Although it has been more than seven months since Barbaro was euthanatized, owner Roy Jackson says that he and his wife, Gretchen, still receive plenty of letters and fan mail about the fallen champion.

But recently, Jackson says, more of the incoming mail has turned to an uplifting subject–Nicanor, the full brother to Barbaro, by Dynaformer. Now a yearling, Nicanor is only about a month away from being sent to Ocala, Fla., to be broken by John Stevens at his Thoroughbred horse farm in Marion County. Barbaro fans all around the country are anxious to know how little Nicanor is progressing