So sad... What a magnificent horse.
The Rainbow Bridge
Author Unknown
There is a bridge connecting Heaven and Earth. It is called the Rainbow Bridge because of its many colors. Just this side of the Rainbow Bridge there is a land of meadows, hills and valleys with lush green grass.
Barboro has left us and gone to this place.
There are many other Animals there and there is always food and water and warm spring weather. The old and frail animals are young again. Those who are maimed are made whole again.
They play all day with each other.
There is only one thing missing. They are not with the special people who loved them on earth. So, each day they run and play until the day comes when Barbaro suddenly stops playing and looks up! His nose twitches! His ears are up! His eyes are staring, Barboro suddenly runs from the group!
They have been seen and when Barboro runs to them and they all meet Barbaro again. They will take his head in their my arms, feel his softness and warmth and hug and kiss him.
Then Barbaro and those that loved him cross the Rainbow Bridge together, never again to be separated.
Some people say this was just a horse. He wasn't just a horse any more than Michael Jordan was just a basketball player. I only watched him on TV, but he was a magnificent horse and certainly an incredible racer. You got the feeling you were watching something special - a horse that comes along once in a generation.
What's really telling is that after his injury - an injury that would've ended the life of 99.9% of other horses - this animal continued to fight. It was obvious that he was loved, but it was perhaps even more obvious that he had a nearly unstoppable will to live. In the end his body was not as strong as his soul.
I just find it inspiring that an animal could have such strength and determination - a will to live and a passion for life that so many people lack. There are lessons to be learned from this wonderful creature.