Rocknroll Hanover Passes -- Standardbred Canada

Trot Insider has learned that superstar sire Rocknroll Hanover was euthanized on Thursday at the age of 11.
Adam Bowden of Diamond Creek Farm, a significant shareholder in the stallion, told Trot Insider on Thursday afternoon that Rocknroll Hanover was euthanized after suffering irreparable complications from colic.

Bowden said that he received word from the Mid-Atlantic Vet Clinic that the stallion had to be euthanized during surgery.

Considered by driver Brian Sears as "the best equine athlete" he's ever sat behind, Rocknroll Hanover put together a record reading 15-5-5 in 26 starts during his career on track while banking $3,069,093. Among his wins were three million-dollar races, including the 2004 Metro Pace, where he made harness racing history as the first two-year-old to pace a mile sub-1:50, the 2005 North America Cup and 2005 Meadowlands Pace in a mark of 1:48.3. The world champion was named Canada's 2005 Three-Year-Old Pacing Colt of the Year and took Horse of the Year honours in the U.S. that season.

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