Thoroughbred Breeder Paragallo Charged With 22 Cruelty Counts

New York Thoroughbred breeder Ernie Paragallo was charged with 22 counts of cruelty to animals, the chief prosecutor in the case told The Horse‘s sister publication The Blood-Horse April 10.

“The animals were clearly neglected,” Greene County District Attorney Terry J. Wilhelm, alleged of the Thoroughbreds at Paragallo’s Center Brook Farm in the Hudson Valley about 20 miles

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New York Thoroughbred breeder Ernie Paragallo was charged with 22 counts of cruelty to animals, the chief prosecutor in the case told The Horse‘s sister publication The Blood-Horse April 10.

“The animals were clearly neglected,” Greene County District Attorney Terry J. Wilhelm, alleged of the Thoroughbreds at Paragallo’s Center Brook Farm in the Hudson Valley about 20 miles south of Albany.

He was arraigned April 10 at town court in Coxsackie. The alleged violations are misdemeanors.

The charges came following an investigation by the State Police and the Hudson-Greene Humane Society/SPCA, which raided the farm earlier this week with warrants

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Tom Precious also writes for The Blood-Horse, sister magazine to The Horse.

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