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Barbaro fighting for his life after pulling up lame in Preakness.(race horse)
Byline: Mike Jensen
BALTIMORE _ The jockey may have known something was wrong before his horse sensed it Saturday.
Hearing "a noise" about 100 yards past the starting gate, jockey Edgar Prado began pulling Barbaro up as the horse wobbled another 100 yards on three legs, still full of energy, his right rear hind leg up in the air, already broken in two places, turned at an unnatural angle.
Out on the track, one of the first track workers to reach the Kentucky Derby winner screamed out an expletive. Once Barbaro was surrounded and stopped, assistant trainer Peter Brette patted the horse and put his head against Barbaro's side. Owner Gretchen Jackson put her arm around Prado. The equine ambulance pulled up right in front of the main grandstand just past the finish line. A woman screamed from the front row: "No! Don't put that horse down! Take him home!"
It was instantly apparent even as the other horses continued around the track at Pimlico Race Course and Bernardini beat Sweetnorthernsaint by 5\ lengths to win the 131st Preakness…
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