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.
