Scoop Vessels
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Scoop Vessels
It's being reported on another website that Scoop Vessels has been killed in a plane crash en-route to fishing. Can anyone verify this? Do they have it confused with the plane accident in Alaska that killed Stevens?
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fastappy
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Wow, bad news indeed. He was a very influential Quarter Horseman as well as Thoroughbreds. With Millie Vessels having passed and now Scoop that is going to leave a big void in California horse racing. I hope Vessels continues to operate.
God bless him and his family.
God bless him and his family.
"He's by Damon Runyon out of a Don Rickles mare," Actor Jack Klugman
That's a terrible shame. My only experience with him personally was a very positive one. Years ago during the terrible San Diego fires, he opened up Vessels as a temporary shelter for large animals in the area. I was touched by his generosity and I wrote to the CTBA asking them to honor the horsemen who acted as such good neighbors in a crisis. I mentioned Scoop Vessels and a few others by name. The CTBA published my letter on its site and within a day, he called to thank me despite the fact that we had never done business and I am sure he had no idea who I was.
Too many good people dying too young.
Too many good people dying too young.
http://www.vesselsstallionfarm.com/history.html
A bit of history behind Vessels. Scoop was the third generation to operate and grown the farm. Let's hope his wife Bonnie can step up to the plate and keep it going like Millie did.
I remember reading in the AQHA Journal an article by him about the first time they'd ever moved horses by plane. He was in back with the walleyed horses. He was praying that they'd stay quite and composed cause he sure wasn't! It was an old shake, rattle and roll cargo plane they had converted. Nothing like the nice quite ones now. LOL
I remember when he opened his farm to the horses. He didn't turn anyone away, including their other animal's. According to the article on the web site, they took in 350 horses. What a compassinate human being!
A bit of history behind Vessels. Scoop was the third generation to operate and grown the farm. Let's hope his wife Bonnie can step up to the plate and keep it going like Millie did.
I remember reading in the AQHA Journal an article by him about the first time they'd ever moved horses by plane. He was in back with the walleyed horses. He was praying that they'd stay quite and composed cause he sure wasn't! It was an old shake, rattle and roll cargo plane they had converted. Nothing like the nice quite ones now. LOL
I remember when he opened his farm to the horses. He didn't turn anyone away, including their other animal's. According to the article on the web site, they took in 350 horses. What a compassinate human being!
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fastappy
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Back in the day, when I was into the Quarters they had the Vessels stallions right there at LARC where you enter the track on the horsemen's entrance. I always thought that was pretty cool, and loved to looking at the stallions.
I hope you're right and Bonnie keeps the operation going.
I hope you're right and Bonnie keeps the operation going.
"He's by Damon Runyon out of a Don Rickles mare," Actor Jack Klugman