Hennessy dead
 

Hennessy died today at Haras La Mission (Argentina), where he was shuttling for the southern hemisphere season.

The son of Storm Cat and Island Kitty, by Hawaii died suddenly, apparently, by heart attack.

Hennessy's top runners include: Silver Tree, Henny Hughes, Madcap Escapade, Johannesburg and many others.

RIP

It seems like an abnormally large amount of thoroughbred race horses die of a heart attack :( :( :(

Terrible

OMG, that is awful. RIP. :(

Wow....
 

Rip :(

Such a shame , Sorry to hear about this :(

Oh God..... stunned.

Run in peace forever.

oh no. still fairly young, wasn't he? shame they shuttle these guys, i still think it sucks.
money...always about the money.

Sad news but now he will be at peace. He won't be pushed by his owners to produce in 2 hemispheres every year.

That's awful about Hennessy.

"Heart attack" is sort of a catch-all term. Not really the "heart attack" as occurs in people. In horses most usually they have an arrthymia (irregular fatal heart rhythm), or dissecting aortic aneurysms are not uncommon. Both can cause a horse to drop suddenly without warning.

Did you fall off the apple truck or whatever the saying is?

What MALE in their right mind is being PUSHED to bang on a daily basis. These stallions live better then 50% of America

not only is it unnatural, but it's unhealthy for a horse to cover the amount of mares in a year that some of these stallions are made to cover. you can't equate male sexual drive in a human to what these stallions go thru.

There's plenty of stallions who want nothing to do with it towards the end of a busy season, Scavs, or if they are overbooked from the start. Not a rare problem at all. One of the biggest concerns in stallion management is keeping him happy and wanting to do his job.

Realize that some stallions cover 2 or 3 mares a day, seven days a week, from mid-February to mid-June. Then ship them to a new country, where summer is winter/spring, and ask them to repeat that - it's difficult.

Stallions used to cover 30-40 mares a season, then we got ultrasound (so we could breed within hours of ovulation to maximize fertilization rate, and they didn't have to wait to see if a mare came back in estrus and needed to return to the shed to try again), so that increased bookings; and then stallions became more "public" rather than tradeoffs between fellow horse breeders; so folks wanted money back on stallion investments and they started selling 60-70-110 shares in a stallion a year to recover the stallions inflated cost over a few years ....

Go to BloodHorse and look up the numbers of foals some stallions put on the ground every year.

I'm exhausted just thinking about it :D

amazing the impact bold ruler and northern dancer had on the breed, when you consider how incredibly small their books were--especially compared to this day and age. some cover over 200 mares--without shuttling. it's insane.

Well I apologize then, but still, I really don't see an issue in it. I don't doubt there is over breeding in our industry, but there is also OVER RACE TRACKS, meaning tracks that shouldn't be running and they should just make condo's out of the land.

yeah, but race tracks don't have to worry about keeling over from overwork.

What a shame. . . He was always an underrated sire. . .

I agree.

There's a pretty good book out there, " $tud ", about the stallion business. Very interesting, author visited different farms, from Overbrook/Storm Cat to a small backyard operation in California. I'd recommend it to anyone fairly interested in the "after race track" side of the horse business.