Ballincoola, the four-star event horse with whom William Fox-Pitt won the Burghley Horse Trials in 2005, died of a heart attack on Sept. 22. The 16-year-old was warming up at a British show jumping competition when he collapsed. He was being ridden by Fergus Payne, whose father, Michael and grandmother, Judy Skinner, have owned Ballincoola since 2002. The Irish-bred, who placed third at Badminton in 2008 and finished fourth at Kentucky in 2004, has been buried on the Payne family farm.
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