I have not yet gotten my book in
the mail so I’ll talk about the research process for my memory paper. The topic
is the barbaro accident that happened in 2006 in the Preakness race. There are
3 different races most people are familiar with the Kentucky derby but there is
also the Belmont and Preakness all three add up to the triple crown, when a
horse wins the triple crown it’s a big deal. There have only been a handful of
horses to win it and the last one was back in the 80’s. I was excited to find
that I was rough on the details so I actually had research to do when I started
the process. The year was fuzzy in my head I wasn’t sure if it was 2008 or 2006
but as I researched some old magazine articles and online sport websites they
went into a lot of depth about this horse. He was an American hero in 2006 and
everyone seemed to love this horse. When
he fell in that race everything stood still and it was a race against time to
get the horse into the hospital and fix his leg. Barbaro had broken his right
rear ankle a similar break that had put down the racing filly Ruffian and ended
her career. The research for this paper probably will not be very difficult but
at the same time it will be hard to diversify my sources from online and
newspaper articles. When the accident actually happened this horse was on the
front cover of every newspaper in America and he has many books written about
him so I’m quite certain that later I read the pages in the book we were
assigned I’ll have a better idea of how to research correctly.
