My Guy Barbaro

<p>A new superstar appeared on the American sports landscape in the spring of 2006. Barbaro a three-year-old racehorse won the Kentucky Derby by the largest margin of victory in sixty years stirring talk of a possible Triple Crown. But in the opening yards of the Preakness Stakes two weeks later the magnificent animal suffered a catastrophic leg injury that ended his un-defeated career and left him fighting for his life.</p><p>One of the world's top jockeys Edgar Prado rode Barbaro to glory and then stood beside him for months as the horse valiantly struggled to survive. <em>My Guy Barbaro</em> is the true story of the dream that carried Prado from an impoverished childhood in Lima Peru to the winner's circles of the world's greatest racetracks--and is the heartwarming account of his love for a beautiful talented irreplaceable teammate. </p>