Sprint champion Big Drama euthanized

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. –The 2010 sprint champion Big Drama was euthanized at the age of 15 last Friday due to complications from a stomach issue, said his trainer, David Fawkes.

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The Florida-bred Big Drama capped his championship season with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. A homebred son of Montbrook owned by Harold Queen, Big Drama also captured the Grade 2 Smile Sprint over his home base at Calder Race Course and finished second in both the Grade 1 Vanderbilt and Grade 1 Forego earlier the same season.

Overall, Big Drama won 11 of 19 outings with earnings in excess of $2.7 million.

“Obviously, he’s the best horse I ever had,” said Fawkes, who also trained Big Drama’s baby sister Sheer Drama, a three-time Grade 1 winner. “He was easy to train, a sweetheart to be around. Big Drama was sort of my coming-out party. He helped put me on the map, so to speak – he and his sister Sheer Drama. Mr. Queen has always been as good an owner as you could want. He did a great job breaking him on the farm, he looked fabulous when he first came to me, and he always let me do what I thought was the right thing to do by the horse.”