Barbaro's doctor: 'We all knew this day could come': Richardson overcome with grief after 8 months with star patient.

From: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) | Date: January 30, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Sandra McKee

Jan. 30--KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. -- Perhaps it isn't surprising that the person showing the most emotion yesterday after the death of Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was his surgeon, Dr. Dean Richardson, the man who spent every day of the past eight months tending to his care.

While Barbaro's owners, Roy and Gretchen Jackson, lost their voices to emotion once or twice during a news conference at the New Bolton Center, Richardson seemed overcome...

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