Four stallions killed in Peru - from TDN

[skydy]

@LaurieB

I’m not forgetting the watchman. Just indicating that he clearly wasn’t enough security under the circumstances. Unfortunately this is not the first shuttle stallion who’s been killed in Peru.

Fwiw, my husband travelled all over the world for business. When he was in SA, he travelled with guards, always. Not that all SA countries are the same, but different safety measures were taken on that continent than on the others.

The statement from Schwartzman used the words …"overcoming our employees and security guards" so apparently there was more than a watchman. How they were overcome for 11 hours I wonder, but it doesn’t change the outcome. https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/237654/raided-peruvian-stud-haras-barlovento-to-close

Whatever the motive, this is a tragedy for the farm and the stallion owners.

[findeight]

@Pronzini

That is why I am having a hard time believing that this is random. It was as though the act was designed to humiliate and destroy the ownership of this farm–and it did.

I don’t buy it was random for a heartbeat.

[skydy]

I don’t think anyone has said that it was “random” have they? If so, I missed it.

[Where_sMyWhite]

To me, felt like ‘staged’; ie, wanting it to appear random but not really. Too many strange coincidences.

[monalisa]

Corruption is ingrained in the culture in these countries. Unless you have been there and have experienced it it’s difficult to explain how bad it really is. If I were a stallion owner I would definitely reconsider any shuttle contract.