American Quarter Horse Journal, AQHA
Published 05/07/2012
- 4:36 p.m. CDT
TSW Can Can Vaquero and Stacy Westfall won the 2011 freestyle reining competition at the All American Quarter Horse Congress with "My Heart Will Go On" from the movie "Titanic." The gelding was euthanized May 7, 2012. (Journal photo)
AQHA Professional Horsewoman Stacy Westfall announced on her website the death of her talented bridleless reining horse TSW Can Can Vaquero.
“Vaquero” was euthanized May 7 after being treated at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, for neurologic symptoms. He was found to have a bony, arthritic growth sticking in the spinal column in his neck. Stacy said on her website that it was considered a growth defect, not something caused by an injury.
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