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expertise.22
Petitioner spent time in riding, exercising, and/or caring
for Moonshadow from July 1988 when he acquired it until sometime
during 1990 when it became lame. During that period, petitioner
spent about 15 to 18 hours a week in riding, exercising, and
caring for Moonshadow during the mornings when he was not provid-
ing services as a psychologist.23 Although the record estab-
lishes that during 1990 petitioner purchased Jill24 and Gator25
and rode Jill and that around 1991 Jill had a colt named Zack, it
22 Petitioner claims that during the years at issue he hired
experts to train his horses. However, the record does not
identify such experts, their qualifications, or the specific
training that they allegedly provided to petitioner's horses
during those years. What the record does show is that it was not
until 1994, after the years at issue, that petitioner asked Ms.
Lyman from time to time to train some of his horses and that it
was at some undisclosed time during the period 1992 through 1995
that petitioner asked her to advise him how to market them.
23 Petitioner suggested in his testimony that, during the period
from July 1988 until Moonshadow became lame in 1990, he worked
with Moonshadow in the ring in an effort to teach it to move
laterally and backwards. We found petitioner's testimony in this
regard to be general and vague. For example, he did not specify
the extent of, or the time he spent on, any such exercises for
Moonshadow.
24 When petitioner acquired Jill sometime during 1990 after
Moonshadow became lame, he did not realize that it did not
possess the characteristics necessary for a show horse or a
competitive horse, from which we infer that he may not have
properly investigated the potential of that horse before he
purchased it.
25 Petitioner purchased Gator, a five-year old gelding, during
1990. However, Ms. Lyman did not begin to train any of peti-
tioner's horses until the spring of 1994. Although Ms. Lyman
provided some training to Gator, it is not clear from the record
whether that training occurred in the spring of 1994 or thereaf-
ter.
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