Owner of stolen horse won’t abandon insurance claim
Steve Smedley says there have been no sightings of the horse since it disappeared from Honeymoon Gap in January.
He says he’s convinced the horse was stolen despite having no evidence to prove his claim.
“We hope that we might find him but after several months on motorbike and helicopter and sort of looking through there and putting out rewards, we now seem to think that whoever’s taken him sort of put a bridle on him in the paddock, has actually ridden him out and left the gate open and laoded him onto a float and has gone,” he said.
Mr Smedley’s first insurance claim was refused without a hearing from the insurance company on the grounds that theft cannot be proven.
He says there’s no reason why Not Abandoned should have been singled out - except that it had won several races in Darwin and Alice Springs.
“There’s no way that they could possibly race him without producing the registration papers so therefore that would be out of the question,” he said.
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