In one of the sadder stories from this year Rising Western Australian and Group 1 winning mare Elite Belle has passed away.
It’s believed the six-year-old mare, who amassed $1,409,300.00 from 10 wins in her 25 starts, suffered a heart attack on an aeroplane flight to the east coast of Australia.
Leading Sky expert Andrew Bensley broke the news on Twitter and said that owner Bob Peters is ‘in shock’ over the news.
“It only happens to the good ones,” Peters said.
Elite Belle was to be set for the Championships in Sydney for the autumn carnival after the impressive mare won both the Group 2 Cox Stakes and Group 1 Railway Stakes. The latter is Western Australia’s biggest race.
The mare had missed one year of racing due to sustaining an injury, but returned to the track to claim her maiden victory, a win in the Carbine Club Of Western Australian Stakes (1400m).
Elite Belle’s passing is a big loss for locally owned horses, and had the potential to win another Group 1.
We pass on our condolences to her connections.
Drew H
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I will remove it from my black book. I was in panic this morning when I went out to the paddock and was minus one horse. "you don't know what you've got till it's gone". Anyway, he came in a few minutes later.