Horse Mysteries

Breakdown! Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! This week, it’s our medical mystery as we hear about the tragic end of the amazing racehorse Ruffian. We’ll hear her incredible Ogden-filled history and the factors that contributed to her catastrophic racing injury. It’s a sad story, but also a triumphant […]

An Interview with Virginia Slachman Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! Welcome to Season Six of your favourite horse-based true crime podcast! We have a treat for all you lovers of horse mysteries as Lezah and Dave have an enjoyable conversation with Virginia Slachman, a college professor, horse lover, […]

Not His First Rodeo Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! Welcome to Season Six of your favourite horse-based true crime podcast! On the final regular season episode of Horse Mysteries things get really grim with rodeos and the murder of young girls. It’s a story of cruelty, depravity, ill-equipped […]

Ask Dave: Why Horses? Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! Welcome to Season Six of your favourite horse-based true crime podcast! This week Lezah asks Dave “Why horses?” Why do people love horses? She also controversially asks who makes better riders? Men or women? Or other horses!!! (She actually […]

Jet Run and the Impossible Landing Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! Welcome to Season Six of your favourite horse-based true crime podcast! Lezah tells us that this week’s episode is not so much a horse mystery, but more of a horse-adjacent thriller. So fasten your seatbelts and return […]

FRENCH EXIT Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! Welcome to Season Six of your favourite horse-based true crime podcast! On a dark and stormy night, in a castle overlooking the valley, Sylviane Genevieve Marie Victurnienne de Rouchechouart-Mortemart, Dame de Vivonne and Princesse Tonnay-Charete died. Her passing was as mysterious […]

COMPOUNDING THE PROBLEM Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! Welcome to Season Six of your favourite horse-based true crime podcast! This week on the show, Season Six’s most popular sport returns once again in a story of polo ponies, pharmaceutical foul-ups and death. It’s a case of murder most […]

Wild-Eyed and Wicked Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! Welcome to Season Six of your favourite horse-based true crime podcast! This week on the show, Lezah tells a sad tale of Wise and Wicked Ways, other high level horses, big money, and the competitive spirit gone wrong. Also, we […]

Crime Doesn’t Pay (Or Does It?) Hello, horse fans and hello, mystery fans, and hello, horse mystery fans! Welcome to Season Six of your favourite horse-based true crime podcast! On this episode, we hear about arms heiress Susan Cummings, who fatally shot her boyfriend, polo player Roberto Villegas, in a struggle during which he was […]

This episode, the curious case of Tareq and Michaele Salahi - who didn't stop believing in their privilege to get whatever they wanted anyway they might want it.

Horse Mysteries big wig, Lezah Williamson, and Listening Party/Fansplainers MVP Mary Dedrick are a couple of good sports and gamely go through a list of topics drawn from Sneaky Dragon Episode 700. We think they had fun, but they're pretty cagey.

This week's episode tells the story of racehorse trainer and society gal, Beryl Markham, who had a rather remarkable life. How remarkable? Well, give this episode a listen and you'll find out!

For twenty years, an amazing player dominated the sport of polo, but he came, played hard, and disappeared before anyone could speak to him. This mystery lasted twenty years until the early '70s when a rule change revealed him to be... Well, you'll just have to listen to the episode to find out!

On this week's episode, Lezah takes us back into the past for gruesome murder and forward into the present for amazing advancements in DNA evidence.

You'll go batty for this week's episode as Horse Mysteries travels to Australia for the harrowing appearance of a never-before seen illness, which affects all animals - even the human animal.

This week, the story of a horse's mysterious death and subsequent mutilation at the hands of extraterrestrial beings. Or is it really that simple?

This week Lezah takes us back to New Zealand in the 1920s for a gruesome murder, some marital hijinks, typically laconic Antipodeans, and a mystery that only a horse can solve.

This episode, Lezah takes us on a tour of the shady world of horse trading, self-aggrandizing zoos, impotent officialdom, and really grumpy horses on a show we're calling Endangered!

On this week's show, we continue with Part Two of Unsocial - a look at cyber bullying and its violent aftermath in the world of high-level dressage. On this episode, it's trial time as the victim's victim goes on trial. He is guilty, but there are some heavy issues with this case. Will he be found guilty?

On this week's show, it's all intimidation, cyber stalking, cyber bullying and illegal surveillance, and then things really get serious, like, attempted murder serious!

On this week's show, Lezah puts Dave on the spot and grills him on all things horsey in the Olympics in an episode we're calling Ask Dave!

On this week's episode, a Nazi sculptor, a forty-four ton horse sculpture, and its mysterious disappearance in the aftermath of WW2. How could a thirty-foot long, forty-four ton bronze statue disappear? Well, you'll have to listen to find out!

Maple Leaf Forever Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans! An innocent meeting at a local Toronto ice rink led to one of Canada’s biggest child abuse scandals. Fortunately, the perpetrators were arrested, but others were caught in the blowback including one of Canada’s most notable equestrians, a former Pony Clubber who […]

No Foot, No Horse! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans! Did you know that every fourth episode of Horse Mysteries is our medical mystery? Me neither! But you learn something new everyday, and on this episode we learn about breeding, genetics, disturbing hoof defects, and the wonderful Connemara pony. Enjoy! We […]

Sabotage! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans! Welcome to Horse Mysteries. On this episode: he was an up-and-coming event rider, working for a stable with promising horses when it all came crashing down with accusations of cheating. But was it cheating? The rider said no, the stable said no. Was it […]

Grey Area! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans! She was an internationally famous equestrian with an amazing horse, but then one day her daughter disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Can the police find her? Was it foul play? And who was the perpetrator? The answers are all in this episode of Horse […]

CANCER! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans! It’s the first episode of our fourth season of Horse Mysteries! On this episode: he was an amazing athlete, a natural horseman and a bad boy who took it too far. He went from being one of Canada’s greatest Olympians to disgrace – an […]

Foxcatcher Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans! This week: It’s the final episode of Season Three of Horse Mysteries and Lezah tells us the sad and lurid tale of John Du Pont, his failed attempts to make a mark in the world of sports, and the deadly spiral of drug-fueled psychosis […]

Horse Movies! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans! This week we hope that you’re also movie fans as Lezah and Dave discuss their favourite (and maybe not so favourite) horse movies. As people who are and have been closely involved in the world of horses and the horse industry, Lezah and […]

Panique Collectif! Hello, fans of horses and mysteries! On this episode of Horse Mysteries, it’s 2020 and farms across France are experiencing an unprecedented wave of horse mutilations. Is it satanic cults? Macabre trophy hunters? Ghoulish fetishists? Organ traffickers? The mentally ill? ALIENS??? Well…listen and learn! We hope you enjoy this week’s episode. Please comment […]

Vetted! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and welcome to another episode of the podcast that makes your dreams come true: Horse Mysteries! This week, our Horse Bits will have you breathing heavily, and Lezah presents a tale of broken trust and tragic squalor in a story she’s calling Vetted. We hope you enjoy this […]

The Strangling Angel of Children Hello, horse fans and mystery fans and horse mystery fans! Welcome to another episode of Horse Mysteries! This week, Lezah presents a medical mystery: The Strangling Angel of Children – after hundreds of years of infant deaths, scientists finally find the cause, but the cure comes at a great cost. […]

Operation Cowboy Hello, horse fans, and mystery fans, and especially horse mystery fans! This week: during the final months of World War II, a courageous group of American, German and Cossack soldiers must band together to save the historic Lipizzaner horses from a hungry Russian army and desperate German forces. Will Operation Cowboy succeed? We […]

TOXIC! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans! This week: on Horse Bits, we hear a little bit about how horses sleep standing up. Then we hear our main story: the sordid tale of murder, adultery, and more murder – plus multiple trials, multiple autopsies, and botched surgeries galore. Don’t eat the doughnut! We hope you […]

Enemies Begone! Hello, mystery fans, and welcome back to another season of Horse Mysteries, the podcast that is what is says it is! This episode: When a star racehorse suddenly drops dead, the net of suspicion is cast far and wide. Still, it will take almost a hundred years to figure out what actually happened […]

SHOCKING! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans! Lezah is calling this episode SHOCKING!, but we think it should be called, “What Goes Around Comes Around”! This week, past wrongs are righted as the unexplained disappearance of an innocent woman shines the light of justice on a network of double dealing and death. It’s a holiday […]

Horse Whisperers: Fact or Fiction? Hello, horse fans and mystery fans! On this episode of Horse Mysteries, Lezah asks the controversial question: Horse Whisperers: Fact or Fiction? Let’s examine those gifted individuals and their almost magical abilities to bend horses to their will. Or do they? Is it a real skill or a crass, commercial […]

Love Hurts Hello, horse fans and mystery fans! Welcome to another episode of Horse Mysteries. This week Lezah and David investigate the perfect murder: a story of love, lies and horse tranquilizers that we’re calling Love Hurts. Listen in to this week’s episode about a millionaire flying CIA doctor who does a very bad thing. […]

A Horse of a Different Colour Hello, horse fans and mystery fans! This week, we look at a case of race fixing that is probably the most inept, idiotic affair ever attempted by the most bumbling gang of would-be criminals that have ever darkened a racetrack doorway…. …or were they? Listen in to this week’s […]

The Lost Generation Hello, horse fans and mystery fans! We apologize for our tardiness. This episode comes to you in spite of air travel, birthdays, weekend getaways, a lost episode, and eye surgery! On this episode, Lezah and Dave recount a medical mystery re-shaped by medical technology and rapid communication that we’re calling The Lost […]

Hello, horse fans and mystery fans, on this episode of Horse Mysteries, Lezah answers Dave’s questions for another fun segment of Horse Bits. Then things take a turn as we hear about someone who had it all – talent, respect, admiration – and threw it all away for power and depraved self-indulgence. For good reason, […]

A GREAT SHOT! Hello, horse fans and mystery fans, this week on Horse Mysteries, Lezah is surprised by another installment of Horse Bits and then things get artistic, scientific and murderous as Lezah looks at the life and achievements of Eadweard Muybridge. You may have seen his photographs, but you probably haven’t heard the whole […]

Candy We’re happy to be back after a nice rest! Well, a nice rest for Dave; Lezah was toiling away down on the old research farm finding new stories to tell on another season of Horse Mysteries. On this episode, we return to the dangerous and deadly world of Chicago’s horse industry for a story […]

Beat the System Hello, mystery fans, this week on Horse Mysteries, another installment of Horse Bits and then Lezah regales us with a story she’s calling Beat the System – a tale of horses, big money, and the top three most successful gamblers in modern history. Lezah, horses and mysteries – it’s a real trifecta! […]

Follow the Money Hello, horse mystery lovers, welcome to another episode of the podcast made just for you! This week, Lezah recounts a sad story of broken trust, secret accounts, stolen money, and very expensive hobbies in a tale we’re calling “Follow the Money”. Thanks for listening.

The Luck of the Irish Hello, mystery fans, and welcome to another episode of Horse Mysteries. This week Dave is confused by Lezah’s telling of a story we’re calling “The Luck of the Irish” – another story of human venality and cruelty with the added bonus of bumbling criminality. We hope you enjoy this week’s […]

There’s More Than One Criminal Type Hello, mystery fans, and welcome to another episode of Horse Mysteries. This week we return to the disreputable corners of the horse world for a story of vanity, fraud, greed, and murder in a story we’re calling “There’s More Than One Criminal Type”! We hope you enjoy this week’s […]

If Looks Could Kill Hello, mystery fans, and welcome to another episode of Horse Mysteries. This week – despite Dave’s enthusiasm for “m-u-u-u-rder” – we change things up with a medical mystery. The story of a mysterious illness that affected thousands of horses and the single horse that started it all. We hope you enjoy […]

The Wild West Hello, mystery fans, and welcome to another episode of Horse Mysteries. This week we hear a sordid tale of bitter resentment, lawless corruption, inhuman degeneracy, cold-blooded murder, and, of course, horses in a story we’re calling The Wild West, but could also be titled Bad Blood. Please enjoy this week’s episode. Thanks […]

Sleep Like a Horse Hello, mystery fans! Welcome to our second episode of the podcast for people who like mysteries and horses! This week we’ll hear about bad people doing bad things to other bad people in a story we’re calling Sleep Like a Horse – embezzlement, fraud, and murder! We hope you enjoy it!