Business As Usual

[SwtVixen]

From the blog of Dick Hertz

First Assistant to Ed Marsico, Fran Chardo, has confirmed to the Patriot News that more charges are forthcoming in the investigation at Penn National. Chardo, who has an impeccable conviction rate, said the investigation is not over by a longshot. There is growing speculation that future charges may expand beyond the charges Delahoussaye faces. Sources close to the situation believe that future charges could expand to racketeering and wire fraud for other indivduals who may have laundered money and conducted an illegal gambling ring. There is also an alleged investigation underway exploring betting patterns for several races in 2009 as well as set up races involving short fields. A case of hidden ownership involving a jockey agent has also been alleged

[SwtVixen]

[QUOTE=alspharmd;5007421]
My personal issue with the retirement program is the person in charge who doesn’t seem to have a good history with retiring horses, such as “misplacing” them and “forgetting” where they were sent and providing many false answers when she’s called out on the matter.

Amanda Smith

            Rest easy Amanda, Dick Hertz is on the committee for this new rescue......... nothing will go wrong under his watchful eye.

[SwtVixen]

Fresh off the Press

Owner, Henry Witt, has been escorted off the grounds of Penn National by the Pa State Police for having syringes in his possession.

  His horses have been scratched last night and tonight.

The Paulick Report verifies
http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/tag/michael-gill/

[jenm]

[QUOTE=SwtVixen;5007931]
Owner, Henry Witt, has been escorted off the grounds of Penn National by the Pa State Police for having syringes in his possession.

  His horses have been scratched last night and tonight.[/QUOTE]

Wow. :eek:

[pony4me]

A quick Google search of “petting zoo ohio” yields a lot of results, but none of them mentioned having OTTBs. But maybe I missed something. Ya never know.

[judybigredpony]

[QUOTE=Dahoss;5007462]
No, he just has others do the dirty work for him. Trust me, Gill is in complete control of his ship and anything that goes on there. He is not some innocent guy unaware of what is happening. The trainers he hires are just puppets doing his bidding. Of course, you have to have degenerate scumbags willing to sink to that level.[/QUOTE]

Not limited to his veterinarians…

[furlong47]

@pony4me;5008191

A quick Google search of “petting zoo ohio” yields a lot of results, but none of them mentioned having OTTBs. But maybe I missed something. Ya never know.

The petting zoo thing came from the Associated Press interpretation of the Grand Jury findings. Many newspapers just publish the AP article verbatim without doing any independent verification :no:

http://www.dauphinc.org/grandjury/Presentment%203%20-%20Sixth%20Grand%20Jury.pdf

On the last page it says he “even told Beattie she could go and see the horses at the facility in Ohio which he represented to be like a petting zoo for horses”

I think that part just ended up a little like a game of whisper-down-the-lane where no one quite knows what they are talking about. Not unusual where the AP is involved. :lol:

[BeverlyAStrauss]

The situation with Rocky Blue referenced by Third Glance on TB Champions was explained on this very thread as well, on 5/24/10 (Bottom of pg 57, post #1136)…and no, he is still not safe…

Free Dick Hertz!

[Las_Olas]

[QUOTE=BeverlyAStrauss;5008598]
The situation with Rocky Blue referenced by Third Glance on TB Champions was explained on this very thread as well, on 5/24/10 (Bottom of pg 57, post #1136)…and no, he is still not safe…

Free Dick Hertz![/QUOTE]

I see he finished last the other day. Bev, why don’t they just claim him for the 4k? I would think they’d be in a financial situation to do so? It’s interesting that SB would lie to her. It’s not like they’re a small outfit, there’s some clout and a lot of credibility with that group.

[BeverlyAStrauss]

That is not my decision to make unfortunately- I have reminded them constantly to stay on top of the current “trainer” and never take anyone’s word…

[vandian]

committee

[QUOTE=SwtVixen;5007518]

[QUOTE=alspharmd;5007421]My personal issue with the retirement program is the person in charge who doesn’t seem to have a good history with retiring horses, such as “misplacing” them and “forgetting” where they were sent and providing many false answers when she’s called out on the matter.

Amanda Smith

            Rest easy Amanda, Dick Hertz is on the committee for this new rescue......... nothing will go wrong under his watchful eye.[/QUOTE]

Better yet I’m on the damn committee. But all I’ve heard is that Steph is bowing out. I guess she can’t make meetings from prison.

[bamboozler]

Looking at all the information posted here about SB horses that no one seems to know where they are, has made me wonder. SB has been known to also tell people that she gives horses to a 4H lady. This came to me via a pony girl at penn National. There is a rescue group known as AC4H, operating in Pensylvania, very close to new Holland. Also, the director of this rescue, Christy Sheidy has a very open and public history of soliciting funds on the internet to bail horses out of a known KB lot in Jonestown pa. Not too far from penn national. There are many people who don’t entirely trust AC4H, as she openly admits that Brian Moore, the KB picks and chooses which horses she can raise money for to keep him from shippingthem to Canada. Sheidy has openly admitted that Moore more often than not will not let her bail out the OTTB’s to protect the trainers that send their horses to him. It would be interesting to know if SB has used this rescue to funnel horses to slaughter.

[onthehill]

Oh for God’s sake - I donated some money to them (not much - but still). Yikes.

[judybigredpony]

An AC4H has been know to call trainers and tell them their horses are in the KB pen and she needa X$$ to bail them out or she will call the stewards…never mind that the horse has been off the track for 5+ years under the orginal owners care.
Oh and there are more stories like that. From other trainers at other tracks.
But I know if I poke a stick I will get a manure pile from her loyal pals.

[caffeinated]

Honestly I think that’s a huuuuge reach, if not downright ridiculous. I would think it much more likely that horses are being sold to a dealer with the ‘4H’ thing as a cover, and the fact that ‘4H’ is in the rescue’s name is probably a coincidence.

[Laurierace]

[QUOTE=bamboozler;5010528]
Looking at all the information posted here about SB horses that no one seems to know where they are, has made me wonder. SB has been known to also tell people that she gives horses to a 4H lady. This came to me via a pony girl at penn National. There is a rescue group known as AC4H, operating in Pensylvania, very close to new Holland. Also, the director of this rescue, Christy Sheidy has a very open and public history of soliciting funds on the internet to bail horses out of a known KB lot in Jonestown pa. Not too far from penn national. There are many people who don’t entirely trust AC4H, as she openly admits that Brian Moore, the KB picks and chooses which horses she can raise money for to keep him from shippingthem to Canada. Sheidy has openly admitted that Moore more often than not will not let her bail out the OTTB’s to protect the trainers that send their horses to him. It would be interesting to know if SB has used this rescue to funnel horses to slaughter.[/QUOTE]

How exactly is not being allowed to purchase TBs from the meat man in any way funneling a horse through AC4H? By definition wouldn’t that mean the rescue is not involved in any way? That is no more funneling them through the rescue that it is funneling them through you or I. Maybe its our fault they went to kill.

[Laurierace]

[QUOTE=caffeinated;5010664]
Honestly I think that’s a huuuuge reach, if not downright ridiculous. I would think it much more likely that horses are being sold to a dealer with the ‘4H’ thing as a cover, and the fact that ‘4H’ is in the rescue’s name is probably a coincidence.[/QUOTE]

Well heck the same letters in the name is some pretty damning evidence. Insert sarcasm here.

[Acertainsmile]

I wonder if SB will have to produce actual NAMES of who she sent her horses to…that would surely clear things up (more sarcasm).

[MoJo]

[QUOTE=bamboozler;5010528]
Looking at all the information posted here about SB horses that no one seems to know where they are, has made me wonder. SB has been known to also tell people that she gives horses to a 4H lady. This came to me via a pony girl at penn National. There is a rescue group known as AC4H, operating in Pensylvania, very close to new Holland. Also, the director of this rescue, Christy Sheidy has a very open and public history of soliciting funds on the internet to bail horses out of a known KB lot in Jonestown pa. Not too far from penn national. There are many people who don’t entirely trust AC4H, as she openly admits that Brian Moore, the KB picks and chooses which horses she can raise money for to keep him from shippingthem to Canada. Sheidy has openly admitted that Moore more often than not will not let her bail out the OTTB’s to protect the trainers that send their horses to him. It would be interesting to know if SB has used this rescue to funnel horses to slaughter.[/QUOTE]

Why would SB go through a rescue to funnel horses to slaughter when she can funnel them directly through the local kb? Think about it. The only reason would be to enable her to say, ‘oh, I re-homed my tbs through a rescue, they’re safe’. She’s never claimed that, even with all this heat on. Don’t you think that if she had a good excuse she would use it?

Nice job, though. By broadcasting your rudimentary thought processes on a well-read, national bulletin board (especially on a thread that so many are attending to) you’ve managed to throw some doubt on someone who probably is innocent, and who actually has helped a lot of tbs (it’s not the rescue’s fault that the meat man is secretive) get off the lot. Hopefully the majority of readers will read your post and realize that it makes no logical sense.

[MoJo]

[QUOTE=judybigredpony;5010661]
An AC4H has been know to call trainers and tell them their horses are in the KB pen and she needa X$$ to bail them out or she will call the stewards…never mind that the horse has been off the track for 5+ years under the orginal owners care.
Oh and there are more stories like that. From other trainers at other tracks.
But I know if I poke a stick I will get a manure pile from her loyal pals.[/QUOTE]

Actually, that might give a lot of people the wrong impression as to why past connections are contacted. I’m friends with one of the women who has made calls to previous trainers, owners and breeders on the horses’ behalf. Many past connections are relieved when they get the phone call and grateful to do whatever to help the horse to safety. Do you think that Dick Hertz would have been grateful to receive a call from a volunteer that his wife’s horse had been found?

At any rate, I don’t think she would appreciate reading an accusation that boils down to her threatening someone in order to get money, in such a ridiculous way.