rider Pam Ritter at Palm Meadows in Boynton Beach, Fla.) is about to come to the racetrack for the first time has people in the horse world whispering. No one is saying "Nic" will be nearly as good as his big brother (was Jim Belushi really ever as funny as his brother John?). Well, if even if he's half as good, that will really be something.
But Barbaro's biggest legacy goes beyond the racetrack ...
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