After watching the Danehill colt suffer multiple injuries to his right front leg and be euthanized on the Monmouth Park track, Roy Jackson could not help but think about Barbaro. The Jacksons' champion homebred also had to be put down after a long health battle that began with a similar injury suffered at the 2006 Preakness Stakes (gr. I).
“We’re not as emotionally involved with George Washington on a day-to-day basis,” Jackson said Oct. 28. “But I would say it brought up some of the same kinds of feelings as the Barbaro story. We didn’t have that connection (to George Washington), but I still feel very sorry about it. He was a special horse.”
George Washington was very popular in Europe, where he spent most of his racing career.
