According to USEF, the horse was shown 9 times between March and November of 2017. In Kentucky and Ohio, all multi day/multiple classes big shows. No small endeavor, basically their whole season.
“If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” -J. Paul Getty
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I knew a Barn owner who had to jump through the legal hoops to arrange for a horse to be auctioned to pay for lack of board payment. (This horse owner had a history of failing to pay and then when it got ‘legal’ would jump back in and offer to pay pennies on the dollar to have the leins dropped, all the while his daughter drove around in a Ferrari.)
All I can say is that it takes months and months of certified letters, court dates, attorney letters etc. to be given court approval to have a horse auctioned to pay for past bills. So some of the money owed to the trainer are probably for many months of board, training and probably farrier fees and vet expenses while pursuing legal action to have the horse auctioned to pay for past due bills.
I have been to barns when the stall doors were chain locked to keep owners from removing the horse while the Barn help was occupied. A very dangerous practice but now we know why.
Sorry for all all parties involved.
Might have been there to try to get sold. KY is a big venue for selling big money horses.
Any know what ever happened with this case? Always wondered.
Good question! I also think of it from time to time
As of 7/5-7/8/2018 he was being shown by Melissa Murphy in Performance Hunters and in June was being shown by Holly Shepherd and Helen Brown according to the USEF show records for “Tybee”.
So, no longer “missing”. Glad the horse is ok. Thanks for the update 
