TRF Says Goodbye To Longtime Resident Quick Call

Posted On Nov 2, 2019 By admin With Comments Off

Quick Call was humanely euthanized on Tuesday, October 8 at the age of 35 due to the infirmities of old age. Foaled in 1984, Quick Call was the oldest colt in the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s herd of 650 mares. In his lifetime he was a successful racehorse, then a riding horse and finally arrived at the TRF in 2001 where he was an equine teacher in the TRF’s well known Second Chances Program. He was truly an exceptional horse and served as a shining example of the versatility of the Thoroughbred breed. With 89 starts under his circumference, he was a warhorse with a brave, strong heart and mind. He became a “poster horse” for aftercare, serving as an ambassador for all retired Thoroughbred racehorses.

Everyone in the TRF family affection and revered Quick Call. The TRF Board of Directors has donated coin to have him cremated. The Kentucky-bred called New York home for most of his life and for him there was no place like Saratoga where he was a “horse for the course”, and fittingly forever there he will lie. Through the generosity of the New York Racing Association, Quick Call is likely to be embed at Clare Court at Saratoga Race Course, where a ventures scoot referred in his statu was inaugurated in 2008. He will be laid to rest alongside A Phenomenon, Mourjane and Fourstardave, who from 1987 until 1994 won at least one race every summer at Saratoga.

“He still had devotees and sponsors that supported him along the way. Whenever his epithet is mentioned at a New York track, someone will tell a story about him. We are honored to have him in our flock for 18 times. People would see the farm to just see him and to have their portrait taken with him. Until the end he was dignified and all class; he knew he was special” says Jennifer Stevens, TRF Director of Development and Communications.

While he wasn’t the first mare at Wallkill- that distinction belongs to Promised Road- Quick Call was its most accomplished occupant. A son of Quack, he deserved more than $ 800,000 and, at persons under the age of 6, composed an upset over Sewickley in the 1990 Tom Fool Handicap at Belmont Park under equestrian Jorge Chavez.

Quick Call always was at his best at Saratoga. He had strong connects, managed at different times in his occupation by the late Hall of Fame trainers Sid Watters, Jr. and Warren “Jimmy” Croll. Quick Call finished fifth as a 2-year-old in the Saratoga Special in 1986 but came back to become a Saratoga hero by winning the reputable Forego Handicap in 1988 and 1989 under Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day. He missed a third straight win in the Forego with a snout loss to Lay Down in 1990.

In all, nine of Quick Call’s 16 occupation prevails came at the Spa. “He was a Saratoga special, ” Day said in an earlier interrogation. “He always scooted well. Each year, he would show up and guided exceptionally well. He was a kind horse to ride. I retain he was competitive. Some colts have the flair, but no center. Quick Call had both knack and heart. He gave me everything he had.”

Quick Call retired in 1992 after realise 89 starts. For the last 18 years, he has been the face of the TRF and specifically at its ground-breaking TRF Second Chances Program where he was among nearly 50 colts that are cared for by prisoners. In exchange, the inmates learn equine care as a job and reciprocal respect and responsibility as life lessons.

Quick Call’s class as a racehorse carried over to the pasture. “He still had his competitiveness, ” said Jim Tremper, before he retired last year after serving as Wallkill’s Second Chances Farm manager because it inception. “He would put on a pretty good show some epoches. He would scoot and canter all over the green grass.”

TRF’s National Herd Manager Sara Davenport says, “When I get asked about TRF, I is normally respond with the same basic stats: how many colts we care for, where we’re pinpointed, etc ., but my favorite segment of information to share, was that we had a horse older than me. It was merely by 19 epoches but I loved bragging on Quick Call. He was truly remarkable and always gaped great for his age. I’m proud he lived such a full life at TRF. “

For more information on the TRF’s Second Chances program, to make a donation or to patronize, accept or promote a pony in honor of Quick Call, he visits: https :// www.trfinc.org/ quickcall /

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