The ashes of Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro will be interred at Churchill Downs, where the Derby is run every year, his owners, Roy and Gretchen Jackson, announced yesterday, according to The Associated Press.
Barbaro, who was injured during the 2006 Preakness Stakes, was treated for over eight months at Penn's New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa. He was euthanized after suffering a laminitis infection in his left hind foot.
He will be laid to rest next to the planned site of a Barbaro statue.
"After the Derby and then he got injured, he really became America's horse," Roy Jackson told the AP. "We sort of felt an obligation that his remains and statue be erected some place where the general public could pay their respects."
The New Bolton Center and the Jacksons have raised $1.3 million thus far for the Barbaro Fund, which will go toward expanding the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals and the purchase of new equipment for the facility.
