[Lemondropkid31]

If anyone tries to blame what happened on Edgar Prado or Micheal Matz, I feel like I will go ballistic. If I had race horses, these are the two guys I would want taking car of them.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think a big rant about cruelty and negligence in the sport was particularly out of place in an event where no abuse is being alleged here, and they just spent a small fortune to save this horse.

It reads like the talking points from a PETA pamphlet. Exaggerated claims and other 'facts' that are just plain wrong.

[AnAmericanMother]

This is as good a place as any to note the splendid job Edgar Prado did in stopping Barbaro without further injury.

I watched the tape over a couple of times, and Prado's superb balance and control kept Barbaro on his feet and most of his weight off that leg.

And for him to be able to do that from essentially a perch on the horse's back with no leg contact to speak of is amazing.

If anything had been wrong before the race or after the false start, a man this sensitive to what's going on would have detected it. And he's said the horse was perfectly all right until he broke down.