A Final Farewell

[my miss storm cat]

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

~ Mother Teresa


I do this thread every year and I usually don't say much but want to explain something this time around. There have been times when people have taken this list and arranged it in alphabetical order. That's fine... do what you want. The reason I don't is simple... I believe most people begin to tune out halfway though.

The list is approximate order of when we lost these horses. The only exceptions are a single horse who died last year and who I couldn't get confirmation for for 6 months and that I placed the names of a few horses who have ties to DT members at the top of the list out of respect.

Please understand I am not saying they're more important. Anyone who reads / responds on the angels thread knows that a 5k claimer gets the same respect as a champion. More is written if it's a horse someone followed... it just happens that way.

I know I've left out some names. I cannot know them all, I do not seek them out... I post news when I notice which is, sadly, often. If I've heard a particular horse is gone (as is the case with quite a few)) I don't post the name until it's confirmed so I apologize for leaving several names off.

I did try to double check the angels thread and verify stuff but if I were to try to confirm every additional horse on every other places with no link, proof, etc... I put a lot of time into this because I want to but I just can't do any more. I would be sitting here for a month doing nothing but confirming stuff and it does get depressing.

So this is as complete a job as I can do. I try my best for the simple reason that they all deserve, if nothing else, to be mentioned, thought of, remembered one last time.

I usually begin with the same quote because I think it's one of the loveliest things ever written.

... And so, in loving memory of those who have left us with holes in our hearts, a final farewell.


* * *

When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

~ William Shakespeare


Meese Rocks
Brad's Kitten
Monroe
High Fly Amore
Gran Estreno
Red Clubs
Joe Lively
Lethal Gaze
Game to Run
Green Tune
Honeagle Lady
Polish Navy
Red Nickel
Bless Finesse
Natureofthebeast
Deacon's Farm
Dermey Bowler
Light Dragon
Karanja
Flighty Frances
Flashy Conquest
Mr. Livingston
Conquistador's Cat
Cam's Card Shark,
Genuwine,
Eden Burst
Fancy Card Shark
Feature Price
Rock n Rule
Lord Larsson
Peveril
South Bank
Valay Cat
Tifoso
Vodka Brook
Jade Hunter
Zrinksy
Omix D Or
Karma Check
Oflee Cool
Lady Starlet
My Dolly
Hasten to be King
Sweet Intoxication


When you are sorrowful look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth you are weeping
for that which has been your delight.

~Kahlil Gibran


Miesque
Wotsurpoison
Milty Way
Sunday Delight
A French Horse
FBW Kennedy
Battlefield
Bob Back
Darjin
Lucy Got Lucky
Dansimar
Stunning Ally
Forest Flower
Fenix
Marching Song
Glencove
Marina
Monty Trix
Sleeting Texas
Honor Ernesto
Lilmurry
On Vacation
Digamist
Najran
Ubiquitous
Pride of Dulcote
Star Player
Political Pendant
Nodforms Paula
Barbican
Arakti

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.

~Emily Dickinson


Giant Moon
Old Vic
Placerville
Silver Guest
Razeen
Marjac
Lawspeaker
Clear Mandate
Allibang
Gentleman Jeter
Luck of the Draw
Abey M' Boy
Belend
Winter Solstice
Groom is Red
Yankee Victor
Twisted Spur
Princess Charlie
Saw Perfection
California Blue
Hetch
Backspin
Nodforms Paula
High Lode
Square Face
AlMufti
Erics Charm
High Lode


He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Lieve
Magic Launch
Aurora
Redemsky
Sheila's Bond
Honeywantshermoney
Viscount Rossini
Karky Schulty
Sircharleswhatford
Law Society
Fort Hughes
Stormy Storyteller
Pecan Nut
Tricky's Legacy
Hetch
Princess Charlie
Two Cloudy
Blazing Empress
Chocolat
Monsieur
Sweden
Captain Kirkton
Jack the Soldier
Knockangow Leader
Freefourinternet
Mo Mon
Kilograeme
Lushg Life
Regal State
Brenin Cwmtudu,
Sir Gerry
Buona Sarah
Robbers Glen
Sea Rose
Medaaly
North of Eden

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

~William Penn


The Wicked North
Dancing Spree
Brenthurst
Killowenabbey
Roman Lady
Lil Ruth
Oatman
The Antogonist
Babilu
Meteore
Mocha Gold
Casa Boy
Comalagoild
Prince Soho
Inventor
Turf Legends
Kazadancoa
Karakorumknowitall
Silk Parasol
Dooneys Gate
Sultan Fontenaille

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hot Danish
Magnini
Paradise Creek
Glitterman
Harmony Lane
Regal Heights
Minella Four Star
Tokubetsu
Primal Force
Robello
Pegasus Lad
Win Is In
Furioza
Marlang
Sabaah
Gilded Gem
Sadlers Wells
Stormello
X Rated

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.

~ Washington Irving


Washington Irving
Honour's List
Arewenearlythere
Sakura Bakushin O
Cosmno Meadow
Juliet Capulet
Shine the Armor
Golden Game
Strate Off Thebloc
Brooke's Fantasy
Crazy Good
Devil May Care
Catch Bob
Inoubliable
May Be Possible
Questarabad
Drink Up
Destiny's Dream
Lady Vera
Just Post
Letthebighossroll
Wilderness Song
Nassau Gold
West by West
Saddle My Dream
Monkey's Moonbeam
Margot De Medici


Oh heart, if one should say to you
that the soul perishes like the body,
answer that the flower withers,
but the seed remains.

~Kahlil Gibran


Icelain Diva
Khalashan
Radiant Ring
No Finer
Sobea Star
Katalak
Tuilan
Thread
It's Personal
Cee's Song
Easy Ellis
Regal Enterance
Arcadian
Ring's Island
Gusting
Fort Stockton
Chimney Sweep
Ripples n' Waves
Shakenwithanolive
Hasper
Provost
Best Horse
Trodoos Jet
Feelings

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.

~John Moore


Birdbirdistheword
Kugiles
Wiley Witch
Lady Pacha
Two Punch
King's Theatre
Tiz Zoe
Just One Thing
Gothic Armageddon
Poppanan
Unbridled Jet
Ford of Wells
Midnight Blews
Walleyed
Magic Maid

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.

~Arabian Proverb


Midnight Mass
Day La Soul
Metra's Rouge
Brown Bess
Big City Life
Bajan Parks
Rewilding
Rockettes Escapade
Awad
Cozy Miss
Wee Ziggy
Captain John Nixon
Be Driven
Mr. Ramsay
Turn Up
A Stones Throw
Neillo
Deputy Broad
Zealous
Soviet Problem
Troy Tempest
Naseeb
Banker's Image
Doing Great
Rescue Plan
Port Ronan


Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

~William Shakespeare


Cedarberg
Artists Return
Ali's Lake
Kickin Off
Kensei
Horlicks
Kimmyv
Pedaltothemedal
Our Lady Gaga
King's Forest
Honorary Title
Oldmeldrum
Nijinsky's Leak
Deviant Sax
Burns
Central City
Lordgivemealift
Break the Glass
Cozzy Girl
Beautiful Pleasure

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

~Antonio Porchia


Alumni Hall
Really Good Whisky
Princess Jeremy
Winnfireandfaith
He’s a Hot Dancer
Shecancarryatune
Conquering
Proud Cardenal
Payout
Soid Fact
Falcon
Seelster
Royal Magesty
Rahy


My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament are merely shadows to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul.

~ William Shakespeare


Crystal Lily
Slip Anchor
Banned
Fleet Indian
Sajwah
Big Burrows
Bold Executive
Siberian Summer
Heidilicious
Mudville Nine
D'Accord
Ripalong Lad
Symboli Rudolf
Umatilla
Cengiz
Hey Dandy
Lady of Synone
Ashburton Lad
Dance on the Moon
Lion Tamer
Ace of Aces
Raspbery
Bernstein
Little Miss Porter


To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

~Thomas Campbell

Vengeance of Rain
Flowing Cape
Amun Re
Me and My Gals
Bideford Legend
K One Kitty
Hickstead
Epic Move
The Cockney Squire
Beechy's Beauty
Tighe Caster


Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.

~ Eskimo Legend


Jet Master
Delegated
Ocean of Peace
Chief Seattle
Galex
General Maximus
BZ Warrior
Ghost Gunner
Irrefutable
Brother Bob
Cloud Man
Waltzing with Blue
GHazi
Spangled Star
OUr Columbus
Sally's Idea
Windsor Knights
Zorro de la Vega
Fly By Phil
Shahrastani
Kingston Rule
JC's Pride


... as well as the unamed... victims of fire, slaughter, of abuse and neglect... those who no one knows about, were never reported.

Run in peace.


When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk:
he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it;
the basest horn of his hoof is more musical
than the pipe of Hermes.

~William Shakespeare


Please honor them in your own way... write something about one you were a fan of, won a wager on, lost a wager on... light a candle, watch a replay, say a prayer, share a story, make a donation in their name.... whatever you're comfortable with.

For anyone who can afford a donation at this festive time of year, in the spirit of giving...


http://www.tca.org/

http://www.excellerfund.org/

http://www.vet.upenn.edu/PennVet/New...9/Default.aspx

http://www.canterusa.org/

http://www.rerun.org/

http://www.thoroughbredadoption.com/

http://www.cerfhorses.org/help.html


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

~ Buddha


Please feel free to add any names, charities, anything you like.

I will bump this thread up one time on the last day of the year (or the first of next) and will add the names on other places that I have, by then, confirmed.


The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

~ Mahatma Gandhi