Peter Core has spoken with Trot Insider after it was learned that Ontario Sires Stakes graduate B Cor Timgo 3,1:57f ($666,267) recently passed away.
Core, 57, trained the 39-time career winner for his partners, Raymond Core, Daniel Diebold and Don Allensen. After having retired from racing in the spring of 2005, B Cor Timgo lived out the rest of his days at Core’s Sarnia, Ont. farm.
Core explained to Trot Insider that the 20-year-old son of A Go Go Lauxmont enjoyed retirement and was most recently acting as a companion horse to a two-year-old in the paddock.
B Cor Timgo’s passing came as quite a surprise.
“We didn’t have an autopsy performed or anything, but we are guessing that he had a heart attack,” Core, who also trained and drove the bay, told Trot Insider. “He was fine the night before we found him and wasn’t showing any signs of ill health at all.”
The trotter was “good and fat and enjoying life” right up until the end, which made B Cor Timgo’s late November passing more sudden.
Core told Trot Insider that outside of a couple of short instances, B Cor Timgo had been at his trainer’s side in Sarnia for two decades.
“I knew he would be with me to the end,” Core said. “He’s a horse that gave us so much. He had a home with us for life."
Please join Standardbred Canada in offering condolences to the connections of B Cor Timgo.