Man, I’ve got to stop replying and taking the bait.
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Awwwww, bless your 
you’re back for more!
No, LK did that all by herself!
And for those truly interested, MB/MH did NOT contact me prior to the shooting. They did contact several friends in NC other than HB.
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Lol you don’t have to dig far. I also don’t think they were “digging for dirt” I think they were getting familiar with exactly what they were dealing with on their property and in their lives.
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And did HB contact you as someone else who had a SM spat with LK? Weren’t they compiling a file?
The training/living relationship had been in place for over a year at that point. They were documenting stuff for the big files submitted to SS and USEF.
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Right there with you. Sometimes it’s a challenge, for sure. Lol.
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The Interrogation of Eggbutt will return after a word from our sponsors.
Hibbity Bibbity
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Your posts just get more and more ridiculous. Why do you do this? What perverse pleasure are you getting with your implications of nefarious deeds and motives? It’s like a disease that has you in its grip.
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OMG what a puritan you are. News flash, half of all marriages these days end in divorce. MHG’s divorce and subsequent custody arrangement isn’t unique or special. Lots of people are unsatisfied with their marriage for a lot of reasons. MHG also wouldn’t be the first adult athlete, Olympic or other, to be trained by a spouse or SO.
And I seem to recall, once MB actually found out about the drug use, because addicts are usually so upfront with their usage, he asked the addicts to leave. What exactly was it that RG said when asked if he had relapsed in FL? Wasn’t it that none of the staff ever caught him using on the property.
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Are you writing a book? 
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Ugh. If so, I didn’t catch that part.
Once again, I have my fingers crossed for the barn where they are now in Florida.
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That got in before the objection could be raised and the jury was instructed to stike it….the defense had to re-ask….RG fumbled around…and a version that finally got out was that he relapsed but all his usage was “off property”…
Remember, they were not staying on the FL farm. They had a trailer somewhere nearby.
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Nope. He said that he was not “using on the property”.
EXACTLY.
Something went slightly sideways in terms of the training relationship between MB and LK in the spring of 2019. Clearly the initial thought was that if LK anted to ride with him in NJ during the warm months… he would have preferred her finding her own to place to live for the 2019 season.
To me… it seems as though MB was trying to create a little “space” in terms of the trainer-client relationship at that point. The timing of the burst pipe, and fewer available housing accommodations on property? That was also factor.
But somehow, JK got involved in ?March 2019?, and MB was ‘persuaded’ to allow LK to live on property come April. And RG came along with LK. Because that is what RG does.
The key question I still have? How did that happen? What/who was involved in that conversation in March 2019? Something strikes me as off about this particular event. And obviously, it was all downhill from there in the string of subsequent interactions between key people during a 6 month span in 2019.
What seems clear is shortly after LK & RG moved into the top floor apartment of the NJ farmhouse in April 2019, and MB & MHG took over the main floor… tensions began to escalate between EVERYONE.
This wasn’t just a matter of tension between MHG and LK. C’mon now. LK wasn’t getting along well with JH either by that point. She wasn’t taking lessons seriously. And apparently RG was supposed to be working with Mike McGrain (another MB employee) in terms of tiling work - and RG wasn’t even showing up, and when he was, he wasn’t doing a great job. That was testified to during the trial.
By June… tensions were higher between multiple parties. By July, MB was clearly considering pushing LK and RG out. Hoping they would just decide to leave because it was clear the relationship between everyone had soured. But they didn’t. Sooooo, he started calling around to get more information about what might happen when he asked them to leave. Getting some background information on their prior history in NC. Because clearly, by that point, MB and MHG knew that it was not going to be a peaceful and professional termination of that particular client relationship.
To use the term “digging up dirt” to refer to calling down to NC to get an idea about prior history when LK left trainers/boarding barns?
That’s odd. It’s a pretty normal practice in the horse industry.
I can understand referring to the hiring of a PI as “digging up dirt.” But… my guess is MB wouldn’t have hired one of things had remained relatively normal in June/July, and if he hadn’t heard alarming things about what went down when LKs prior boarding and training relationships ended.
Frankly, I am mighty curious about how her prior boarding/training arrangements ended. People have alluded to messiness on these threads… but not spelled any of it out.
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That was one of YD’s favorite statements.
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Which is sort of why I used it. Certain posters are constantly doing it…so I joined in 
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Unlike now, when they’ve rented an apartment at the current barn. Yikes.
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I thought RGs testimony about not using on property referenced the time period in 2019 when he was living at Hawthorne Hill in NJ. I thought he admitted relapsing a few times then, but claimed it wasn’t on property.
And as far as the living and training relationship goes, it was a continuous year. Only the training side was continuous. LK and RG lived on property during summer of 2018, then were staying off property in Florida during the winter season, then wanted to resume living on property in NJ during spring & summer of 2019.
It’s clear MB initially resisted allowing them to stay on property in NJ again. But caved on that.
So it’s disingenuous to refer to their trainer-client relationship as some year long continuous living situation. It clearly wasn’t.
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Mkay.
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What is your actual problem or what are you trying to say? I don’t understand.
CH often uses that language so I “threw it” back at them.
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