Barbaro, who rocketed to a six-and-a-half-length victory in the Kentucky Derby last May but sustained a catastrophic injury two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes, was euthanized early this morning in Pennsylvania. (Read more…)

There are so many other important things to get upset over, but this is a bummer. It’s always seemed like such a horrible shame to put down a magnificent creature over a broken leg. The nearly year long attempt to rehabilitate Barbaro was a tiny ray of scientific sunshine in our post rational United States.