Sam-Son Farm’s 2000 Canadian Horse of the Year Quiet Resolve died on February 1 after suffering an injury after colic surgery.

The 12-year-old Affirmed gelding was trying to stand after emerging from anesthesia and had to be euthanized, according to a press release from owner-breeder Sam-Son Farms.

“Quiet Resolve was a courageous racehorse both on and off the track,” said Tammy Samuel-Balaz, president of Sam-Son Farm. “He was a sentimental favorite of the farm and a horse who always gave you 110% effort in everything he did. He loved to race and to win and will be deeply missed. He was one of a kind.”

Quiet Resolve, who is out of the stakes-winning No Louder mare Quiet Cleo, won ten of 31 starts and earned $2,346,768 from 1998-‘02.

His most significant victory came in the 1999 Atto Mile Stakes (G1) at Woodbine. He was voted Canada’s champion grass horse and Horse of the Year of 2000 after he finished second to Kalanisi (Ire) in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) at Churchill Downs. That performance followed a victory inthe Hong Kong Jockey Club Trophy Stakes (G2) at Woodbine and the Dixie Stakes (G2) at Pimlico Race Course.

Quiet Resolve was buried at Sam-Son.