Good bye old man,

Another death in the Canadian show jumping world. Beth Underhill's famous horse Monopoly died today.

Unlike Hickstead Monopoly was a horse who had a full and complete life (born in 1979), and had a chance to enjoy retirement and being the 'top' horse as his years stretched on. It was at this point in his life that I got to meet him in 2003. For about a month and a half I lived over top of Beth's stable as a home base while grooming horses in Ont. Monop was the king of the barn. He had a huge 14x14 box stall in the middle of the barn where he could see everything, he was turned out first in the best paddock, and got the benifit of having his stall door open every night (with only a chain across his door) so that he could keep an eye on everything. It was this habbit that had me interacting with him at 3 am. Every night when he ran out of night check hay he would get board and start playing with things. Usualy by 3 am it ended up in him slamming his sliding door back and forth to make noise, which usualy resulted in him getting more hay so that we tired grooms could have another 2 hours of sleep.

Good bye old man, you had a good run.

http://equinecanada.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1322%3Aequine-canada-extends-condolences-on-the-passing-of-monopoly&catid=190&Itemid=413&lang=en