Barbaro A Nation's Love Story

Name: Barbaro A Nation's Love Story
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ISBN: 9780061284854

ISBN-10: 0061284858

ISBN-13: 9780061284854

Edition: 2007

Authors: Tom Philbin, Pamela K. Brodowsky

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This up-to-minute book follows the story of Barbaro, the Triple Crown contender whose unlikely fight back from almost certain death from a shattered leg and ensuing complications captured the hearts of a nation who responded with a stunning display of love. In 132 years of derby races, only 11 horses have won the Triple Crown, the last in 1978. Barbaro was a favorite to be the twelfth until May 20, 2006, at the Preakness Stakes, when his jockey, Edgar Prado pulled him up a couple of hundred yards from the starting gate. Subsequent examination revealed that he had virtually exploded bones in his right rear leg so badly that under normal conditions he would have been euthanized right on…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/26/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Tom Philbin and his brother Michael have been close to crime (and its consequences) for many years. Tom is a longtime freelance writer who has written nine cop novels. He lives in New York. Mike Philbin is a musician and lives in New Hampshire.