Barbaro Stakes July 15 at Delaware Park

Fans of Barbaro (FOBs) planning to attend this event should contact me right away if you have not already made arrangements. The actual schedule will come out about four to five days ahead of race day.

FOBs will be gathering in a tent in the Grove, where Barbaro's birthday celebration was held April 29. However, instead of being served a catered meal, we will be purchasing our BBQ through he food line.

It has been a peaceful last few days. No horses were slaughtered at Cavel in DeKalb since the judge refused last week to extend the temporary restraining order that allowed the plant to ignore the May law outlawing horse slaughter in that state for human consumption abroad.

It's important, however, not to rest on our laurels. Killer buyers are still purchasing horses at auction and trucking them to Canada and Mexico whenever the trip proves profitable. And Cavel's owners have stated they plan an appeal. Until a Federal law is passed to ban both the slaughter of horses for human consumption AND their transport for the same purpose, they will never be safe in this country.