William Fox-Pitt’s five-star winner Seacookie TSF has been put to sleep elderly 25 after a stellar occupation – and nearly 10 years of glad retirement.
The Trakehner gelding, who received Pau and Blenheim, and got here 2d at Burghley and Kentucky, retired on the finish of the 2014 season, and loved the remainder of his days with proprietor Catherine Witt.
“It’s so unhappy to look him pass – however what reminiscences he left us with,” Catherine advised H&H.
Cookie have been produced through German Olympic rider Ingrid Klimke and William had observed and admired him at Boekelo, when Catherine was once having a look to shop for a horse for William to trip.
“That’s the way it began,” William advised H&H.
“He was once an actual athlete, who gave the impression of he discovered eventing really easy, so mild and indulgent. It was once like driving an elastic band. He had his little quirks; he was once relatively spooky and had his personal little evaluations – however really nice ones; he didn’t have an unpleasant bone in his frame. And he gave me some superb rides at five-star point.”
William and Cookie competed at Badminton in 2010 however didn’t whole for the reason that horse tied up. However they got here 2d at Burghley that yr, received Blenheim in 2012 and got here 2d at Kentucky in 2013, the yr in addition they received Pau.
“2nd at Burghley was once very candy, however with a little bit edge as we got here so shut, and he was once superb,” stated William. “He was once the sort of fighter; he’d by no means surrender. He perhaps wasn’t the most productive galloper and didn’t have the most productive stamina, however he was once up for the whole thing.
“And to were so shut such a lot of occasions, to in any case win Pau; it was once an enormous aid as he actually deserved it.”
William paid tribute to Ingrid’s manufacturing, including: “I feel I by no means relatively were given the most productive out of him at the flat; together with her he will have to were relatively a couple of % higher however he nonetheless were given beautiful just right marks with me, so goodness is aware of what he’d have executed together with her!
“He was once very particular and I’m very fortunate Catherine purchased him for me. We had just right a laugh, then he lived in luxurious together with her, Parklane Hawk and Bay My Hero, 3 five-star winners all out in combination.”
Catherine defined that Cookie was once her first horse with William, so he began the partnership Parklane Hawk and Bay My Hero later joined.
“Cookie by no means gave me an afternoon’s nervousness,” she stated. “I’m one of the fearful homeowners ever; I don’t actually experience it until the Wednesday after the development! However I didn’t have a priority with him; I thought in William. He was once an excellent horse
“He knew his task, by no means were given overexcited, he simply did the whole thing, and we have been very fortunate. Then he retired sound, and I had him for almost 10 years extra.”
Catherine stated Cookie was once an overly delicate horse to have round, with a cheeky aspect.
“The others almost definitely were given the entire blame for the rest that took place as it couldn’t were him!
“He didn’t seem like an match horse; he was once too beautiful, however he saved up with the entire others, and when he got here 2d at Burghley and Kentucky, we knew one day he was once going to have a win. William had 3 horses at Pau that yr nevertheless it was once Cookie who received, and it was once good.
“He was once gorgeous. I think very blessed to have had such just right horses, and blessed to have had him see you later.”
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