Canadian Horse of the Year Quiet Resolve Dead  Quiet Resolve, a
Canadian Horse of the Year, was euthanized Feb. 1 at Guelph
University east of Toronto. The 12-year-old gelding suffered an
irreparable injury while trying to stand following anesthesia
for colic surgery.  The third-richest earner sired by Affirmed,
Quiet Resolve made all but his first start, in which he finished
unplace, on grass. He won or placed in 20 of 31 races and earned
$2,346,768 while trained by Mark Frostad.  Quiet Resolve raced
as a homebred for Ernie Samuel in the name of his Sam-Son Farm
prior to Samuel's death in May of 2000. Quiet Resolve was voted
2000 Horse of the Year and champion grass male.  During his
championship season, Quiet Resolve ventured south of the border
on occasion and won the Dixie Stakes (gr. IIT) at Pimlico and
was second in the Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT) at Churchill Downs
and third in the Shadwell Keeneland Turf Mile Stakes (gr. IIT).
In Canada that year, he won the Hong Kong Jockey Club Trophy
Stakes (Can-II