Saturday I happened to catch the Preakness, and watched as Barbaro pulled up with a shattered ankle.  He's gone through surgery to repair it, though they're saying it's still a coin flip whether he'll survive because of possible complications that can arise:

Richardson, who operated on Barbaro at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center for Large Animals on Sunday, said the horse's chances for survival were still 50-50. Barbaro was standing in his stall at the center's intensive care unit and showed interest in several mares in the vicinity.

"He got through the night very well, day one and into day two is going as well as expected," Corinne Sweeney, a veterinarian and the hospital’s executive director, said Monday. "He is standing on the leg, and with the appropriate amount of weight on it."

 

"He also showed appropriate interest in the mares, which means he's acting like a young colt should."

He'll never race again, but having to end your racing career to become a stud horse doesn't seem all that bad does it?