Churchill Downs to observe Barbaro anniversary

Sports Digest

January 29, 2008

Barbaro's owners will return to Churchill Downs today to honor the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner on the first anniversary of his death.

Neither the Jacksons - Roy and Gretchen - nor Churchill Downs would elaborate on plans. The Kentucky Derby Museum, a few hundred feet from the finish line in Louisville, has offered to set up a memorial for the colt in whatever manner the Jacksons deem appropriate.

Barbaro was euthanized Jan. 29, 2007, after an eight-month fight for survival after his breakdown in the 2006 Preakness.

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