Equestrian Network Magazine


	A Legacy From Barbaro "Our Shattered Dreams"
	Richard Parker, Mentor, Ohio

	In A Span Of Months, A Creature's Life Passed Us By, Felled In A Crushing Splinter Of Bones, Resistant To All His Keepers Try.

	As Millions Maintained Weeks Long Vigil, Others Scoffed The Cards And Scorned The Ritual.

	There Is A Point That Some May Say, Why This Equine Evoked A Special Way. But In This Hour Of His Most Urgent Need, Humans Felt Guilty, And Driven To Succeed.

	Weeks Prior, One Sunny Day, At The Most Important Race, His Innocent Life Had Flashed Across Our Screens, As He Set That Extraordinary Pace,

	He Fired Our Immaginations, To See What Some Can Do. Those Waves of Muscles, Pushing Their Way To Move Out And Through.

	He Won So Sleek And Powerful, So Majestic And Unstoppable, To All It Would Utterly Astound, He Was Certain To Win The Triple Crown.

	When His Little Life Earlier Began, As A Pony, On A Farm, In Our Heartland, He Like Us, Romped And Played, Growing Up, Trying To Please Along The Way.

	For All It Appears Our Destinies Ought To Be, Nothing Here For Certain Can Give That Guarantee.

	He Did What He Was Asked To Do, In Our Solitude, We Reflect, If We Do Too. For Much We Try Does Not Measure Up. ExpectationsWhen Shattered, End So Abrupt.

	Sometimes Those We Care About So Very Much, Shut Us Out, Leaving Little Or Nothing To Clutch. Is It Our Fault That This Can Be So? Or Is It A Purpose For Which We Will Never Know?

	When We Might Think We Almost Had It All, Suddenly A Slip And Then A Long Fall.

	Will Your Life Really Be More Certain, Or Different Then Barbaro? And If It Can, Do You Dare Expect It So?


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