Jacqueline Brooks First Grand Prix Horse Finnegan Passed Away Thu, 02/04/2021 - 11:05
Canada
Canadian Olympian Jaqueline Brooks said goodbye to her first Grand Prix horse, Finnegan. He would turn 33 in spring.
Finnegan was a 1988 born Oldenburg gelding by Almeo out of Annelie (by Admiral I - Magister/T). He was bred by Josef Greten in Molberg, Germany.
Gift for Diploma
Finnegan came into Brooks life as a gift for achieving her diploma at the University of Western Ontario in 1990. Her parents, Eric and Mary Brooks, bought Finnegan as a rising 3-year old in Germany in 1991. I was a working student with Ashley Holzer and saw Finnegan on a video at a dinner party at Tim Dutta’s when I was 23, Brooks told Eurodressage.