[arab-l] Re: Bill Sheets

[Jasmine Cave <toppere@siu.edu>]

anyone know anything about this?
jasmine
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>Since many of you know the story, skip this if you wish.
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>Bill Sheets was an Arabian 'collector', specializing in Al Khamsa
bloodlines.  He was
>convicted several times in Canada for neglect, since he kept his horses in
appalling
>conditions, failed to feed them properly, gave them no veterinary care.
He was banned
>from owning horses in Canada so he moved to a rural area in Southern Ohio.
 Eventually
>the conditions and starving horses came to the attention of the
authorities (LOTS of
>complaints) and his herd was seized.  The Humane Society took around 120
starving
>horses off his farm, some of which were in such bad condition that they
had to be
>carried.  He had at least 30 or more stallions and about 80 mares.  He
didn't believe
>in gelding anything.  I can testify as to the horrendous conditions
because I toured
>his farm pretending to be looking for a horse a couple of months before
they were
>seized.  
>He was convicted of neglect in a local court and banned from owning horses
in that
>county for several years.  He fought the conviction all the way to the
State Supreme
>Court, losing at every level, wasting tens of thousands of dollars on
legal fees.
>He could have kept those horses in comfort on the money he wasted.
>It's pretty obvious he has some kind of mental block because he kept
insisting 
>there was nothing wrong with any of his horses.  I saw them.  There was
one mare
>with a piece of wood sticking out of her skull, several with broken legs
that had
>healed crooked, many so emaciated they looked like skeletons.
>I've heard he has moved to somewhere in the Appalacian area of eastern Ky
where he
>would get less attention. 
>Sadly, I've never been able to convince the Arabian Horse Registry to ban
him from
>registering any horses, at least, I've never heard they changed their mind
about
>banning him.  
>When he was charged, the registry had a list of around 250 horses
registered to his
>name, he could only account for about half of them.  The rest are probably
dead
>since he had a big pit on one of his farms where he dumped the bodies and
bulldozed
>over them.
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>Sue
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