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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | dianeguinn - 2015-10-03 7:14 PM
Also, the year the horse in my avatar won Drysdales Super Show, the video person came and told me that a guy from the east coast was buying all my videos of him, and to keep an eye out. Then the gal stalled next to me told me a guy kept coming by and looking at him in the stall (which I already had a bike lock on it), so my husband and I took turns staying in front of his stall the whole night. Idk if he had any idea of stealing him, but I knew he could take him to the east coast, sell him for grade and still get good money for him, so I decided to just stay with him.
You don't think he was just a fan? |
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Location: west of East Texas | About getting sued... My very docile, very socialized, very tolerant Great Dane went everywhere with me. Would sit in the stands by herself while I rode if that's where I told her to sit. She went college classes with me every day and made her rounds saying hi and met me back at the truck when class was over. She visited all over the neighborhood whenever the kids were out playing (they came and got her). But she had two rules... don't touch my truck and don't touch the mobile home I lived in then. She bit the cable guy in the butt while he was down on his knees looking at her puppies under my house. He was turning on the cable at another residence, had no business in my yard, but came over to see her pups, entered my yard while I was not home. He sued. He won. |
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Location: Oklahoma | barrelracer1983 - 2015-10-03 9:54 PM
dianeguinn - 2015-10-03 7:14 PM
Also, the year the horse in my avatar won Drysdales Super Show, the video person came and told me that a guy from the east coast was buying all my videos of him, and to keep an eye out. Then the gal stalled next to me told me a guy kept coming by and looking at him in the stall (which I already had a bike lock on it), so my husband and I took turns staying in front of his stall the whole night. Idk if he had any idea of stealing him, but I knew he could take him to the east coast, sell him for grade and still get good money for him, so I decided to just stay with him.
You don't think he was just a fan?
I didn't know what to think. At that time, I was pretty naive. The video person is the one who warned me and told me it was sketchy. Videos in the late 90's weren't cheap. He bought about $75 worth of my videos and wanted her to look up any she had of me from previous shows. I'd say that's either a pretty rabid fan or a stalker, if he wasn't looking to steal my horse. At a big show in Memphis later that year, a horse was stolen that looked almost identical to mine, but it had a blanket on, and mine had a brand. The guy just walked out with her, and they never got her back. Personally, no, in hindsight, I don't think he was just a fan. |
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Location: sunny california | I was warned tht someone that hitches horse hair was after my mares mane and tail. It was very long and thick, she was well endowed LOL |
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| My horses were poisoned in their pasture at my house. Friends that live near me had gone to a rodeo in OK and when they got home one of their horse's throat had been cut. Two other friends had their horse's shot at their homes. One died. The other had to be put down. This can happen anywhere not just at barrel races. |
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Location: Arkansas | dianeguinn - 2015-10-03 11:39 PM
barrelracer1983 - 2015-10-03 9:54 PM
dianeguinn - 2015-10-03 7:14 PM
Also, the year the horse in my avatar won Drysdales Super Show, the video person came and told me that a guy from the east coast was buying all my videos of him, and to keep an eye out. Then the gal stalled next to me told me a guy kept coming by and looking at him in the stall (which I already had a bike lock on it), so my husband and I took turns staying in front of his stall the whole night. Idk if he had any idea of stealing him, but I knew he could take him to the east coast, sell him for grade and still get good money for him, so I decided to just stay with him.
You don't think he was just a fan?
I didn't know what to think. At that time, I was pretty naive. The video person is the one who warned me and told me it was sketchy. Videos in the late 90's weren't cheap. He bought about $75 worth of my videos and wanted her to look up any she had of me from previous shows. I'd say that's either a pretty rabid fan or a stalker, if he wasn't looking to steal my horse. At a big show in Memphis later that year, a horse was stolen that looked almost identical to mine, but it had a blanket on, and mine had a brand. The guy just walked out with her, and they never got her back. Personally, no, in hindsight, I don't think he was just a fan.
I think a "fan" would have wanted to talk to you and compliment your horse. I agree, this person was up to no good. |
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Location: Arkansas | My senior year at the National High School Finals, two breakaway girls had their horses' long, beautiful takes chopped off. Thankfully, the horses weren't actually harmed, but I'll still never forget that. |
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Location: on my horse | well that settles it, I'm never hauling again or leaving my horses unattended ANYWHERE |
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| Crapshooter is right about the dogs. If you have a dog that even MIGHT bite someone while it is tied to your trailer, you are setting yourself up for a lawsuit. You are liable for damages caused by your dog. We all want to think the dog will only bite the "thief" but in reality there are too many other innocent people that walk by including small children. A few years ago a boxer was tied to a trailer at a big race at Ardmore and it tried to bite several people including a little boy maybe 5 yrs old. The dog just missed the kid's face. The dog owner was told to put the dog up or it will be shot. They put the dog up.
Now to address the question. Locks on stalls, frequently check on horses in stalls at random times, cameras in the stalls, and if it's not too hot you can put slinkies or blankets on horses and a hood to cover them up. Boarding at a facility away from the big show is a good idea too.
It is a shame we have such corrupt people in the industry but we do, from the little shows to the NFR. I have heard horror stories about some of the big names that so many people look up to.
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Location: Kansas | Horses at the racetrack are probably more in danger than barrel racing horses from this type of behavior in competitors.
Does anyone remember the story of how Jet Deck died. Seems he was overdosed in his stall. |
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| Frodo - 2015-10-05 9:23 AM
Horses at the racetrack are probably more in danger than barrel racing horses from this type of behavior in competitors.
Does anyone remember the story of how Jet Deck died. Seems he was overdosed in his stall.
Phar Lap 1926? |
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| Frodo - 2015-10-05 9:23 AM
Horses at the racetrack are probably more in danger than barrel racing horses from this type of behavior in competitors.
Does anyone remember the story of how Jet Deck died. Seems he was overdosed in his stall.
Phar Lap 1926? |
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| Frodo - 2015-10-05 9:23 AM
Horses at the racetrack are probably more in danger than barrel racing horses from this type of behavior in competitors.
Does anyone remember the story of how Jet Deck died. Seems he was overdosed in his stall.
Phar Lap 1926? |
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| Frodo - 2015-10-05 10:23 AM
Horses at the racetrack are probably more in danger than barrel racing horses from this type of behavior in competitors.
Does anyone remember the story of how Jet Deck died. Seems he was overdosed in his stall.
There are actual consequences if you get caught on a racetrack doing this though. Rarely is anything done when barrel horses are sabotaged. |
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| Frodo - 2015-10-05 9:23 AM
Horses at the racetrack are probably more in danger than barrel racing horses from this type of behavior in competitors.
Does anyone remember the story of how Jet Deck died. Seems he was overdosed in his stall.
Jet Deck was given an overdose of Barbiturates in his paddock, not in his stall. But the end result was the same. |
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| sodapop - 2015-09-30 8:23 PM
It seems like I remember reading here on BHW about a horse being stolen from a barrel race at Hardy Murphy in Ardmore OK by some match horse race people. The barrel racer had some help finding the horse and I do believe got the horse back. Anyone remember that or am I just telling a tall tale?
The horse was found safe. Your memory is correct. |
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| streakysox - 2015-10-05 9:34 AM
Frodo - 2015-10-05 9:23 AM
Horses at the racetrack are probably more in danger than barrel racing horses from this type of behavior in competitors.
Does anyone remember the story of how Jet Deck died. Seems he was overdosed in his stall.
Phar Lap 1926?
Phar Lap died from a massive over dose of arsenic. At that time arsenic was frequently given as a "tonic". Tommy Woodcock, Phar Lap's groom who accompanied Phar Lap from Australia, denied that the horse was ever given anything. However, years later, supposedly on his deathbed, Tommy admitted to accidentally overdosing Phar Lap with arsenic-he didn't dilute it correctly. I don't know whether Tommy really admitted his mistake or if this is just another mystery about Phar Lap, |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I read posts like this and it makes me almost glad I don't compete anymore. I like the good old days when you tied your horse to the trailer and you didn't lock anything up and never gave it a thought. |
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Location: somewhere in the south | We always buy a tack stall, it's well worth the money! I don't worry about someone doing something to my horse, we're not 1D but heaven help the person if they did!! I do want to rant a little about the folks that camp out in the aisles of the barns though. We were at a big regional show and across the aisle was a group that had 3/4 of the aisle taken up with all their stuff from hay, feed, saddles, chairs, buckets, etc.............I could barely bring my horse out to saddle up! I understand wanting to look after your horses but camping out literally in the aisle to this extent is very rude! Pool your money and get a stall or drive back and forth with the majority of your stuff! Very frustrating  |
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Location: East TN | It really is a sad situation when others feel the need to sabotage someone else's horse or belonging s out of pure jealousy. It's those types of people that ruin EVERYTHING for EVERYONE. 
I'm with the majority of people here when i say my horses aren't the game changers that everyone waits to see run and no, i don't have the newest, flashiest tack around... so i guess that kind of puts me UNDER the radar for the scum of the earth that commit these atrocities at events.
I wouldn't recommend putting a lock on your horse's stall door though... like it was said previously..if something happens and you're not around there may good people (believe it or not haha) who may be around to help your horse in an emergency until you can get there...and if a lock is on the door help can't HELP. I do hang their hay, water, and feed buckets in the back of their stall so it's not so accessible to passersby. And, both of my boys pin their ears at anyone who comes near their stalls anyway so i think they may have their own defense system!  (in reality tho they wouldn't hurt a fly haha)
I do spring for the extra tack stall ...it just makes it way easier than carting everything back and forth... and i do obviously put a lock on that door. I also have one of the small cameras that sends the pics to my phone that i set up in the tack stall. |
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