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Anthony Ciulla, later Tony Capra (c. 1943 – June 6, 2003) was an American criminal, convicted of bribing jockeys and fixing horse races. He was connected to the Boston -based Winter Hill Gang and later testified against several members of the organization.
Peter Joseph Licavoli (June 7, 1902 – January 11, 1984), (nicknamed "Horseface" [1]) was an American organized crime figure in St. Louis, Missouri before moving to Detroit, Michigan.
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Frank "The Horse" Buccieri (January 23, 1919 – March 8, 2004), also known as "Frank Russo" or "Big Frank", was an American mobster who headed mob operations on the West Coast of the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. He was the brother of Outfit hitman Fiore "Fifi" Buccieri.
Horse theft was a well-known crime in medieval and early modern times and was severely prosecuted in many areas. While many crimes were punished through ritualized shaming or banishment, horse theft often brought severe punishment, including branding, torture, exile and even death. [2]
The animal’s bloody head was left on the seat of a digger that belonged to the businessman
Shergar was a Thoroughbred bay colt with a white blaze, four white socks and a wall (blue) eye. [1] He was foaled on 3 March 1978 at Sheshoon—the private stud of the Aga Khan IV—near the Curragh Racecourse in County Kildare, Ireland.
The show jumping horse killings scandal refers to an unverified number of insurance fraud cases in the United States between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s in which expensive horses, many of them show jumpers, were insured against death, accident, or disease, and then killed to collect the insurance money.