Mornington trainer John McArdle kept a sense of perspective despite the loss of talented colt Doubt I'm Dreaming at trackwork on Tuesday.
The rising three-year-old, valued at almost $3m, died suddenly on Tuesday morning but McArdle was keen to remind well-wishers of the tragedy that unfolded at Bendigo when trackrider Donna Philpot, the wife of trainer Gus Philpot, died after a fall in a jumpout.
McArdle was thankful his staff members were uninjured in a series of tweets acknowledging Doubt I'm Dreaming's passing.
Thanks Kev it has been but fortunately in our case everyone went home safe our thoughts with the Philpot family a true tragedy https://t.co/1Ax19V7EXt
— Redgum Racing (@RedgumRacing) June 27, 2017
Thanks Mark but in the light of what has happened today I think we have got off light at least we all came home https://t.co/MPmw3isO8o
— Redgum Racing (@RedgumRacing) June 27, 2017
Doubt I'm Dreaming had two starts for a brilliant win at Moonee Valley on debut in the Listed St Albans Stakes and a third to Kobayashi in the Listed Redoute's Choice Stakes (1200m) in the autumn.
Doubt I'm Dreaming's Moonee Valley win convinced the China Horse Club and Newgate Farm to purchase a significant share in the son of Not A Single Doubt which valued the colt at almost $3m.
"I think he's the best horse I've trained," McArdle told RSN927.
"Hollow Bullet was a multiple Group One winner, but this horse could do things that even she couldn't.
"He went out onto the track as he does every day with his normal track rider, Daniel Schmitt.
"He was working around the track, no problems at all. I actually looked away to see if one of my other horses was coming off the trotting ring to have a gallop, and I looked back and he wasn't where he should have been.
"I looked further back down the track and he'd stopped. I thought he must have hurt himself so I ran down there. By the time I got there he had collapsed and died."
