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Stolen Standardbreds from Lebanon Raceway March 26, 2004
Note: Two of the horses have brands and lip tattoos. Bud
only has a lip tattoo. The numbers for Bullwinkle and Mike are on the
site. Thanks to the Cincinnati Enquirer for this article!
Montana
Mike Info - lip tattoo and brand under the mane on the
neck: brand- V3755
Bullwinkle
info - lip tattoo and brand under the mane on the
neck: brand- VC120
Bud's No More -
Bud
is a 9 year old Bay gelding. His lip tattoo number is
P5217
Please pass this notice to your friends and ask them to do the
same. These owners need your eyes!
Debi Metcalfe
Stolen Horse International, Inc.
www.netposse.com
Home of NetPosse and Idaho Alerts for missing horses.
Monday, March 29, 2004
Horses apparently stolen
Cincinnati Enquirer Article: Three missing from stable at Lebanon Raceway
By Reid Forgrave
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON - Three standardbred racehorses were apparently stolen
from a
barn at Lebanon Raceway late Friday or early Saturday.
Montana Mike, a 5-year-old gelding, and two other Standardbred racehorses - 9-year-old gelding Bud's No Wiser and 5-year-old
gelding
RK's Bullwinkle - disappeared from their stalls at the Lebanon
Raceway in Warren County according to trainers and reports filed
with
Lebanon police.
The 17 other horses in the barn at the time of the apparent theft
were left untouched.
When the grandmother of RK's Bullwinkle's trainer, David Setser,
went
to the barn at the raceway on Broadway Street in Lebanon Saturday
morning to feed the horse, she noticed three horses were missing.
Trainers first assumed the horses had escaped into another part of
the training area, but when they couldn't find any of the horses,
they presumed they were stolen.
"(The thieves) must have somehow gotten past the
security," Setser
said of the training area of more than a dozen barns housing 20
horses apiece. It's guarded 24 hours a day. "I've just got a
big
headache over all this."
The three horses are all pacers, meaning they move both legs on
the
same side forward in unison when racing. The trainers are working
with Stolen Horse International Inc., a North Carolina-based
nonprofit group that helps victims of horse thievery. The group
sent
out a global alert about the missing horses.
An estimated 40,000 to 55,000 horses in the United States go
missing
or are stolen each year, according to the group.
Setser said Sunday that the thief wasn't likely to race the horses
because the branded horses easily could be spotted. But he worried
the thief could take the horses to be slaughtered.
Montana Mike's trainer, Jeff Brewer of Morrow, said the horse's
owner
bought it a week ago for $3,000, hoping the gelding could regain
his
winning form from last year when Montana Mike won five races.
"We don't know how to handle this, really," Brewer said.
"It's not
something that happens real often."
Brewer's wife, Lynda, went to a livestock sale in Waynesville
Saturday night to see if any of the three stolen horses were being
auctioned. (No racehorses were at the livestock sale.)
"These horses are just like our pets, only they're our
livelihood,
too," Lynda Brewer said.
The horse owners don't have insurance on any of the horses, and
they
hope either the track or the Ohio Harness Horsemen's Association,
an
industry organization of more than 3,000 Standardbred owners,
trainers and drivers in Ohio, can help them recoup their losses if
the horses aren't found.
Keith Nixon, general manager of Lebanon Raceway, did not return
phone
calls on Sunday. A raceway representative confirmed the horses had
disappeared but said the raceway knew few details.
Lebanon police are investigating but had no suspects on Sunday.
RK's Bullwinkle's owner, Richard Graham of Bellefontaine,
estimated
his horse is worth about $10,000, and he said he had hoped to sell
the horse in a month. RK's Bullwinkle has lifetime winnings of
about
$12,000, Graham said.
"He raced good this week, and when you're racing good that's
when
someone wants to buy," Graham said. "It's sad; you get
pretty
attached to a horse. I delivered him, broke him, put him on the
track. I just hope someone at least is feeding him and taking care
of
him and not taking him to be killed."
Help finding horses
Anyone with information about the weekend horse theft in Lebanon
should call Lebanon police at (513) 932-2010 or e-mail trainer
Lynda
Brewer at lbrewer@go-concepts.com.
Stolen Horse International Inc. online: www.netposse.com
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