Chad Moore Denied All Rights of American Stud Book

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March sentencing

A horse trainer in Ohio jailed for 180 days on six admitted charges of horse abandonment has been denied all privileges of the American stud book.

The Jockey Club annnounced the decision in respect of Chad Moore, effective from January 1, 2011.

The action was taken based on information received by The Jockey Club's registrar, which included Moore's guilty pleas on March 2,2010, in Clermont County Court.

Moore, 39, was charged over the abandonment of six horses, a pony, and a donkey on a Bethel, Ohio, property. Moore was also sentenced to an extra 10 days for violating probation and was ordered to pay $US179 in restitution to the Clermont County Humane Society. He was also fined $US400 and ordered to perform community service.

Denial of all privileges of the American Stud Book includes the privilege to register foals or submit any documents related to foal registration.

The January 1, 2011, effective date allows registration of foals already conceived before the judgment.

Jockey Club chairman Ogden Mills Phipps said: "When there is a final determination by a court, an official tribunal or an official racing body that a person has killed, abandoned, mistreated, neglected or abused, or otherwise committed an act of cruelty to a horse, The Jockey Club will not hesitate to take appropriate action."

The Jockey Club's Board of Stewards reached the decision at a meeting on Saturday.

Excellent job, Jockey Club. Also, although the article doesn't mention it, Moore is not allowed to work with animals and had to surrender any other animals he owned at the time of sentencing.