Game On caught an image of the new statue commemorating Barbaro’s Kentucky Derby in 2006, an impressive display of MY FREAKING GOD, PEOPLE, IT’S JUST A DAMN HORSE!
A bronze statue was unveiled yesterday at Churchill Downs of the race’s 2006 winner, who died after a lengthy battle with a hoof condition. Barbaro’s ashes are buried beneath the sculpture, which stands near Gate 1, next to the Kentucky Derby Museum.
The artwork is being called a first, because it shows the horse in midair, with no feet touching the ground.
The statue is about 5/4 the size of the actual Barbaro, which could make a lot of guys uncomfortable if it’s anatomically correct. The Derby, by the way, is this Friday Saturday. I think of it as the NCAA Tournament for horses, since the participants get paid with lodging and oats, and can pretty much screw whoever they want. Beats having your scrotom hair burned off by a laptop five days a week. But then, so does…everything.
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Fun Fact: “Hoof disease” has also ended many’a WNBA career.
Uh, Punte, Churchill Downs is a HORSE track. What kind of statue did you have in mind? A statue of Toonces?
thanks for adding to the list of things to urinate on this weekend.
Brown = hilarious/probably true
Ummm…Derby is always the first Saturday in May so it’s not actually taking place this Friday. Although, there’s nothing that says you can’t start drinking mint juleps on Friday.
Ironically, the statue remains upright due to a strange and strong adhesive that may or may not be the horse’s remains.
Nice bronze-sculpted shoes, asshole.
This is bullshit, and not just from the “it’s a fucking horse” angle. It’s bullshit from the “it’s not even a good fucking horse” angle. The only reason Barbaro is even remembered is because the horse got fucked live on national TV. Hell, over a hundred other horses won the Kentucky Derby, and I don’t see a herd outside of Churchill Downs for all the dead ones. The only horse that really deserves a statue at the Downs is Secretariat.