One lawsuit down, several to go:
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I wonder if theyāll ever see much of that settlement.
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That was my first thought as well.
I think what matters is that someone is drawing a line against trainers misusing their influence to cheat the people who rely on them. Glad they won. Iām sure they are not expecting any checks from Lamaze.
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Iām sure they know theyāll see nothing. Write off the loss.
Do people think that this court decision will have an effect on other sketchy horse pros who take advantage when buying & selling horses? Genuine question. I can recall some epic cases of chicanery being posted on COTH.
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One of my long-time trainers ā a Fellow of the British Horse Society ā told me once that āIn the horse business, all you have is your reputation.ā Guess that can work both ways.
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Sometimes I think that in the gossipy horse world, secrets are only secret to those who really need to know. Everyone else seems to have heard already.
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OMG so true & well stated! I need to write that down somewhere!
Maybe I can make a wall plaque that has that underneath my own conclusion that there are two kinds of people in the horse world, the best people you could ever meet, and the worst.
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I am so sorry that you experienced that shocking loss Renn. 
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Blaming the secretary? Thatās a new one.
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A long time ago an attorney I worked for missed a court filing date. His claim was that I failed to give him the mail that included the deadline. Donāt know if it worked, but I quit soon after. So blaming the secretary is not new.
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Oh indeed, blaming the clerk is as hackneyed as the dog ate my homework. But a new tactic for this desperate loser.
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Huh.
I still donāt see any confirmation of an actual brain cancer diagnosis from an actual doctor. I see Lamaze having made claims in court about a brain cancer diagnosis.
And in the Canadian case, the doctor from the Chirec Institute said they had ZERO record of him having ever been a patient.
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Iām so confused.
So his throat cancer is entirely separate from his brain cancer? Or did the brain cancerā which is in remission (?) ā spread to his throat? Then he had a laryngectomy yet heās apparently able to speak? And his bookkeeper wrote a not entirely untrue but certainly embellished letter about his various cancers and surgeries, behind his back?
Somehow I think heās going to lose this appeal.
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Eric claimed to have already had this throat surgery mid summer he said that the brain tumour had spread to his throat ( not possible) - he appeared in online court with a bandage around his neck and a white board claiming he couldnāt speak .
A few weeks after this he did all the interviews with Toronto star , horse and hound and his voice was miraculously back .
Interesting heās back on his chirec cancer institute nonesense when the doctors their have never heard of him or treated him. Proven in Canadian court.
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FFS. I donāt believe any of it. If he actually had throat cancer and was undergoing treatment which affected his ability to appear in court, he could have easily gotten letters from his treating physicians and not needed āhis secretaryā (wink wink) to forge letters in the wrong language from a doctor heās never seen claiming theyāre treating his āotherā cancer that heās now saying has been in remission for years.
He got caught in his own web of lies. Iām just amazed he made it as far as he did without being widely suspected, with as brazenly clueless as he seems to be about the actual realities of the medical conditions heās claimed to have.
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ā[T]here was some truth into this letter,ā he said. āItās not that the letter is completely untrue. Not at all.ā
It never ceases to amaze me that some people can be caught out at something very bad. But they seem to think that if they can just dial it back somewhat ā it was bad, but it was not as bad as originally stated ā itās as good as being exonerated. Itās all cleared up now, we can go ahead as if it didnāt happen.
More examples ā¦
He had surgery. It just wasnāt brain surgery, as he originally said. He has cancer. It just isnāt brain cancer, as he originally said. So I guess we shouldnāt nitpick, should we, the brain and the throat being geographically almost co-located, so pretty close to being the same thing, right?
Cheesman asked, āSo in 2023, when we had hearings in the court, and there was conversations about you having to do surgery, a brain surgery, that was not true, because it was already gone in 2021, right?ā
āYes, absolutely,ā Lamaze replied.
Lamaze said he does have throat cancer and underwent two surgeries over the summer to have his āvoice boxā removed. The voice box, or larynx, is located in the neck and contains the vocal cords.
And of course, Lamazeās attorney of many years, who has been a sympathetic and faithful friend as well, was finally forced to dump Lās sorry ass when he realized the degree to which heās been lied to and manipulated into unknowingly given false material to the court.
Kelsky added, āMr. Lamaze distinctly testified at the hearing that āI canāt even get an attorney at this point. Itās not a fair game.ā ā
Kelsky argued that because Coe withdrew from representing Lamaze ā¦ and he did so before Lamaze dialed into the hearing 20 minutes late, Lamaze was āfundamentally denied due process.ā
How does this even work??? No matter how terrible Lamazeās conduct has been, everything is everyoneās fault but Lamaze. I donāt know how he does it ā¦ I couldnāt hold up such chicanery for even 10 minutes.
Itās actually funny. But itās mind-blowing as well. 
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