
Updated: 5/1/2008
Barbaro will be memorialized at Churchill Downs in the way owner Gretchen Jackson always pictures the colt: sprinting, all four legs off the ground.
Gretchen and her husband, Roy, on Wednesday unveiled the design of a bronze statue of the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner. The 1,500-pound work designed by sculptor Alexa King is expected to be on display outside a gate at Churchill in time for next year's Derby.
Barbaro was the runaway winner of the Derby but broke down in the Preakness. He died months later after a fight with laminitis.
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