Montana Mike - Standardbred Stolen from Lebanon Race Track
Reward $500 for return of Mike -- $1,000 for
conviction (see note below) Reward growing!
Between $500
and $6,250
Personal note from SHI - These horse were reported to me
right after I gave my session at the Ohio Equine Affaire on theft
and the important reasons for identifying your horse. More
info will follow. This horse and the other two stolen at the
same time have tattoo's in their lips. Act fast and see if these
horses can be found as quickly as the Ohio Four last year!
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News
Article
Horses
stolen off Lebanon Raceway's backstretch (Monday, March 29,
2004)
Reward
fund grows for missing horses (Friday,
April 02, 2004)
Horse owner adds to reward - a letter from Dan Kennedy
Horse
Owner Boosts Reward - April 4,
2004
Check out Bud's No Wiser and Bullwinkle
stolen also from same raceway.
Friday, April 02, 2004 5:34 PM
Hi, I wanted to see if I could offer an additional 500.00 reward
for the return of Montana Mike, which is the horse that I own. I
would also like to offer an additional $1,000.00 for the
conviction of the person who stole the 3
horses.
Thanks,
Rick
Below is the form submitted by Lynda Brewer (lbrewer@go-concepts.com) on Saturday, March 27,
2004 at 16:50:20
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real name: Lynda Brewer
email: lbrewer@go-concepts.com
owners name: Rick Starr
city: Morrow
state: Ohio
zip: 45152
home phone: 513-899-5090
work phone: 513-324-5873
other phone: 513-470-8014
date of theft: 3-26-04
type of theft: race track
city county of theft: Lebanon
horses name: Montana Mike
breed: Standardbred
sex: geld
color: Bay
age: 5 years Old
weight: 700
height: 15 hands
identifiable characteristics: Brand is v3755 located on the
neck. Has lip tattoo.
Bay with left hind pastern white with
black. He has a quarter crack patch on right front. He had a red
haler on.
how stolen: Out of his stall in the barn at Lebanon Raceway.
local agency: Lebanon City Police
agency address:
agency city: Lebanon
agency state: Ohio
agency zip: 45036
agency county: Warren
agency phone: 513-923-2010
agency fax:
agency email:
agency report date: 3-27-04
agency case num: 04-4908
agency contact: Reward: Yes
Horse owner adds to reward
The following is excerpted
from a letter by Dan Kennedey, one of the owners victimized by a
theft last weekend at Lebanon Raceway:
Last week, three racehorses were
stolen from the grounds of Lebanon Raceway, presumably to be sold
to killers, or, hopefully, the Amish or riding stable owners who
do not require papers.
I previously owned and drove one
of these horses, Montana Mike. Clair Umholtz, who trains my
horses, and trained “Mike,” acted upon the news by organizing
a reward fund, to which he has contributed $250, I’ve
contributed $250, and others have contributed as well, a total of
$1,250.
Anyone with information about
this theft may be eligible for the reward, and should contact Amy
Hollar, the horsemen’s representative at Northfield Park.
In addition to that reward, I
will personally pay an additional $5,000 reward to anyone who
provides sufficient information and assistance to recover these
horses alive and which leads to the arrest, prosecution, and
conviction of the thieves, plus an extra $1,000 for each year of
jail time to which they are sentenced. You can reach me, on this
matter, through Amy, too.
If the thieves are reading this,
I would suggest you return these horses alive and well. If you
want to do so without getting caught, take them to Lebanon or any
nearby horse farm, or to Northfield PArk, in the dead of night,
tie them to a fence or pole, and place a quick anonymous pay phone
call to the police to tell them to come and get the horses.
If you do not, you better spend
the few hundred dollars you may have gotten from this going far
away, because the reward money being offered is very likely to
bring forward people who can lead us to you. Somebody who knows
about you will want between $1,250 and $6,250. If that doesn’t
soon have results, I may hire private detectives to find you.
From now own, every time you are
in a convenience store and see a police car pull up, every time a
police car approaches you on the street, even any time you see
someone in a suit eyeballing you from across a room, you’ll
start sweating. You can never relax.
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