Business As Usual

[caffeinated]

Today’s item from the Paulick Report:

http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/maggi-to-mike-‘please-get-out-of-racing’/

Letter from Maggi Moss to Mike Gill:

You want to stop being picked on? Then do something about it. Hire an outside vet to come to your farm and go through all your horses and tell you which ones are racing sound and healthy. Quit running some horses three and sometimes four times a month.

Quit trying to break records and take care of the horses you have. Publicly tell us where all your horses go when you are through with them or no longer have their conditions. Donate some of your winnings to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation or other worthy cause. Do something for the industry and save some horses in lieu of destroying them. Stop the perception that horses are a piece of property for you for your personal gain.

If you can’t do any of this, please just get out: you continue to hurt the industry, not help it.

[Pronzini]

Pretty interesting coming from Maggi Moss–and I am a fan since I think she plays the claiming game very, very well. But flash back a year or two ago and the same stuff was being said about her coming from the same quarters. It might have even been posted about on this forum.

Whether or not she has changed her MO, she has clearly taken the PR bull by the horns. Smart lady.

[Alagirl]

@AppJumpr08;4644699

With the number of horses who “vanish” from Gill’s barns ever year, I’d think I’d be pretty aware of horses going into retirement programs at Suffolk… but… I think Gill “takes care of his own problems” much of the time…

I’m so glad they did change the chart - I was confused as heck when I looked at it this morning!!

We are talking high numbers, somebody on COTH would know.

I suppose his ‘retirement’ farm is in Canada.

And FWIW, I prefer PP Kook-Aid over what MG is serving. :no:

[Laurierace]

This was years ago, long before it became illegal to sell horses to slaughter with fractures but proves a point anyway I think. This horse belong to Gill. He broke his knee in SIX places in a race at Pimlico. Why he didn’t put him down right there for free is beyond me. Instead he gave him to Horace Parker who threw him out in a field to STARVE for three months. I guess the idea was to see if he became sound over time so when he did not they send him to auction where he was purchased by a rescue volunteer for $90. He was horrily underweight, covered with sores and still unable to bear weight on his shattered knee. FYI I was able to get Horace Parker’s trainer’s license pulled for several years as a result of what he did to this horse so he did pay some price for his actions. His actions never would have happened if Gill did the humane thing and put the horse down on the track that fateful day.

[Little_Hound]

Laurierace, whatever happened to this poor horse? Is he still alive?

[Laurierace]

No his knee was broken in six places, he was euthanized as soon as the rescue got the results of his xrays.

[Stellaspeed]

Balantrae

I tried for a whole year to buy a mare named Balantrae from Anthony Adamo, I drove up to Ctown once a month to see him. I speak Spanish, and told the grooms at the barn I’d give them $50 if she were ever offered for sale . I told him sound, or unsound, he had a standing offer of $2,000 for the mare.
She disappeared. I would LOVE to know what happened to her.

[Dispatcher]

@caffeinated;4644711

Today’s item from the Paulick Report:

http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/maggi-to-mike-‘please-get-out-of-racing’/

Letter from Maggi Moss to Mike Gill:

I love that letter.

[Little_Hound]

Gill entry watch:

At Philadelphia Park

Friday - 2nd race, Flying Vee (Stewart Elliott named)

Sunday - 4th race, Bluefinger (Abel Mariano)
5th race, You’re Ready Now (Mariano)

Will be interesting to see whether Philly Park will continue to accept his entries now that this Penn controversy has made national headlines.

[Barnfairy]

Balantrae

@Stellaspeed;4644862

I tried for a whole year to buy a mare named Balantrae from Anthony Adamo, I drove up to Ctown once a month to see him. I speak Spanish, and told the grooms at the barn I’d give them $50 if she were ever offered for sale . I told him sound, or unsound, he had a standing offer of $2,000 for the mare.
She disappeared. I would LOVE to know what happened to her.

It would appear that Balantrae is/was in Louisiana. She has a 2007 colt by Kela named Kelamon, a 2008 colt by Storm Passage named B’s Storm Trooper, and an as yet unnamed 2009 foal by Proudest Romeo, all bred in LA by Steve Ingram.

[jennywho]

Great letter from Maggi Moss, it will probably fall on deaf ears, but she is an excellent asset to our sport.

[Stellaspeed]

Balantrae

THANK YOU !!! She is one lucky mare.

[MintHillFarm]

[QUOTE=foundationmare;4644675]
2Boys, I highly doubt any of his horses end up at “rescue” facilities. It is far more likely that they are moved wholesale to Canada. There is no possible way that the horses he has acquired that are no longer racing have found “good homes”. No.possible.way.[/QUOTE]

You for sure Foundationmare, would personally know how hard it is to find good homes for OTTBs that are done with their racing days.

The amount of time spent to find horses appreciative and safe places are hundreds of hours. There is no way Gill would put that effort into re-homing his horses that are done. It would be a full time job. Far easier for this despicable charecter to fill a trailer with them and send them north. For this alone he should be banned for life.

[DickHertz]

Here’s a novel ideal for Mr. Gill.

Go to godaddy.com and purchase a domain for $10

www.adoptagillhorse.com

Pay some IT kid $500 to set it up.

When a horse has to go you tell someone to put it on the website along with a retirement price.

Put a “click here” to adopt this horse

It’s not that tough, Michael, just use the same brain that got you out of your 1 bedroom apartment. However, that is the same brain that would prefer to send them to slaughter so I doubt you are capable of an idea so easy one of your horses could have thought of it.

[Laurierace]

PA has a rarely enforced yet still crystal clear “fit for sale” law. I know, I was with the group that was instrumental in getting the law in place. If we can PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that Gill sold one single horse in the state of PA for one single penny or more and that horse had a fracture that was documented via xray we can get him charged under that law. Once he is proven guilty of committing a crime his license will be revoked in PA and will then be revoked via TRPB throughout the country. This should be easy as hell to prove, we just need someone to cooperate ie a vet with xrays.

[Dispatcher]

@Laurierace;4645173

PA has a rarely enforced yet still crystal clear “fit for sale” law. I know, I was with the group that was instrumental in getting the law in place. If we can PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that Gill sold one single horse in the state of PA for one single penny or more and that horse had a fracture that was documented via xray we can get him charged under that law. Once he is proven guilty of committing a crime his license will be revoked in PA and will then be revoked via TRPB throughout the country. This should be easy as hell to prove, we just need someone to cooperate ie a vet with xrays.

If he sold the horse for slaughter, how can there be any way to prove it? He doesn’t take them to a sale. It sounds like he has a guy all his own who comes and picks them up when there enough for a full load.

Since he knows what he’s going to do to a horse, I doubt he keeps any x-rays of broken legs, knees or ankles. And since he doesn’t do much, if any, re-homing, where are you going to find the horses he may have sold?

I’m sure there are some folks who own a Gill horse but how would one prove a broken limb happened while owned by Gill.

I’m sure the slime has all his bases covererd, being a lawyer and all.

[Alagirl]

@DickHertz;4645138

Here’s a novel ideal for Mr. Gill.

Go to godaddy.com and purchase a domain for $10

www.adoptagillhorse.com

Pay some IT kid $500 to set it up.

When a horse has to go you tell someone to put it on the website along with a retirement price.

Put a “click here” to adopt this horse

It’s not that tough, Michael, just use the same brain that got you out of your 1 bedroom apartment. However, that is the same brain that would prefer to send them to slaughter so I doubt you are capable of an idea so easy one of your horses could have thought of it.

Well, then you have the ‘adopter’ coming back with incurable lame horses that might not even be pasture sound.

paper (electrode) trail he is avoiding.

[Glimmerglass]

So did Michael Gill actually post this reply [see #86] from the Ray Paulick thread having Maggie Moss’ open letter?

I’d assume that Ray would nix someone spoofing his name.

It sounds like Gill if only because (1) he says he’s just the owner, (2) he says again no positive tests have occurred and (3) he threatens to sue Paulick, Maggie Moss, and “others” with their remarks for liable [sic]

I want all you bloggers to pay attention because class is in session: Gillforte, Maggie Moss, Mr Clifton, Ray Paulick, pay particular attention. Have you all heard of liable? And antitrust? If you think I am kidding about suing you, you haven’t been paying attention. I have never made a threat and not followed through. I have a case in the Supreme Court right now. I am going to have horse racing as my business, and my hobby will be punishing each and every one of you pinheads, so happy blogging you have my attention.

[2boys]

[QUOTE=foundationmare;4644675]
2Boys, I highly doubt any of his horses end up at “rescue” facilities. It is far more likely that they are moved wholesale to Canada. There is no possible way that the horses he has acquired that are no longer racing have found “good homes”. No.possible.way.[/QUOTE]

I just know that when I adopted mine, he was at the rescue with a few others from Gill. I guess I thought that this was standard practice. That he left horses behind and rescues picked them up. My bad. I guess I (and my horse) got lucky.

[FalseImpression]

Are you sure he is a lawyer? A lawyer who can’t spell libel… makes me really doubt his qualifications and abilities… maybe they are as “good” as his trainer’s qualifications…