The roller coaster lawsuit between trainer Wesley Ward and owners/raiders Ken and Sarah Ramsey over disputed unpaid training bills came about December 21 when a district court judge Jessamine flouted an order he issued on December 9 allowing trainers to sell 14 horses during training at the upcoming January Keeneland All Age Horse Sale.
Ward asked county court judge Hunter Daugherty earlier this month to let him sell the horses because he alleges Ken Ramsey won’t let him race or sell them in order to start getting his money back. claim is close to 1 dollar. millions of unpaid training coins. All proceeds from the January sale of Keeneland will be in escrow until the remaining issues of the lawsuit, including the amount actually owed, are resolved. Ward originally filed a lawsuit against the Ramseys in March.
The day after the horses were added to the Keeneland sale on December 15, Ramsey’s attorneys Mike Meuser and Carroll “Trip” M. Redford III filed an urgent petition asking Daugherty to drop drum and place an order that allows the sale of the horses in exchange. for Ramsey to put $1,014,614.96 in escrow for security.
“Following the Court’s sale order, the supplement to the Keeneland All Age Horse Sale January 2021 has been released. It does not include horses that are the subject of the Court’s sale order, which means are horses, their pedigree and past performances will not appear in catalogs or add-ons for sale,” the emergency order states. “Therefore, authorizing the sale of horses in such circumstances would cause substantial harm to Defendant.”
In a footnote, the emergency motion noted that forcible sale would render Ramsey unable to recover his horse, “thus causing permanent and irreparable damage to the Defendants that would not can be caused all by money alone.”
The emergency order also requires the return of all Jockey Club registration papers to Ramsey’s horses, and any wallet money that Ramsey’s horses earn in any rider’s account. will be passed on to him and he also receives any proceeds from the sale of the sold horses. during the November mixed sale in Kentucky. All of this will be done in accordance with Tuesday’s ruling by Daugherty.
Ward attorney Grahmn Morgan confirmed that Daugherty had agreed to ignore the order to sell the horses but that Ramsey was required to put $1.15 million in escrow.
“We have security in place for our claims,” says Morgan. “We’re going to pull the horses out of the sale now because we’ve been paid that amount.”
