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01-27-2010, 02:43 PM
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Penn barring Gill horses pending review
By Marty McGee Penn National Race Course is continuing to refuse to permit horses owned by Michael Gill to race, pending results of the necropsies that have been performed on two Gill-owned horses who broke down last week at the Grantville, Pa., track. "Until we have a meeting to review those results and have a chance to talk to Mr. Gill about them, we are declining to accept entries of his horses," Chris McErlean, vice president of racing at Penn, said Wednesday. "I would expect that meeting to happen before this week is out." Gill, the New Hampshire-based mortgage broker who won the Eclipse Award for top owner in 2005 and led all North American owners in wins last year, has had at least six horses sustain catastrophic injuries at Penn since Oct. 1. The situation came to a head Saturday night when Penn jockeys refused to ride after the fifth race, when the Gill-owned Laughing Moon broke down shortly after the wire. It was only after the one remaining Gill horse on the card was scratched that the jockeys agreed to continue riding. Meanwhile, trainer Darrel Delahoussaye, who trained a sizable string of horses for Gill at Penn but no longer works for him, disputes Gill's version of how they parted ways. Gill said Monday that Penn "wanted me to give Darrel up to keep my stalls," but Delahoussaye said in an e-mail to Daily Racing Form that he spoke Sunday morning to Gill and told him he was going out on his own "because of all the controversy." Likewise, said McErlean, "in no way did Penn make any such demands" for Delahoussaye to be fired so that Gill could retain the 49 stalls he currently has at the track.
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01-27-2010, 02:50 PM
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01-27-2010, 03:20 PM
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01-27-2010, 03:31 PM
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It's their right but Guilty until proven Innocent is bulls.hit.
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01-27-2010, 06:31 PM
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01-27-2010, 08:43 PM
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Time to expand that title more Steve, Gill has posted his threats:
In reply to Maggie's letter on the Paulick Report, post #88, his trainer is there too. Michael Gill Says: January 27th, 2010 at 5:48 pm This is my first email response ever. I am the owner of these horses not the trainer. Every one of my trainers has strict instructions that if a horse is sore, you don’t run that horse and there is not a trainer that has worked for me that will dispute that by name. I give away more horses than anyone in this industry and I have a bill of sale for one dollar for each and everyone. Many of these horses are still running but not for me. None of my horses have tested positive for anything. So when you see the comments on these blogs they are coming from trainers like Mr. Guilforte that won’t tell you that I claim a bunch of his horses and he cries each and every time and I mean big tears, Maggie Moss who has horses running in Penn now an has Stephanie Beatie to claim horses, and the other bloggers? Jockeys I don’t use. So when you win $3 million dollars out of a little track in Western Pennsylvania their motives are pretty clear. The other group of bloggers hates horse racing all together, and jump on every opportunity to give me a black eye. Every one of these horses were bread to race, otherwise they would not be here and trust me they do not come cheap. I want all you bloggers to pay attention because class is in session: Gillforte, Maggie Moss, Mr Clifton, Ray Paulick, pay particular attention. Have you all heard of liable? And antitrust? If you think I am kidding about suing you, you haven’t been paying attention. I have never made a threat and not followed through. I have a case in the Supreme Court right now. I am going to have horse racing as my business, and my hobby will be punishing each and every one of you pinheads, so happy blogging you have my attention.
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01-27-2010, 09:38 PM
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He went 22 2/5 - 46 1/5 - and was beaten by a head in 1:05.10 while 8 lengths clear of the rest in an 11 horse field. Three races later ... going the same 5.5f distance - African King went 22 flat - 45 3/5 - and won a 38K alw race with Cohen in 1:04.60 African King is a pretty damn honest horse - now 9 career dirt starts with 7 wins and 2 seconds.  I'm sure Sheets guys would say that the 6 or 7 weeks rest your horse had between starts is the reason for the big top he'll get .. and he's sure to bounce next time if he runs back on short rest. However, I think the most important thing to take out of it all is .... BET AGAINST AFRICAN KING NEXT TIME HE RUNS!
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02-20-2010, 11:22 PM
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Not only did he almost run as fast as stakes quality African King in the last race ... but the horse who went out early and dueled on the lead with him and was disposed of - he came back and totally dominated a 12 horse field at Laurel by 4.5 lengths and paid $57.80 to win. 
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