KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. -- Barbaro's ri...

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. -- Barbaro's right hind bone are healing likewise well his cast could have been against by now, if not for the laminitis in his other hind leg Dr Dean Richardson said Tuesday that the painful hoof disease the Kentucky Derby winner has is preventing the cast from

being remov because the young horse could not protect himself on bearing more weight on the left hind.

"If he hadn't had the planter [laminitis] on his left hind, he'd probably be on the outside of the cast and he'd probably be in a splinted bandage forward the shoe," Richardson said. "I can't do that because his left hind is the more sore of the pair legs right now."

Barbaro's left hind hoof is improving and started to display slight signs of re-growing after 80 percent of it was remov He penurys to regrow the hoof if he is to have any ball of walking -- albeit with a hitch in his gait. Barbaro standed life-threatening injuries when he broke three bone around his right rear ankle at the start of the May 20 Preakness.

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