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How the tragic death of a Champion Reining Horse has given a hopeless horse hope.
February 16, 2009 was like any other day for Leslie Sawyer. Her reining horse Rock (Hard Rock Siemon) had a minor injury to his eye and she was trying to decide if she should take him to the vet. She shared the issue with friends on a popular horse forum and everyone agreed. Take him to the vet and have them flush it.
She drove to the vet and wondered if his injury would cause issues at the upcoming Pinto World. At worst case, Sawyer thought, he would lose the eye.
She was wrong.
Sawyer drove home with an empty trailer and her beloved Rock was gone.
Rock had a reaction to a medication incorrectly administered and the horror unfolded in front of her. Within 20 minutes he was gone. Sawyer is comforted that she was with him but the hole in her heart was unimaginable. "You don't take your horse to the vet when they have never been sick and come back with an empty halter." explained Sawyer.
In her grief she tried to decide what to do in Rock's name. "He was a two time Pinto Reserve World Champion so I thought of donating a trophy but then decided no one would really get what he meant to me" said Sawyer. "Then I thought of giving a trophy at a local club but they always had issues with people giving it back after they had it a year so I decided I did not like that either."
She was not sure how to memorialize her multiple reserve world champion reiner. He was not a household name - but he was incredibly important to her and she wanted to do something meaningful to make sense of his meaningless death.
**UPDATE** AQHA Marketing Director Jennifer Hancock has issued the following statement to The Quarter Horse Quarterly, "We are investigating the altercation at the Reichert Cellebration and the issue with the coduct of the participants who are also AQHA members and this will be handled according to the rule book. The investigation into the incident is ongoing and we make it a policy of not making any comments until such time as suspension or other actions made by the AQHA will be announced."
Tulsa Police Department Spokesman Jason Willingham confirmed that the Tulsa Police Department was called out for a self described 'brawl between 30-40 participants.' When the police arrived none of the parties involved wished to pursue charges so no police reports were filed. TQHQ also confirmed no other incidents were called in during this horse show. We hope that by providing complete and factual reports we will clear up rumors and innuendos.
Calls to officials from the Reichert Celebration and NSBA have gone unanswered as of 8/18/09.
Read more: Fallout Continues from Reichert Celebration Incident
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