Classic winner Barbaro has developed "acute, severe" laminitis in his uninjured left hind foot, and his prognosis for recovery is "poor," according to Dr. Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa.

LAMINITIS
COURTESY JAMES WALDSMITH

A thermograph of a horse in the early stages of the onset of laminitis.

Speaking at a press conference Thursday morning, Dr. Richardson stated that Barbaro’s laminitis is "as bad a case as you can get." In a resection procedure done Wednesday, a large portion of Barbaro’s hoof wall was removed, and just 20% of the wall is still attached to the coffin bone, according to Richardson. His left hind leg is in a foam cast presently as they try to re-grow the hoof wall

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