The USEF website says that the offices are closed until Jan. 2, 2018 so perhaps that has something to do with it not being up on the website yet.
The possibility Farmer raised of âcross contaminationâ via the former employee seems highly unlikely to me. Is the suggestion that the employee was snorting lines in the stall and just happened to drop some amount (enough to show up on a test) in the feed bucket? Equally ridiculous is the assertion that the horse was contaminated by a dirty stall (the idea that the drug was on shavings and somehow absorbed through the skin? Just absurd.
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How absurd.
My understanding is that cocaine only âtestsâ (at least in humans) for 24-48 hours.
The idea that this employee somehow left a traceable amount of drug in the stall and then the horse happened to have gotten into it 24-48 hours prior to being tested is absolutely unreasonable.
Everyone looks ridiculous in this story⊠Farmer for telling it and USEF for believing it.
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All I can think about this is that Russell would be devastated. He LOVED that horse. He did NOT love working for LCF, but it was a job he needed to pay the bills. God, first KF riding it, then that goof ball Holly Shepard, now this. Disgusting.
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I canât believe the things people do to their horses for a ribbon. Awful.
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I canât believe her attorney told her not to attend that hearing
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Have you ever met her? She would not help herself, just sayinââŠ
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One of her recent sales ads said something about a white Christmas:eek:
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Too old for that to be the reason. The October one is already up as are plenty of rulings through November of this year. It would have been up by now. If it had expired that might be a different case, but it hasnât. It is so discouraging to read through all of these hearings⊠I should have not started doing so.
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I just read that article and was going to start a thread in Off Course but figured there would be one here.
I am so disgusted. I just cannot believe how/why someone would give this to a horse (I mean, I understand the logistics from a cause-effect point of view, but have these people no morals?)! I seriously, literally, have a pit in my stomach.
And to use the excuse of âthe pervasive nature of cocaine in our societyâ and blaming a groom who worked there? How many times has that excuse been tried? The poor horses in their care. What disgusting excuses for human beings. Pox on them!
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ummmmmâŠthereâs actions waaaaay before that including a major suspension. Some predate the digitizing of the records.
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Not at all in their defense but understand itâs not about a ribbon, itâs about selling a horse for 120k instead of 40k and getting more young horses to develop and sell from that owner and others like them.
Its big business, not a hobby looking for a scrap of polyester.
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Pds, thanks for posting the official notice word for word.
Where are the Hearing Committe results on the USEF website now? In general, not just that one.
This is truly bizarre to me. Not people drugging horse in order to win ribbons and boost the sale price⊠sadly, that makes sense. But using COCAINE to do this?
How much Cocaine is needed to drug a horse in order to make them exhausted the next day so that they are quiet when showing?!? Iâd imagine A LOT. What does that cost?!? Iâm not knowledgeable about the current street value of coke, but probably a few hundred dollars⊠And if âBob, the cokehead groomâ really does have a raging habit⊠I would imagine he would be pilfering Dobbinsâ stash⊠not the other way around.
Isnât there a less expensive more humane way, involving zero drugs, of achieving the same end result? Perhaps paying âBobâ to just hand walk the horse around the show grounds all night?!?
I donât get this.
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Good Lord, who can keep track of all her and LG suspensions!
and what is sad is Kodachrome is a nice horse regardless of this extra âhelpâ.
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Thanks!!
Big business for what - to win a ribbon. At the end of the day they are paying for that scrap of satin.
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KF does a lot of Derbies. Those have prize money, too. Even with her suspension, sheâs at the top of the 2017 Lifetime Rider Money Earned list: https://www.ushja.org/awards/riderrecpoints.aspx?year=2017&zone=0§ion=2000&standType=USHJARR&limit=45000 (Hopefully that works for everyone. I donât think the USHJA stuff is members only the way USE is now, but my browser is set to auto-login, so apologies if it doesnât work.)
From all the news stories etc about drug use lately, I havenât heard much about cocaine in recent years. Obviously itâs still around, and illegal, but Iâd think if there were a âpervasiveâ drug a horse is likely to come in contact with now, cocaine would not be at the top of the list. Then again, I donât run in those circles, so maybe everyone in Ocala from owners to grooms is living in a blizzard of coke and itâs wafting in to the stalls.
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Look. We all know people donât show at the Lane Change Farm quality of horse level for the warm fuzzy feeling they get. They show for the ribbons, the points, the coolers, the trophies. Trainers do it for the commissions.
Neighbor Show Trainer just bought a lovely-looking âgreenâ horse from LCF for an amateur client. Trainer posted it on the business Facebook page. Is now âFacebook Friendâ with LCF so we can all see Kelly galloping around on all sorts of ponies and âgreenâ horses just waiting to be sold to trainers with clients with deep pocketsâŠwho want to win.
So, the trainers who shop at LCF clearly know of LCFâs reputation, history, and reason why they are currently vacationing from showing. And the trainers who shop have no problem taking a client to LCF to spend money on these sale horses. So its okay with the fellow trainers, its okay with their clients, no worries about any fines or suspensions, or coke-addicted grooms, etc. It is âbusiness as usualâ and always WILL be. Because the LCF horses win.
But would these clients willingly go to a car dealer who had coke-addicted mechanics, whose managers got busted for turning back odometers?
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