Remembering Icarus

Icarus 2012 Rolex, photo by Danielle

This is the third and final EN tribute post to the three Pollard Eventing horses lost in the tragic May trailer accident.  We are happy to reports that one of the horses from the accident, Michael and Nathalie’s Schoensgreen Hanni, is happily on her way to Bromont.  Hanni will leave for Canada Sunday morning after a weekend layover at Will Coleman’s farm in Virginia.  Onto the Fly tributes:

From EN reader Danielle:

 

Since I was a little girl I have been a fan of Eventing…with age the passion is still burning. I have the utmost respect for the riders and horses that compete at the top level. Rolex has been something that me and my mother have gone to every year since I was a girl. In 2011 I saw Icarus in the warm up for dressage. I was blown away not only by his outward beauty but by his presence. I have a ton of pictures from his warm up. He and Michael seemed to move around the ring seamlessly. Icarus also just had that look, that personality that you wanted to know him, that he was something special.

I continued to follow his career and Pollard Eventing. I cheered for him this year at Rolex and was sad to see that he was pulled before Show Jumping. It was evident that this horse loved his job.
I work as a night shift supervisor at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital. The evening that we got Icarus in I was excited and heartbroken. After I got Icarus off the trailer I figured that Michael probably thought some crazy women was holding his horse as I kissed his muzzle and just kept petting his head and reassuring him that he was in the best place possible.
Again Icarus showed what heart he had. He was the perfect patient. When the news came that they were going to euthanize him I could hardly stand it. He was one of those horses that captured your heart in seconds. He was amazing at what he did and still had so much more to give.
I am still trying to process the whole thing, he was truly an amazing horse that will not be forgotten.
RIP Icarus,
Love – Danielle
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Pam Eckelbarger of HoofPix photography has a lovely slideshow of Icarus and Jude’s Law on the main page of her site.  Click to visit: http://hoofpix.zenfolio.com/
Laura Himes sent us a link to a YouTube tribute video for the three horses.
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Icarus, photo by Kristen Janicki

 

Icarus 2011 Rolex warmup, photo by Danielle

 

Icarus 2011 Rolex, photo by Danielle

 

Rolex 2012, photo by Andrea Arrandale Daguanno

 

Photo by Andrea Arrandale Daguanno

 

Rolex 2011, photo by Kristen Janicki

 

Photo by Kristen Janicki

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