Who was Barbaro named after?

Question

An racehorse who died on Jan. 29 2007

Answer 1

It was named after the bloodhound in the picture on the Jackson's (owners of Barbaro) wall. They thought it would be a cool name for their horse!!

Answer 2

There was a famous explorer who was named Barbaro something, supposedly he always made good time on his explorations.  So I guess that was why he was named after this Barbaro person.  Not a bad name for a horse.  I will miss Barbaro and hopefully he feels pain no longer.

Answer 3

what ever he was named after is nothing like what comes to mind when I hear his name HEART as big as big  can be I felt like crying when I saw him pull up that awful day

Answer 4

He was named after a dog.

Answer 5

He was named after a fox hound just like his siblings and he is to have another full sibling in may

Answer 6

Barbaro means barbarian in Italian and other romance languages. Specifically, he was named after a foxhound named Barbaro in a painting the Jacksons own.

Barbaro's brother, Nicanor, was also named after a foxhound in the same painting. Nicanor was one of Alexander the Great's generals. The Jacksons have a great knack for naming their horses with cool historical names.

Bob

Answer 7

The owners of the horse have this very famous painting with a bunch of fox-hounds on it. Now each of the dogs have a name and the very first one on the right was named Barbaro. So they named him Barbaro.

Now Barbaro has a full baby brother also, now they also named him after a fox-hound in the painting and the dog they named it after is the one standing/sitting right next to the dog Barbaro was named after. And that name is Nicanor.

--melissa--

RIP Barbaro♥

Answer 8

A foxhound.