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Bar shoe

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(Far.) a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury.

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After winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Florida Derby and Blue Grass Stakes, Unbridled's Song pushed a fast pace in Kentucky but finished fifth, running with a protective bar shoe on his injured left hoof.
His handlers said Tuesday that the Kentucky Derby favorite, who finished a valiant fifth at Churchill Downs despite wearing a protective bar shoe on his left hoof, will skip Saturday's Preakness and the June 8 Belmont Stakes.
But Ryerson said the Florida Derby and Wood Memorial winner couldn't have raced here safely without a bar shoe holding his cracked hoof together.
 
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