So said USA Today in a front page story yesterday. (They’ve got an excellent photo gallery here.)

The champion thoroughbred isn’t out of the woods yet, but the fact that he’s made it this far speaks volumes about him. Were it that all of our human champions had such strength of body and spirit.

Back in the spring, I reflected shortly after Barbaro’s injury that thoroughbreds were born to run. Here’s hoping that someday he’s well enough to get out in the grass and find his stride once more.