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Written by Gohorsepower.com
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Thursday, 05 April 2007 |
 NBC Sports has announced that a documentary called "Barbaro: A Nation's Horse" will air on the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner's birthdate of April 29. The date falls on a Sunday, and the program airs at 5 PM Eastern, the weekend before the 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby. A DVD will also be available. Barbaro, born in 2003, turned four by North American Thoroughbred racing standards on January 1st.
Press release from NBC Sports:
NEW YORK – April 5, 2007 – NBC Sports presents "Barbaro: A Nation's Horse," a special one-hour documentary look at the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, who touched the hearts of horse racing fans and animal lovers around the world last year with his fight for life before finally succumbing to injuries suffered at the Preakness Stakes. "Barbaro: A Nation's Horse" looks back at the thoroughbred's impressive six and a half length win at the Derby, his dramatic injury and his amazing will to live that captured the imagination of the public. The film also examines Barbaro's legacy and impact on the future of horse racing. "Barbaro: A Nation's Horse" premieres at 5 p.m. ET Sunday, April 29 on NBC, on what would have been Barbaro's fourth birthday.
"It's extremely rare that an athlete stirs the depth of emotion among people that Barbaro did," said Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Universal Sports & Olympics and executive producer, "Barbaro: A Nation's Horse." "We were lucky enough to have a front row seat to witness the rise of this remarkable horse to win the most prestigious event in thoroughbred racing, the Kentucky Derby. Sadly, we were also there for his devastating fall at the Preakness Stakes; and we were there to document why his subsequent struggle to live touched so many people."
A special trailer for "Barbaro: A Nation's Horse" premieres Friday, April 6 on NBCSports.com.
"Barbaro: A Nation's Horse," which began production in January, includes rare footage of Barbaro preparing for last year's Florida Derby, as the colt was beginning to display his incredible athletic abilities. The documentary also includes interviews with Roy and Gretchen Jackson, Barbaro's owners; Michael Matz, his trainer; Edgar Prado, the jockey who rode Barbaro during both his winning turn at the Kentucky Derby and at the Preakness; Dr. Dean Richardson, the head of surgery at the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, who cared for Barbaro through his final hours; Peter Brette, Matz's assistant trainer who worked most closely with Barbaro.
DVDs of "Barbaro: A Nation's Horse" will be sold on NBCSports.com, with 50 percent of the proceeds benefiting the Barbaro Fund and the Laminitis Fund at the New Bolton Center. The Barbaro Fund was created when an anonymous donor made an extremely generous donation to the New Bolton Center; the Barbaro Fund supports ongoing patient care and expansion of the George D. Widener Large Animal Hospital, Penn Veterinary Medicine's world-renowned clinical, research and teaching hospital. The Laminitis Fund is specifically geared towards researching this incurable disease that took the life of both Barbaro and the great Secretariat.
"Barbaro" is produced by Emmy Award winner Rob Hyland; Dick Ebersol serves as executive producer.
End of press release
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