A PALL descended upon Canterbury yesterday as the racing industry mourned the loss of one of its true gentleman. Horseman Pat Quinn, 63, was taking boots off his sole runner for the day, Insensitive, when the mare jammed the trainer against a saddling-stall partition, reports Craig Young of the Sydney Morning Herald.His report adds: Four paramedic vehicles arrived, with reports Quinn was resuscitated before being placed on a stretcher and into an ambulance bound for St George Hospital. It is bel
A PALL descended upon Canterbury yesterday as the racing industry mourned the loss of one of its true gentleman. Horseman Pat Quinn, 63, was taking boots off his sole runner for the day, Insensitive, when the mare jammed the trainer against a saddling-stall partition, reports Craig Young of the Sydney Morning Herald.
His report adds: Four paramedic vehicles arrived, with reports Quinn was resuscitated before being placed on a stretcher and into an ambulance bound for St George Hospital. It is believed he suffered a heart attack in transit. Quinn's wife, Gail, also accompanied him to hospital.
Quinn, who started in the racing game more than four decades ago, was training out of Port Macquarie. The family man, who had left Sydney for the North Coast about a decade ago, had about a dozen thoroughbreds in work.
''He was a great horseman, a lovely family man,'' said Sydney Turf Club chairman Bill Picken, who has known Quinn for 45 years having lived alongside the trainer when preparing horses out of Rosehill. ''He loved his horses. I suppose he died doing what he wanted to do.''