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Missing Grand Prix jumper has been found
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Good Guinness, a Grand Prix jumper, was loaded onto a trailer owned by a private hauler on September 8 of 2008, in California, and went missing sometime before his supposed arrival in New York on September 14. Good Guinness is a 12 year old dark brown Irish Sport Horse standing 17 hands high. The dark brown horse was shipped to the east coast for sale by his trainer, and although a dark brown horse did indeed arrive at the New York farm, this horse was not Good Guinness.
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(AP Photo/Mike Derer)
It was not until early March that the dark brown horse that arrived at the New York farm was labeled an imposter. Good Guinness' trainer Patrick Seaton arrived at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida only to realize that the horse purportedto be, and showing as, Good Guinness was only a look-alike. Both Good Guinness and the imposter are both the same color and have the same markings, however; the imposter bears a scar on his right hind and is missing his front teeth! The point that should have been a dead give away is the fact that, while showing, the imposter could not live up to Good Guinness' Grand Prix reputation and skill.
The imposter horse's identity is still unknown but a veterinarian confirmed he is microchipped with a European microchip.
The good news is that Good Guinness was recently found and has supposedly spent the last five months at Resolution Farm in Long Valley, New Jersey. Nothing has been confirmed but allegedly Good Guinness was being shown under the name of Kayne, a horse owned by McLain Ward according to show results.
The circumstances do not seem to be pointing towards criminal involvement, only a genuine shipping error. The whole situation sounds like quite the nightmare for Good Guinness' owner and trainer!
