Magnificent Manifestation
The funniest thing I’ve read in weeks:
The awestruck populace listened in rapt attention to the words of the great horse’s spirit as he urged the people to remove their metaphorical blinders and open their eyes to the world around them; to never put too much weight on their sesamoid and long pastern bones; and to remember that Barbaro Day is not just the day that Barbaro died, but the day that human beings learned to put their differences aside and treat one another as they would want a 1,200-pound racehorse to be treated.
[Thanks, Dana.]
More poignantly, Jon White imagines what might have been if Barbaro had never been injured in the Preakness. I’m with him, right up to the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Invasor would have totally beaten Barbaro, if the two had had a chance to meet on the track.
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