Paulick Report: DARRYL DELAHOUSSAYE ARRESTED IN PENNSYLVANIA

[andymays]

http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/delahoussaye-arrested-in-pennsylvania/

Excerpt:

Pennsylvania-based Thoroughbred trainer Darrel Delahoussaye was arrested by State Police Wednesday morning and charged with several felonies and misdemeanors alleging theft by deception, illegally administering drugs to racehorses , rigging a publicly exhibited contest and tampering with physical evidence in an investigation that began last fall.

[lamboguy]

they spent bunches of money and this is all they could come up with. this poor slob gonna take the fall for all the sharpies involved. congradulations to the pennsylvania state police for doing such a fine job!

[JustRalph]

why he wasn't arrested in ohio after shocking a horse is one question I have.

I hope they lock the whole damn bunch up from Penn National

[JustRalph]

they spent bunches of money and this is all they could come up with. this poor slob gonna take the fall for all the sharpies involved. congradulations to the pennsylvania state police for doing such a fine job!

More indictments to come.........and if this guy starts singing........? who knows?

[tucker6]

I hope they lock the whole damn bunch up from National Penn
fixed it for ya. ;)

[lamboguy]

More indictments to come.........and if this guy starts singing........? who knows?that's not the way these things work, there are never more indictments. the pennsylvania state police just wasted $9 million on this fiasco.

[Greyfox]

they spent bunches of money and this is all they could come up with.!

That's all they could come up with? :rolleyes:
Did you expect them to find that he killed JFK?
I wouldn't want any one of those charges against me.
JR is right. This could be the tip of the ice burg. Stay tuned.

[Maryland Owner]

DD has a horse entered tomorrow night at Charles Town , which is also owned by Penn National Gaming. Will be very interested to see if that horse and/or DD are allowed through the gate or allowed to race.

[Hedevar]

that's not the way these things work, there are never more indictments. the pennsylvania state police just wasted $9 million on this fiasco.

Absolutely right! That's standard language for thats all folks.

[lamboguy]

Absolutely right! That's standard language for thats all folks.
i hate to say this, but the most people in this world lack common sense. you can tell people anything and they are going to believe it. because the state attourney says something you don't have to take that as meaning a thing.


at least you figured out what this language means. it means that there is a slob that is the fall guy, just like the drug cases, the kingpin rats out the truckdriver and the truckdriver does 20 years and the kingpin does 5. happens all the time.

[Jeff P]

IMHO, racing is a gambling game first and foremost.

In order to have a gambling game, if you want it to appeal to the public at large - one of the basic requirements is that you need to be able to assure the public that the game itself is honest. In other words: Regulate the game in such a way that the integrity of the game itself is beyond reproach.

One need look no further than how the casino industry handles cheating for an example of how to do this: Get caught cheating in a casino and they will prosecute you. If you are found guilty by a jury you WILL go to jail.


One of the biggest problems in racing that I see it is the way the public at large sees "integrity of the game" vs. the way racing's decision makers see it.

Racing's decision makers THINK they are achieving "integrity of the game." But the public at large sees things a little differently.

If you take all sources handle as it existed 7 years ago in 2003 and adjust it for inflation - and then compare it to all sources handle as it exists today in 2010 - you will find that handle in 2010 is approximately HALF of what it was just 7 years ago in 2003.

Racing is in serious trouble. The status quo isn't working. If we keep to the status quo for another 7 years, I'll make the argument that we can expect handle in 2017 to be HALF of what it is today... Let me put that another way: Handle in 2017 will be ONE QUARTER of what it was in 2003.

Last fall, 510 horseplayers taking the HANA Survey named failure to address racing's drug integrity problem as the #3 reason they wager less than they otherwise would.

Because of drugs - specifically the lack of enforcement - There is enough public distrust about the integrity of the game that handle is being negatively impacted.

In this one instance, could the actions of the Pennsylvania State Police (unintentionally) accomplish something that racing's decisions makers have been wholly unable (or unwilling) to do themselves?... Restore a little integrity to racing as a gambling game?


-jp

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[kenwoodall2]

Come on, you know racing only bans jockeys without conviction, not horsemen!!

[Cardus]

I am not arguing that there is less interest in the game, Jeff, but you have to factor in the downturn in the economy as a reason why handle is lower, adjusted for inflation.

If the economy is roaring again in 2012 or 2013, I don't think your 2017 assessment will be correct. The handle will not be as dramatically lower as your estimate. It might be lower, but I don't forecast 50% less than in 2010.

[DeanT]

this poor slob gonna take the fall for all the sharpies involved. congradulations to the pennsylvania state police for doing such a fine job!

That "poor slob" electrocuted a racehorse to make him go fast.

Good riddance.

[DeanT]

I am not arguing that there is less interest in the game, Jeff, but you have to factor in the downturn in the economy as a reason why handle is lower, adjusted for inflation.

If the economy is roaring again in 2012 or 2013, I don't think your 2017 assessment will be correct. The handle will not be as dramatically lower as your estimate. It might be lower, but I don't forecast 50% less than in 2010.

When the economy was up in 2002-2006, handle was down appreciably, when adjusted to inflation.

[andymays]

Penn Trainer Charged After Grand Jury Probe | BloodHorse.com

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/58118/penn-trainer-charged-after-grand-jury-probe

Excerpt:

Delahoussaye also was charged with reselling three injured horses after promising they would be retired to a petting zoo, but at least one of those horses subsequently raced three times at Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts, according to the grand jury report.

The trainer was banned from Penn National earlier this year.

State police said Delahoussaye had two employees remove evidence from a barn at Penn National in an attempt to foil investigators.

[billyball]

He may of been banned from Penn National but ran a horse there as recent as the 1st race on July 22.

[Brogan]

In this case "banned" means he had to give up his on-track stalls. He's racing off a farm.

[Brogan]

Penn Trainer Charged After Grand Jury Probe | BloodHorse.com

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/58118/penn-trainer-charged-after-grand-jury-probe

Excerpt:

Delahoussaye also was charged with reselling three injured horses after promising they would be retired to a petting zoo, but at least one of those horses subsequently raced three times at Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts, according to the grand jury report.

Who exactly do you make such a promise to? And if breaking a promise is now an indictable offense...we're all in deep doodoo.

[joanied]

He'll cut a deal and others will go down with him...I hope...I also hope he ain't a flight risk, because his bail wasn't much.

[lamboguy]

IMHO, racing is a gambling game first and foremost.

In order to have a gambling game, if you want it to appeal to the public at large - one of the basic requirements is that you need to be able to assure the public that the game itself is honest. In other words: Regulate the game in such a way that the integrity of the game itself is beyond reproach.

One need look no further than how the casino industry handles cheating for an example of how to do this: Get caught cheating in a casino and they will prosecute you. If you are found guilty by a jury you WILL go to jail.


One of the biggest problems in racing that I see it is the way the public at large sees "integrity of the game" vs. the way racing's decision makers see it.

Racing's decision makers THINK they are achieving "integrity of the game." But the public at large sees things a little differently.

If you take all sources handle as it existed 7 years ago in 2003 and adjust it for inflation - and then compare it to all sources handle as it exists today in 2010 - you will find that handle in 2010 is approximately HALF of what it was just 7 years ago in 2003.

Racing is in serious trouble. The status quo isn't working. If we keep to the status quo for another 7 years, I'll make the argument that we can expect handle in 2017 to be HALF of what it is today... Let me put that another way: Handle in 2017 will be ONE QUARTER of what it was in 2003.

Last fall, 510 horseplayers taking the HANA Survey named failure to address racing's drug integrity problem as the #3 reason they wager less than they otherwise would.

Because of drugs - specifically the lack of enforcement - There is enough public distrust about the integrity of the game that handle is being negatively impacted.

In this one instance, could the actions of the Pennsylvania State Police (unintentionally) accomplish something that racing's decisions makers have been wholly unable (or unwilling) to do themselves?... Restore a little integrity to racing as a gambling game?


-jp

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other things too, its not that simple but you have this spot on. aren't you the guy from hanna? and if you are how come they don't listen to your common sense? i understand why they don't listen to me, i yell and swear at them, but you are a good guy and they should give you an ear and act on it. i think i saw you on tvg a few years ago, you present yourself very well and you are a positive for the sport.

[JustRalph]

He'll cut a deal and others will go down with him...I hope...I also hope he ain't a flight risk, because his bail wasn't much.

If he jumps bail.......... I will personally help hunt him down.........who's with me?

[takeout]

DD has a horse entered tomorrow night at Charles Town , which is also owned by Penn National Gaming. Will be very interested to see if that horse and/or DD are allowed through the gate or allowed to race.Same here. In fact he has two entered. (1st & 8th races)

[Maryland Owner]

Both of DD's entries for tonight at CT are scratched

[DeanT]

From Paulick today:

a groom for Delahoussaye testified before the grand jury that the trainer used prohibited drugs or practices—including snake venom and DMSO injections–to treat horses and instructed the groom to hide the materials when investigators were conducting searches.

http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/grand-jury-case-against-darrel-delahoussaye/

[Cardus]

When the economy was up in 2002-2006, handle was down appreciably, when adjusted to inflation.

Yet, during that period, average bet per race went from $277,364 ('02) to $286,153 ('06), according to Paulick's recitation of figures from the Jockey Club.

[CryingForTheHorses]

This just makes me sick!!!!...20k bail..So he comes up with 2k and gets out of jail and on his way to wherever!!..This man needs to be locked up..What are they thinking.The whole story with the grooms doesnt add up either..If they carried the drugs in their truck and onto the track they too should be charged..I wonder if they were legal aliens??..Very sad for the horses who cant defend themselves...Very sad for racing and really sad for the guy trying to make a honest living with these animals.Lets hope they catch them all..

[Trotman]

DD is a mutt and will get his if he rats and implicates others. He should come clean take the hit and do the time.
This will rid racing with one bad apple.

[DeanT]

Yet, during that period, average bet per race went from $277,364 ('02) to $286,153 ('06), according to Paulick's recitation of figures from the Jockey Club.

3000 less races does that.

Handle in 2002 was $15.1B, in 2006 it was $14.7B. Adjusted for inflation, it was much more of a drop than that, obviously.

[kenwoodall2]

In this case "banned" means he had to give up his on-track stalls. He's racing off a farm.
Banning his horses is a good start! I advocated that in general for cheating trainers with PE positives! Other trainers are watching! This may be his first stall denial due to the investrigation?

[OntheRail]

I think re making that electric whip stick he used on the horse and applying it to his backside would be a good start in his re-education on animal husbandry.

[Niko]

More indictments to come.........and if this guy starts singing........? who knows?

One could only hope....

[JustRalph]

that's not the way these things work, there are never more indictments. the pennsylvania state police just wasted $9 million on this fiasco.

The plot thickens

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/07/more_horse_doping_arrests_are.html

[WinterTriangle]

the pennsylvania state police just wasted $9 million on this fiasco.



"Penn National spokesman Fred Lipkin said the track is fully cooperating with the investigation"


Penn Nat should have been watching their own house, and put it in order. Long before any of this happened.

It's not like they had no clue.

Instead, the taxpayers not only have to listen to grueling racing industry stories, but also have to pay the bill for investigating them.

Seems like this is the kind of thing that really endears the public to horseracing.:bang:

[takeout]

OWNER WITT EJECTED FROM PENN NATIONAL
http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/owner-witt-ejected-from-penn-national/

[Citation1947]

http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/delahoussaye-arrested-in-pennsylvania/

Excerpt:

Pennsylvania-based Thoroughbred trainer Darrel Delahoussaye was arrested by State Police Wednesday morning and charged with several felonies and misdemeanors alleging theft by deception, illegally administering drugs to racehorses , rigging a publicly exhibited contest and tampering with physical evidence in an investigation that began last fall.


First posted at http://businessasusualdickhertz.blogspot.com/

[proximity]

First posted at http://businessasusualdickhertz.blogspot.com/

nice blog except for the part where you're attending hokey hbpa meetings and forming horse retirement committees with known super-trainers who throughout the latter part of the 2000s have trained at 30%+ at multiple mid-atlantic race tracks. such numbers are not part of the natural order of things in drug free racing.

michael gill is far from being the only problem in mid-atlantic racing and the fbi needed to be involved in any investigations long ago.

[WinterTriangle]

nice blog except for the part where you're attending hokey hbpa meetings and forming horse retirement committees with known super-trainers who throughout the latter part of the 2000s have trained at 30%+ at multiple mid-atlantic race tracks. such numbers are not part of the natural order of things in drug free racing.

michael gill is far from being the only problem in mid-atlantic racing and the fbi needed to be involved in any investigations long ago.

So you're saying the tracks commissions can't police themselves?

BTW, the blog was necessary. From what i can see, the writer was posting elsewhere, for well over a year and 1/2, about all this bad stuff going on there, and his posts were "pulled" when things got hot a few months ago. Whole topics that went on for pages and pages. Basically, you can't even *write* about it anywhere safely. :confused:

I feel sorry for honest horsemen who have to earn their living in a hole like Penn. They really must be *squashed* in so many ways .... Don't ask don't tell sort of stuff?

If it's gotten so bad that the FBI needs to come in, then the racing commission should be fired, the track officials should be fired, the mananagement should be fired, and maybe they should just close the place down!

Otherwise, are these the *shenanigans* that racing needs to *survive*? Most are going to say good riddance.

[takeout]

Otherwise, are these the *shenanigans* that racing needs to *survive*? Most are going to say good riddance.On the Roger Stein show of July 10th, Dana Parham, at about 26 minutes in, makes an interesting point about racing and boxing.
http://www.rogerstein.com/radio/archive2.asp

[proximity]

So you're saying the tracks commissions can't police themselves?


no i don't have confidence in pennsylvania's racing commission.

juan carlos guerrero is approaching 45% at pha right now and i know he's been around horses all his life and all that good stuff, but......:rolleyes:

and it's not just pennsylvania.

at least "somebody" told rudy rodriguez to "cool it" before he went over 40% and set off alarms by winning the belmont training title!!

[Citation1947]

BTW, the blog was necessary. From what i can see, the writer was posting elsewhere, for well over a year and 1/2, about all this bad stuff going on there, and his posts were "pulled" when things got hot a few months ago. Whole topics that went on for pages and pages. Basically, you can't even *write* about it anywhere safely.


The thread in question was started by Dickhertz(an owner at Penn National) http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=258460

The thread and information that many posters have supplied and their involvement has helped tremendously with the PSP and grand jury investigation and the arrest of one scumbag and the arrest of other scumbags still to come.

[Citation1947]

nice blog except for the part where you're attending hokey hbpa meetings and forming horse retirement committees with known super-trainers who throughout the latter part of the 2000s have trained at 30%+ at multiple mid-atlantic race tracks. such numbers are not part of the natural order of things in drug free racing.

michael gill is far from being the only problem in mid-atlantic racing and the fbi needed to be involved in any investigations long ago.


If you knew anything about what you were talking about you'd know that Dickhertz and others formed this committee to basically police that "known super-trainer" and to make sure that horses weren't just sent off to the killers anymore. That known super-trainer isn't going to be there much longer anyway.

[proximity]

If you knew anything about what you were talking about ...

you mean the hbpa isn't a joke?

anyhow, hope you're right that there are more arrests to come....

[davefulche]

Looks like Delahoussaye horses have found a home......Michael Caraman previously winless this year "saddled" a winner at Delaware today. Last time out the horse was trained by DD, and now in the upcoming days the previously unknown Caraman has quite a few horses running at Delaware. Looks like they are all Gill/Delahoussaye or Witt/DD horses. Looks like Caraman may be the new Jay Buderwicz. THe name used at the PHA earlier in the year that was hitting 30% for a while.

[Niko]

Looks like Delahoussaye horses have found a home......Michael Caraman previously winless this year "saddled" a winner at Delaware today. Last time out the horse was trained by DD, and now in the upcoming days the previously unknown Caraman has quite a few horses running at Delaware. Looks like they are all Gill/Delahoussaye or Witt/DD horses. Looks like Caraman may be the new Jay Buderwicz. THe name used at the PHA earlier in the year that was hitting 30% for a while.

I don't have facts but based on what you say they're showing no fear, they just shove it down the establishments throat and make as much money as they can while they can. Purse money and at the betting windows I'm sure. Tragic comedy at it's finest

[Citation1947]

I should have posted this under the Micheal Gill thread, but being that this thread is closer to the top....

Dickhertz (close to the investigation) has some new information posted on his website regarding this issue...you can read it here http://businessasusualdickhertz.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-is-it-so-quiet.html

[WinterTriangle]

Just how many people have to stand by and say nothing for this much CRIME to go on at one lil ol racetrack?

Mind boggling.




BTW, wonder if they have found or questioned SB's 4-H lady yet.

Or the um...... petting zoo :lol:

[WinterTriangle]

Ongoing, apparently:

http://businessasusualdickhertz.blogspot.com/


I see that horses being vanned off still not being recorded in the charts:
http://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbPDFChartPlus.cfm?BORP=P&STYLE=EQB&DAY=D&tid=PHA&dt=09/27/2010&ctry=USA&race=2

Runaway Legend was vanned off.


I put Delahoussaye in my stable notifications, not that it will matter, names seem to change on who the trainer is on some horses. :rolleyes: Was Delahousseaye in last race, now some guy named Caraman. :lol: it's like musical chairs with names.

[mountainman]

Penn Trainer Charged After Grand Jury Probe | BloodHorse.com

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/58118/penn-trainer-charged-after-grand-jury-probe

Delahoussaye also was charged with reselling three injured horses after promising they would be retired to a petting zoo, but at least one of those horses subsequently raced three times at Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts, according to the grand jury report.



Lots of sellers write "not for racing purposes" on the foal certificates of horses they peddle. It's not legally binding and reflects wishful thinking on the part of people unwilling to foot the feedbill for stock THEY campaigned to the point of serious injury. And the reason for this scribbled sales- clause is rarely as humanitarian as the seller would have you believe. Ego and greed can come into play. The seller wants to insure that the horse never earns another dime, much less wins a race.

On a separate note, Delahoussaye is very engaging in person and difficult not to like. On a dark December afternoon several years ago, I was jogging through the far reaches of Mnr's parking lot when a man behind the wheel of a battered pickup flagged me down. It was Delahoussaye with a devilish smile on his face. He said three words: "Christmas money tonight." That evening he won with some 80-1 bomb, with one of his cohorts second at similar odds. The tri paid, like, 40k.

[joanied]

Incredible, what's going on at Penn. Maybe they need to shut the place down, at least for a while, and sort through everything, get rid of the cheaters...oh, wait, if they do that, no one will be left there!!
:mad:

[turfnsport]

Incredible, what's going on at Penn. Maybe they need to shut the place down, at least for a while, and sort through everything, get rid of the cheaters...oh, wait, if they do that, no one will be left there!!
:mad:

Do you really think its happening ONLY at Penn?

[castaway01]

Lots of sellers write "not for racing purposes" on the foal certificates of horses they peddle. It's not legally binding and reflects wishful thinking on the part of people unwilling to foot the feedbill for stock THEY campaigned to the point of serious injury. And the reason for this scribbled sales- clause is rarely as humanitarian as the seller would have you believe. Ego and greed can come into play. The seller wants to insure that the horse never earns another dime, much less wins a race.

On a separate note, Delahoussaye is very engaging in person and difficult not to like. On a dark December afternoon several years ago, I was jogging through the far reaches of Mnr's parking lot when a man behind the wheel of a battered pickup flagged me down. It was Delahoussaye with a devilish smile on his face. He said three words: "Christmas money tonight." That evening he won with some 80-1 bomb, with one of his cohorts second at similar odds. The tri paid, like, 40k.

So he and his friends fixed the race and then didn't bet the race? A $40,000 trifecta with those pools meant there was, what, $1 on the winning combo?

[joanied]

Do you really think its happening ONLY at Penn?

Not by a long shot...but at Penn, it seems to be running rampant!

[mountainman]

So he and his friends fixed the race and then didn't bet the race? A $40,000 trifecta with those pools meant there was, what, $1 on the winning combo?

I'm not saying the race was fixed. And I have no idea who played into what pools with how much money. Maybe the guy touts everything that he runs, or had some legit reason to like this particular horse. I simply related the incident verbatim. Make of it what you will. And I'm not defending Darryl Delahoussaye or minimizing his alleged crimes. I'm just remembering an instance when the guy tried to help me.

[Indulto]

I'm not saying the race was fixed. And I have no idea who played into what pools with how much money. Maybe the guy touts everything that he runs, or had some legit reason to like this particular horse. I simply related the incident verbatim. Make of it what you will. And I'm not defending Darryl Delahoussaye or minimizing his alleged crimes. I'm just remembering an instance when the guy tried to help me.Good to know you call 'em as you see 'em outside the announcer's booth as well.

[WinterTriangle]

I'm just remembering an instance when the guy tried to help me.

Nobody is all bad.

As you say, he may be very engaging, and have many good qualities

But that obviously doesn't mean that he, or those like him, should be making a living in a manner that requires caring for living, breathing beings.... like horses.

Hope he can find something else to do.