Arrested 55-year-old woman suspected of cutting a mane's mane.March 27, Hidaka-cho, Hokkaido 20:01
Police suspected that a 55-year-old woman in Saitama Prefecture had been destroyed in a case where the mane of a famous horse `` Taiki Shuttle '' who was active in overseas and domestic races was cut off at a ranch in Hidaka-cho, Hokkaido last year. I was arrested. In the Hidaka region, retired racehorses are finding manes cut one after another, and police are looking into the connection.
Last September, at the ranch in Hidaka-cho, the mane of the famous horse "Taiki Shuttle", which won five times in overseas and domestic G1 races, was found cut off.
According to police, the mane had been cut with a sharp knife about 8 cm wide and about 15 cm long.
On the ranch in the Hidaka region, manes of retired racehorses retired after winning other races such as the Japanese Derby and the Kikuhana Prize were found one after another, and police who were conducting an investigation on 27th Saitama Prefecture, Kawaguchi City, has arrested Mr. Shigeka Nakada (55) for allegedly damaging property as suspected of cutting the mane of "Taiki Shuttle".
It has not disclosed whether the charges have been acknowledged.
Police are investigating the motivation to cut out the mane and whether it is related to a series of incidents.
Ranch "Relief because it becomes a deterrent to mischief
Takafumi Iwasaki, representative of the ranch “Versailles Farm”, which keeps the “Taiki Shuttle” with a cut mane, said, “I was relieved that the arrest of the suspects would be a deterrent to mischief. I want you to come to me. "