Nobody Listens , who won the Turf Monster Stakes (G3T) Sept. 23, died the next day in a freak accident.
The 5-year-old gelded son of Conveyance was in his trailer near Columbus, Ohio, heading home from Parx Racing when noise from a braking semi-truck scared him, according to trainer Tim Eggleston. There was a loud bang as if the truck may have hit something. That sound spooked Nobody Listens, who slipped in his stall.
The trailer was driving through a construction area making it impossible to get off the road.
“He got kind of got upside down in the trailer and he got stuck around and then he severed an artery and bled out,” Eggleston said.
Matt Kwiatkowski, who co-owned the horse with Jason Kaylor and Roger Browning, broke the news Sunday on Facebook of Nobody Listens’ death.
Sign up for BloodHorse Daily
“The ride Nobody Listens took us on was the greatest one we have ever been on,” Kwiatkowski wrote. “Our hearts are broken as we share this tragic news. Thank you to all who supported and helped make him who he was.”
Just a day earlier, the Indiana-bred Nobody Listens won his first graded stakes by three lengths. It was his fourth straight with a career record of 14-7-1 in 26 starts. After the race, Browning said that the plan was to point Nobody Listens to the Nov. 4 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Santa Anita Park.
“We planned it out to avoid all the big boys for right now. And now we’re here, and we’re hoping to go to the Breeders’ Cup,” he said Saturday.
Nobody Listens, 5-1-1 from eight starts this year was just starting to hit his peak, making his death even more tragic.
“The horse was really healthy and fairly solid. That was his big thing,” Eggleston said. “I usually get a 5-year-old, they’ve got some aches and pains but not this horse. It’s like the older he got, the younger he felt and he just trained so well and he loved to train. … If you didn’t train him he wasn’t happy. He was a horse that didn’t want to just go jog, he wanted to gallop.”
Eggleston said Nobody Listens never had a bad day. Around the barn, the gelding was gentle and a pleasure to be around.
“Human, almost,” the trainer said.
Nobody Listens was bred by Southern Chase Farm and Karen and Greg Dodd. Nobody Listens was purchased by Kwiatkowski for $40,000 at the 2020 Ocala Breeders’ Sale Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.
Leave feedback about this