Additional Barbaro Breyer Models to Benefit Laminitis Fund
Breyer Animal Creations announced Friday, March 2, that due to demand, it will produce more portrait models of Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner who died earlier this year.
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Breyer Animal Creations announced Friday, March 2, that due to demand, it will produce more portrait models of Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner who died earlier this year.
“We have received so many calls, emails and letters from children and adults alike asking us to create more Barbaro models,” said Anthony Fleischmann, president of Reeves International, Inc., Breyer’s parent company.
The company is donating $10 from the sale of each model to the new Laminitis Fund at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, started by Barbaro’s owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson.
Barbaro, who was injured in the Preakness Stakes, was euthanatized Jan. 29 because of complications from laminitis
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