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Petitioners also had a barn at their home that Mr. Morley used
for foaling. When mares were ready to give birth to a foal, Mr.
Morley moved the mare from the farm to the barn located at
petitioners' home. He attached a "monitor" to the mare that
would go off when the horse was ready to give birth.3 When the
monitor went off, it signaled a beeper that Mr. Morley carried
with him at all times.
Additionally, petitioners had a closed-circuit television
system that monitored horses about to give birth. The barn
located at petitioners' home contained a camera in the stall with
the horse. A separate bedroom in petitioners' home contained a
monitor that received the transmissions from the camera. When a
horse was about to give birth, Mr. Morley slept apart from his
wife in the separate bedroom containing the monitor. When the
mare gave birth, Mr. Morley delivered the foal.
In 1985, Mr. Morley purchased two broodmares that were in
foal, Sophia and Khola, and a syndicate share of a stallion, T.O.
Bolero. T.O. Bolero was a Bask-bred horse.4 The most Mr. Morley
paid for a horse was $10,500. Mr. Morley maintained casualty
loss insurance on some of the horses. Between 1985 and 1991, Mr.
3 Horses lie down flat on the ground when they give birth.
Horses only lie down to give birth. The monitor detected when
the horse lied down, thus signaling the impending birth of a
foal.
4 This means that it was a famous horse.
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