KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) -- Barbaro's right hind bones are healing so well his cast could have been off by now, if not for the laminitis in his other hind leg.
Dr. Dean Richardson said the painful hoof disease the Kentucky Derby winner has is preventing the cast from being removed because the colt could not protect himself by bearing more weight on the left hind.
Barbaro's left hind hoof, which was stricken with a severe case of laminitis, is improving and started to show slight signs of re-growing after 80 percent of it was removed.
