Update from the Bolton Center;

Monday's UPDATE:

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) - Barbaro's gallant fight to triumph over his injury and his laminitis has ended. The decision was made by considering what was best for him as a patient.

The entire Penn Vet family is deeply grateful to all friends of Barbaro who sent flowers and gifts -- along with their prayers and messages -- to Barbaro and his caretakers at the New Bolton Center during his stay here.

Our thoughts go out to his owners, Roy and Gretchen Jackson, as well as to everyone who followed his extraordinarily brave battle.

"We will remember Barbaro as a beautiful, magnificent, and brave horse."

 
"We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on without pain," co-owner Roy Jackson said. "It was the right decision, it was the right thing to do. We said all along if there was a situation where it would become more difficult for him then it would be time."

Owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson were with Barbaro on Monday morning, with the owners making the decision in consultation with chief surgeon Dean Richardson.

"I would say thank you for everything, and all your thoughts and prayers over the last eight months or so," Jackson said to Barbaro's fans.

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Barbaro's special shoe - a special three-part, glue-on horseshoe, designed and patented by the Farrier Service at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, that was applied to the hoof on Barbaro's injured leg.

"One of the complications that can occur following leg fractures in horses is the risk of developing laminitis in the opposite foot from bearing extra weight," said New Bolton Center farrier Rob Sigafoos. "To reduce this risk, we applied a supportive shoe to Barbaro's left hind foot immediately following the surgery for the fracture of his right hind leg."

Fans at Churchill Downs signed two Get Well - Best Wishes cards for Barbaro. The cards will be mailed to Barbaro at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa. near Philadelphia.