Barbaro Barbaro everywhere

Press Release from the National Thoroughred unReality Association: Alex Waldrop CEO of the NTRA announced today that every race in America will be renamed for Barbaro, "You know what? It puts asses in seats." Barbaro as you may remember or have been told, or maybe scolded with, was the second coming of Secretariat, War Admiral, Secretariat and Seabiscuit all wrapped into one. He won stakes on turf, dirt, and some say they saw him race a cheetah trained by Jeff Mullins 200 yards and won, in hand by 2 lengths. Recently, tracks around the country have renamed races in his honor. The first was Pimlico renaming the Sir Barton stakes on the Preakness undercard to the Barbaro Stakes. Sir Barton was the first ever winner of the Triple Crown, but to this blogger's knowledge he didn't win the Laurel Futurity, so who really cares about him. As fate would have it the race was won by Chelokee, trained by the same trainer as was Barbaro, Michael Matz. Matz claimed after the race that he hoped to win every race named after Barbaro no matter where they put it. Unfortunately, this bold prediction was thwarted this past weekend. The Barbaro Stakes Gr III, previously the Leonard Richards, was won by Exchanger ridden by Edgar Prado. Michael Matz didn't even have an entry. Reached for comment Matz explained, "I'd like to see everyone who had a connection to this horse win a race named Barbaro, from the jockey to the hotwalker to the stall mucker. It's just fair that these people get the glory they deserve. Barbaro was a special horse and the people involved with him were special, and the poeple who know those people are special, and the people who blog about Barbaro are special, and the people who post on bulletin boards are special. They all deserve to win races, and it's sad that there aren't more of them." The CEO of the NTRA made Matz's idea reality. Every race in the country will now be renamed after the greatest horse to look through a stall door: Barbaro. Mr. Waldrop further explained, "Barbaro is our Jackie Robinson. Jakie broke the color barrier in baseball in 1947, Barbaro broke his leg in 2006, the parallels are spooky." The NTRA realizes this could lead to confusion, so they will allow some poetic license. Tracks have already begun to switch. The Belmont Stakes will be renamed "Barbaro would have won this by 20 Stakes" The Acorn will be now known as "Barbaro would have had a sex change and won by a street Oaks" The Breeder's Cup is now the "I won this race, but Barbaro was still better Classic" Other people found this a little weird aswell.