It's a horse people!

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) -- Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro is making progress from surgery on his broken leg, even showing an interest in mares, but the colt still faces a long and perilous road to recovery, his surgeon said Monday.

Dr. Dean Richardson, who performed the intricate five-hour operation, was satisfied with the result, but blunt about the future for a horse that put together an unbeaten record until he broke down in the Preakness Stakes.

"There's some mares there, and he's extremely interested in the mares," Richardson told ABC's Good Morning America.

"We're salvaging him as a breeding animal."

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a couple thoughts about the above headline news item:

1. I have read and heard about this on CNN, the radio, local newspaper, USA Today, Sports Illustrated and countless other online news resources. This is BIG news for those of you intent on following frivolous details about gunfights in Gaza City, the senate immigration debate and civil war in the Sudan.

2. Provided he recovers from his injuries, Barbaro faces the pleasant prospect of humping unsuspecting mares multiple times a day in an effort to pass on his magic DNA. (Mark is trying to figure out how he can break his leg.)