PHILADELPHIA -- How's this for a br...

PHILADELPHIA -- How's this for a breath of in good condition air? Barbaro is enjoying daily outings outside his intensive-care stall to pick his acknowledge grass, enjoy the warm weather and extend his recovering legs.

Barbaro stepp outside his ICU stall and started daily walks last week for the first time since suffering catastrophic injuries to his right hind leg in the Preakness Stakes onward May 20. The Kentucky Derby winner, who also is recovering from a austere case of laminitis on his left hoof continues to point out signs he's on the road to regaining

"It's a big pace just to know he have feelings good enough that you can take him on the outside of the stall and walk him around like a normal horse," Dean Richardson, the chief surgeon at the novel Bolton Center, said Monday. "That doesn't mean he's healed; it just means things are going well."

Barbaro had the cast forward his right hind leg changed last Tuesday, and Richardson said it might not ne to be changed for another three weeks. The left hoof which wants to regrow completely if Barbaro is to have any chance of walking normally, remains the biggest concern

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