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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: SeattleSlew on May 07, 2024, 06:49:55 PM

Title: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: SeattleSlew on May 07, 2024, 06:49:55 PM: Created the first million dollar stud (Noble Victory) and had some of the best at Lana Lobell and Walnut Hill.
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: Grandstand Handicapper on May 07, 2024, 07:57:26 PM: Very, very smart and knowledgeable man in the breeding end of the business. He had been suffering from dementia. Condolences to his family and loved ones.
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: hoosierboy on May 07, 2024, 08:49:00 PM: RIP
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: wiseowl on May 07, 2024, 10:39:32 PM: I met him years a go at the farm was a decent guy for sure.
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: TimTimTimbo on May 08, 2024, 12:59:37 AM: Sad, apparently took his own life

https://harnesslink.com/usa/alan-j-leavitt-dies-from-gunshot-woundwolf/
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: The Exporter on May 08, 2024, 05:53:43 AM: Tragic end to a storybook life. RIP , Alan.
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: Billsmafia on May 08, 2024, 09:19:11 AM: I reached out to Alan a couple of years ago regarding one of his broodmares. He couldn't have been more pleasant and communicative. He invited me to come to Walnut Hall any time I was able to.

RIP Alan. You were a class act.
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: wizardofoz on May 08, 2024, 11:37:44 AM: Any REASON to kill himself? Serious medical diagnosis?
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: TimTimTimbo on May 08, 2024, 01:07:21 PM: Quote from: wizardofoz on May 08, 2024, 11:37:44 AM
Any REASON to kill himself? Serious medical diagnosis?

Dementia
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: Brown jug on May 08, 2024, 02:20:48 PM: went out on his own terms to some extent
horrible disease
a benefit to the industry over the years
RIP
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: SeattleSlew on May 08, 2024, 02:58:17 PM: Washington State has a "right to die" law, so people don't have to shoot themselves in order to end their lives under strict "guardrails"..
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: ROOSTER COGBURN on May 15, 2024, 05:17:44 PM: Quote from: Grandstand Handicapper on May 07, 2024, 07:57:26 PM
Very, very smart and knowledgeable man in the breeding end of the business. He had been suffering from dementia. Condolences to his family and loved ones.

Years of Cocaine abuse isn't a great preventer for dementia either. ngc3
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: Legal Larry K on May 15, 2024, 05:44:07 PM: seen the name around but never met or knew him. was he jewish?
Title: Re: Alan J. Leavitt RIP
Post by: Bernie Madoff on May 15, 2024, 06:59:14 PM: Quote from: Illegal Larry on May 15, 2024, 05:44:07 PM
seen the name around but never met or knew him. was he jewish?

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