Trot Insider has learned that prominent Maritime stallion Western Paradise has passed away at 25.
"He was like one of those horses I'd let out in the morning and at nighttime I whistle and he’d be galloping to you and go back in the stall,” said Tony Zuethoff, who owned the stallion and stood him at his Pictonian Farm in Pictou, N.S. “He was like a big pet.”
Western Paradise (Western Hanover - No Paradise) raced 84 times from 1999 through 2003 and won on 19 occasions. The Brittany Farms-bred stallion began his career at The Red Mile and raced up and down both coasts, eventually stepping into open stakes company as a four-year-old. He won a preliminary for the Presidential Series at The Meadowlands in 2002 and finished second in a dead-heat in the $300,000 Graduate Series while racing against and defeating a string of millionaires the likes of Rair Earth, Armbro Positive, Armbro Proposal, Intrepid Seelster and Color Me Best.