A new cast has been placed on the left hind leg of classic winner Barbaro as the Kentucky Derby winner continues his recovery from the effects of laminitis in that foot.

Roy Jackson, who raced Barbaro in partnership with his wife, Gretchen, said the new cast will help stabilize the Dynaformer colt’s leg and will not affect Barbaro’s mobility and ability to be exercised daily. The procedure was performed at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center Jan. 3 by Scott Morrison, DVM, head of the equine podiatry service at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington.

Barbaro has been in the intensive care unit of Penn’s George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals since he injured his right rear leg during the May 20 Preakness Stakes.

“It (cast) goes up to the coronet band and doesn’t affect his mobility,” Jackson said. “This is a very routine type of thing that is done with laminitis. It is nothing out of the ordinary. It helps to stabilize things and the foot to grow. He will continue to go out every day