Hello, I just joined this forum, although I’ve lurked for quite some time. I post as second_glance over at TBC, and I tracked Gill’s horses from Dec. 1, 2008 through Dec. 31, 2009. The lists posted at TBC come from my data. Here’s a sort of current summary that I also just posted at TBC. (I’m definitely human and subject to error, but if any of the numbers are off, it’s not by very much.)
For those concerned about Gill’s horses, here’s where things stand as of 2/6/10.
Of the 461 horses who ran for Gill between 12/1/08 and 12/31/09 (by my accounting and tracking):
4 horses were claimed away in Dec. 2008;
127 horses were claimed away in 2009 (others were claimed away but he claimed them back);
8 horses have been claimed away so far in 2010;
22 horses either (a) broke down fatally in their last race or (b) were injured, their fate is unknown, and they haven’t raced since;
2 horses Gill claimed broke down in the race in which he claimed them (one euthanized on track, the other presumed dead);
3 horses are known (by me) to have been rescued during 2009;
68* horses have (a) been traced to new owners (presumably sold cheap or given away), (b) sold to stud (2), © shown up on online auction sites, (d) been retrieved by former connections (2 of those died shortly after), or (e) been listed on CANTER (by someone other than Gill, Adamo, or Delahoussaye); and
108 horses ran or worked between 12/1/09 and 2/6/10, or are entered in races in Feb [NB: 2 of these were eased in their last race]. Many of these are among his better horses and are probably being sold for racing. Some may have been sold as broodmares. But some may have gone, um, elsewhere.
This leaves approximately 119 horses who ran between 12/1/08 and 11/30/09 that are currently unaccounted for.
*This number includes the named horses sold by Gill for $1 each to Mark Wedig (as reported by Paulick) and the 6 that someone posting under the name Trainer on the Paulick site said had been rehomed. I’m pretty sure I know who Trainer is, and the horses probably were rehomed. Wedig almost certainly has/had more of Gill’s $1 bargains, but there’s no way at the moment to know which ones.
I do have a lead on 2 horses given away by one of Adamo’s assistants at PHA last year, but do not have the horses’ names. The people who took the horses seem totally legit and I hope to have the horses’ names sometime fairly soon.
I’ll add here that of those 108 mentioned above, 11 ran or worked in December and haven’t been heard from since.
Also, I think someone on this thread recently referred to Delahoussaye’s alleged use of an electric prodder on a horse at Beulah in 1998. Just thought I’d mention that as far as the law is concerned now, there’s nothing alleged about it. The Ohio Court of Appeals upheld his suspension in 2004 and specifically accepted the factual findings from the hearings:
Summary of Opinion
Plaintiff Delahoussaye is a licensed race horse owner and trainer, whose license was suspended for possession and use of an electrical speed enhancement device on a horse. In this opinion, the Court of Appeals upholds the suspension. A veterinarian witnessed administration of an electrical shock during training and the plaintiff was found with the instrument in his possession.
http://http://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/cases/racing/delahoussaye.htm
