Say goodbye to Koffee · 30.08.10

This coming Labour Day, September 6, local favourite Krazy Koffee will be saluted in a special retirement ceremony. Owned by Butch Goertzen and trained by Cindy Krasner, “Koffee” enjoyed his best year in 2008 as a three-year-old, winning six races, including the B.C. Derby. Those six scores, plus a close second in the Premier’s Championship, were enough to earn Krazy Koffee Horse of the Year honours over top older horse Spaghetti Mouse.

He came back the following year with mixed success, the highlight being a score in the 2009 B.C. Cup Classic. As a confirmed closer, always subject to pace and traffic scenarios, Krazy Koffee was always at a disadvantage — but he almost always managed to get up for a share of the purse. This year saw him struggle with inconsistent form, and a maddening tendency to either drop back too far to be a factor or burn himself out in an early pace duel.

To their credit, Krazy Koffee’s human connections have seen the writing on the wall and are retiring him while his abilities are still respectable and his health is intact. To Hastings’ credit, the track is going to the effort of honouring him prior to the running of the Richmond Derby Trial, one of the races he won during his championship season. Enjoy your retitrement, “Koffee”!

Update (September 1): Nice write-up in the DRF by Randy Goulding provides more background. Krazy Koffee’s next career will be as a dressage horse.

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What do you think?

  1. Good When a horse says:No mas, not enough people listen. Same thing happened to two great females: Gallorette and Lady’s Secret, although in the latter case, it was preventable

    — Monarchos · Aug 31, 12:13 PM · #

  2. Big guy looked great and hope he finds dressage more to his liking.

    — humphrey · Sep 8, 12:45 PM · #

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