I'm betting that singer guy gets the part.
Posted on 10/26/2015 7:09:52 PM PDT by digger48
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Just days ago, the nearly 1,300-pound, powerful jumping horse with a shiny chestnut coat named Phedras de Blondel arrived at his new home in the U.S., a farm owned by a champion rider in Florida.
On Sunday morning, his owner discovered a horrific scene near his stall: the 12-year-old gelding had been slaughtered and butchered, most likely for his meat. Only his head and neck were left intact. Now, detectives are trying to find the perpetrators.
“What they did to this horse had nothing to do with his value,” Debbie Stephens, who owns the 27-acre ranch in Palmetto, said Monday. She would not disclose the price she paid for the horse, but show horses can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. “It’s one of the cruelest things that could happen to any horse. This just turned my life around.”
Stephens is a veteran show jumper and holds the women’s high jump record of 7 feet, 8 inches. Her husband was a co-designer of the show jumping courses for the 2008 Olympic Games in China.
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While eating horse meat is generally taboo in the U.S., it is common in dishes in some Caribbean and European countries. Atwood said there are some people living in the U.S. willing to pay top dollar.
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Mexicans,,,
You beat me to it. Who was/were the hired help? Anyone missing on that farm?
I bet you’re on the right track,,,
Maybe the BLM.
Libtards and Uniparty supporters don’t mind the invaders stealing American jobs or collecting a plethora of welfare benefits, but a large show horse being eaten may change their opinion about the invasion, IF that is what happened.
People are giving horses away if you are in the horse meat business and slaughtering on the spot? Near the other animals who are going to smell the blood and freak out?
Much easier to take the horse away in a trailer to a place you have set up for butchering a large animal.
I am going to be cynical and say that I smell insurance fraud.
Mexican, yes - maybe Haitians
I'm betting that singer guy gets the part.
And this one can't be pinned on Tom Hagen.
Seven seconds. :-)
Was it done in Halal fashion? Or will Muslims end up in purgatory for eating horse?
LOL
For $400 they could have had two formidable Great Pyranees in that barn guarding the horses. They would have chewed the azzes off those guys. I never understand why people buy expensive livestock and then don’t guard it.
We are thinking of getting a couple of goats and a dozen chickens and at least one Pyranees that can cash the check our Chihuahua’s mouth writes. :-)
These values are understated by a mile. Debbie Stephens shows at the upper A and AA levels of show jumping, at which the competitive horses are valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Sounds like a job for Johnny Dollar.
http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/johnny-dollar-duke-red-matter-parts-2/
Johnny’s search for the truth behind the death of a race horse leads to an investigation of a missing horse trainer.
Original Air Date: January 25 and 26, 1956
” I am going to be cynical and say that I smell insurance fraud.”
If someone is around horse people, they can get all the free horses they can stand right now.
Drugs are not unknown in the horse industry. Paybacks, vendettas, and pure hate are also well represented among some horse groups.
Drugs or unpaid debt is a giid place to start looking.
I am going to be cynical and say that I smell insurance fraud.
Always a possibility when expensive horses are involved. The article insinuates that the pasture is very close to the interstate so it would be easy access.
This happened in Florida, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out who did this.
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