RIP Dancer

I woke up to a message nobody wants to receive. Dancer's little girl wrote to tell me that Dancer had been killed in a trailering accident. They were on their way back from a show, where he'd done very well. I had just seen  photos of him plastered in blue ribbons, and his little girl had recently friended me so I could get updates. She'd moved him to a friend's barn and Mike and I were talking about possibly going to visit him one day. Apparently he suffered a badly broken pelvis and had to be put down right there at the gas station. I am sick about it. He was so loved... by his breeders, by us, by his current owners. I cannot imagine the heartbreak, and I am pretty devastated myself. RIP, Dancer. You were everything a thoroughbred should be and more.