Harness Racing Trainer Accused In Horse Beating That Forced Animal To Be Put Down – News18

CRAWFORD, N.Y.: A harness racing coach in upstate New York was accused of hanging a horse and fracturing its cranium, requiring the animal to be euthanized, authorities stated.

Frederick Bourgault, 26, was arraigned Tuesday on two expenses in reference to the dying of a race horse named Finish Line final July on the Pine Bush Training Facility in Crawford, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of New York City, based on Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler.

Bourgault is accused of hanging the horse with an unspecified laborious object, inflicting a cranium fracture that resulted within the animal being euthanized, based on a social media publish from Hoovler.

Investigators later had the horse exhumed and examined by veterinary consultants.

Bourgault was indicted in November on two felony expenses, together with second-diploma legal mischief. A decide on Tuesday ordered Bourgault, who’s from Canada, to give up his passport because the case proceeds.

It was not clear if Bourgault had an legal professional. The Associated Press left cellphone messages on the places of work of the district legal professional and authorized help in search of data.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals famous that Bourgault had beforehand been fined or suspended for kicking horses and for extreme use of the whip.

“Bourgault is a repeat offender who should have been booted from racing years ago and banned the first time he whipped a horse after a race was over,” PETA senior vp Kathy Guillermo stated in a ready launch.

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