“Horse Wife” Hires Hitman To Kill Rich Husband After Burning $20M On Failed Horse Show Business

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1:16They are genetically tested. They're bred to make sure that they are well-bred, that they're well-fid for the games that they're entering. One lab testing that you can get done on a horse is for the speed gene. It's a very specific gene. If a horse has this specific gene, they are going to be more predisposed to develop what they call the fast twitch muscles. They're perfect for the sprint, but they're not going to be endurance horses. So the genes of a horse can even tell you if a horse is going to be predisposed to liking dirt or turf, which is very important. The lab says some clients will even have their horses tested as soon as they're born.

1:54Then they can just map out a plan for all of their individual horses, which trainer they're going to go see which type of sport they're going to specialize in and there's a lot of specialties there's a lot of different ways you can look at a horse I mean obviously I'm not just talking from like an ophthalmology standpoint let's start with English riding you have dressage often called horse ballet it's how a rider is able to guide their horse through a complex movement performance it's an Olympic sport it's all about the grace the control of the horse if you are me and you are uncultured and you watch this on tv during the olympics it looks like the horse did didn't we yes it's doing like a little dalliance like a little dance like a little tippy toe dance that's what it looks like the horse is galloping in place it looks like it's just skipping in place which side note when they skip in place the horse appears motionless at certain points but that is exerting an enormous amount of energy on the horse because trotting in place defies the laws of motion for a horse.

2:55It actually is like physically very difficult. They're probably sweating from trotting in place. And I'm just like, look at him. Look at the tippy toes. That's what it is. These horses have to train for like a minimum of eight to 12 years to do the tippy toe dance. Wow. That's dressage. Then you head into show jumping. That's where the horses and the riders, they have to clear a course of obstacles. They look like fences without knocking them down. It's about speed. It's about clearing the rounds. Although most of them look incredibly graceful, I will say. But with any equestrian event, there has to be a lot of trust and relationship established between the horse and the rider.

3:30Show jumping, with that being said, so elegant, so graceful, so beautiful. I could never do that. If you've never seen it, I'm just going to give you a visual in your head for the audio listeners. You know when you have the dog competitions and you have the dog like jumping through the obstacle courses? It's like that, but you're on the Australian Shepherd's back. But also your outfit is great. It looks good. It looks artistic. I'm uncultured. It's the only way I can describe it. The third of the English disciplines is called eventing, where you do dressage, show jumping, cross country. Cross country is essentially American Ninja Warrior, but on a horse.

4:03You go through like a full outdoor obstacle course. You've got logs in ditches of water. You've got water features that complicate the horse, and horses get spooked very easily. So you have to make sure that they don't get spooked, and you get penalized for refusals, that's when the horse is like, yeah, I'm not going to do that. You get penalized for that. You get penalized for falling, obviously. Or interestingly, you get penalized for going too fast or too slow. I didn't know that was a thing, but you can't, you have to be in the sweet spot of allotted time. You actually get penalized if you're faster than that allotted time.

4:37Every second faster than that little sweet spot time, you have a penalty. Why is that? It's, you want to, I think that they're also trying to prevent reckless dangerous acts on a horse by going too fast and it's about like the agility and the consistent speed instead of just like bursts of sprinting through so they're looking for a lot of different things so like okay what you know these these sports what how much of that is the horse doing the sport versus the person on top of the horse both it is both yeah it's both so there are really really good riders but the horses that's why horse juice for reproduction is one of the most expensive liquids in the world if you have a really well-bred stallion if you have a really well-bred show horse their specimen to procreate other horses can be very expensive to purchase so it's all about the horse lineage and also the rider it's a mixture of both i mean i don't know It's hard to say, but I think the Western ones are a little bit more fun.

5:42So the Western riding disciplines and competitions, you've got reining. This is about the athletic prowess of the horse. So it's dressage, but kind of more rodeo level. I mean, it's all about how a horse can do a series of patterns, sliding, straps, spins, flying lead changes. One Redditor says, it primarily focused on moving your horse with very little hand movements. the focus is on using your seat and your legs almost exclusively to control this horse and the energy is different it appears that it's taking place inside like a dirt pit in a stadium and i love horses i think they're so majestic i have an irrational fear of sustaining a brain injury on a horse but other than that i feel like they're smarter than me however when you watch this for the first time all i can compare it to is like when your dog has the zoomies and they're zooming and they're like skidding to a stop and you're on top of the horse.

6:34That's what a lot of the rest Western competitions look like. And I'm sure it takes a lot of skill. And then you have, interestingly, I mean, you also have like the equestrian events that are more focused on the rider about how the rider is able to control their horse. Then you have like the show horse events where it's really just about the horse itself and their breeding and their stance and all of that, as well as horse show performances. Cavalia. It's like Cirque du Soleil meets horses. Acrobats on a horse. I mean, these are just a few shows in sports that horses are the center of. And of course, sports like polo.

7:11I can't forget polo before everyone gets mad at me. This is a field that's three football fields long. Everyone is on a horse. These horses are like a thousand pounds, even though they're called polo ponies. They're not ponies. They're massive horses. And the writers have to use these little mallets to hit and aim at this tiny white ball. Each polo pony is going like 30 miles per hour. All their tails have to be wrapped so that nobody's equipment or their tails don't get tangled with each other causing injuries. It's a very dangerous sport. Most elite polo players have at least 10 polo ponies for one match.

7:45They swap through the ponies in one match because a few minutes of polo ponying, the pony is tired. They've got 10, and they have to fly these horses in from all over the parts of the world when they have a polo match. But here's an interesting detail. Sometimes the polo ponies are all the same. Not the same breed. Not the same look. But genetic carbon copies. Genetic clones of each other. What do you mean? They started cloning ponies. You're kidding me? Yeah. Lab made. Lab made. From some of the best polo ponies, they cloned them. That's crazy. There's one top player in the world. Really? He's got, he's from Argentina, I believe.

8:22And he has six of the same exact pony, genetically speaking. They are clones. He has six clones. I didn't know we were doing that already. There's a lot of drama there. I mean, some people believe eventually polo is going to be a game of who can clone horses the best, rather than who can play polo the best. Other people think it's becoming even more expensive to learn the sport of polo. There's a lot of drama. Even who has the rights over each clone? There's so much drama there. There's a lot of scandals. It's a very complicated story where players are now saving genetic samples of their horse's skin in cryogenic storage chambers.

8:56The horse world is crazy. It seems like each division of equestrian sports, the horse world, they've got their own fair share of scandals. And for Valatar, this is a horse show in California. They have a lot of scandals. The owners of the horse show Valatar are this wealthy couple. They're pretty conventionally attractive as well. It's kind of important later, but they're the Remleys. The Remleys look like your standard rich couple from San Diego. Mark Remleys, the husband, he's a bit older. He looks very fit, but in a nerdy way. I don't know how to describe it. He looks fit in the way that Jeff Bezos looks fit.

9:32Like you remember Jeff Bezos as a bald nerd. And then now he's like jacked and bald. But you can just tell it just doesn't sit normally with him. Like he just doesn't move like he's always been fit his whole life. Like genetically modified. Exactly. Like it just doesn't feel like it just feels like a little weird. I don't know if that's the best look on him. Mark Remley looks fit the way Jeff Bezos looks fit. And then you have the wife, Tatiana Remley. And Tatiana, she's blonde. She's got a Sports Illustrated model cover body. And she's also the star of the Valatar horse show. She's an equestrian.

10:07She's a writer. They've invested over$20 million into the show. And they lose every single penny of it. I mean, the list of Valatar scandals goes on, but it includes horses get abandoned with nothing to eat. performers quit over massive creative differences over tatiana later the owners are known to be swingers at a sex club that a lot of celebrities attend and this is not necessarily a scandal but that was more of an interesting side quest and former staffers will come out to say more or less tatiana doesn't even know how to ride a horse well so their horse show what exactly do they do like which branch of the it's like division cavalier they are acrobats on horses cirque de soleil meets horses.

10:49So it's like performance. Yes. Not like a competition. No. I see. I see. And Tatiana doesn't even know how to ride a horse well and you're supposed to be doing a handstand on a horse that's galloping around the atrium. But the biggest scandal to come out of Alatar has to be the decapitated horse head on the Remley's marital bed. It's not real though. Thank god. Okay. I mean it happened but it's not a real horse head. It's a decapitated horse head from one of their very expensive horse statues that they have in their front lawn of their five and a half million dollar house in Del Mar, California.

11:22This is near San Diego. And it's clearly not a mistake. No one, it's not like one of their housekeepers accidentally knocked over the statue while sweeping. And in a moment of panic, they placed the decapitated horse statue head on the couple's bed, changed their government name, ran off to a new state to start a new business. That is not the case here. This is a targeted message. This is a threat. And by the end of it, one of the Remley's, one of the founders of the Valatar Horse Show, will be dead.

12:08Netflix has done it again. Unknown Number, The Crash, and now the new must-see documentary Maternal Instinct tells the story of Taylor Parker. while claiming to come from a wealthy family. She fell for Wade Griffin, a hog trapper in a small Texas town. Their relationship appeared perfect, complete with a pregnancy that she shared all over her social media. But doubts around her pregnancy grew. And when the truth finally surfaced, it brought horrifying consequences. Meet Taylor Parker, the youngest woman on death row and the town that knew she was lying but did nothing to stop her. Watch Maternal Instinct now, only on Netflix.

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15:24So please take care of yourself, and if this becomes too much, take a break, and we will see you in the next one. With that being said, let's get started. When it comes to the ultimate fantasy, the saying is, you know, no two are the same, right? That doesn't apply. Everyone has similar fantasies and interests, apparently. You like watching your partner have intimate relations with somebody else in front of you? Yeah, so did Diddy, okay? Get in line for the chair. There's lots of people. Now, the usage of ropes? There's a whole community built on the art of tying rope on somebody. However, even if you have this super niche, specialized interest where you think there's nobody else that has the same fantasy as I do.

16:02They are ready, such as watching Lady Antoinette do the bounce on a champagne bottle. A historical figure from France do the bounce on a champagne bottle. If you have thought about that extensively at night and it keeps you up, you are not entirely alone. And there is someone here to make it happen for you. The Sanctum Club. This is the place where nothing legal is off the table there are lots of places where you can go and watch your partner have intimate relations with someone else right in front of your face but none of them are like the sanctum club that's what all the sanctum members will tell you sanctum club is an elite sex club in beverly hills that has been called half pagan sex cult half entertainment mogul after party sex club say that one more time half what yeah it some people think it's like a pagan sex cult it's like not super religious oh okay or it's a half entertainment mogul after party sex club so where all the hollywood directors go after the oscars and they watch everybody do the bounce okay that's like which one is it we don't know it's still operating it is still operating with new owners okay yeah actually one of the members bought out the club and they operate it i did go on like I fell down a rabbit hole on reddit some people say it's past its prime time so there's like lots of debates of which club and I think they do a lot of more parties and events in New York and then I went down the whole rabbit hole and they said you know the best parties in New York are the ones that you need to invite to that nobody really knows the club name anyway okay it's up to you to decide which is a more fitting description for a sanctum you usually don't even know who's going to be in attendance beforehand you have to give up your phone at the door you have to sign an ironclad nda before going in the only reason that we even know about this club is well for how secretive they are they've got a whole season of a reality show online readily available to watch and we're gonna get more into that later because tatiana and mark remley are on the show okay that plus a few writers and a few column writers journalists were allowed inside and were able to describe the party without mentioning any specific guest.

18:13Each party is different. Each crowd of attendees is different. But for each party, you have a group of devotees. These are the performers that work for Sanctum. That's what they're called. They are the erotic theater performers. They're the show. Depending on the theme, their performance will differ. Sometimes it consists of them dressing up as bunnies and standing as still as possible as human furniture that you can grow. Other times, after a private dinner party, these devotees will climb on top of the dinner table and carry on with consumption of things that are not food. What? They're all eating each other, okay?

18:50They're all doing nasty to each other on the dinner table after the dinner party. I do think the health department might take issue with that, but it's not a restaurant establishment. It's a private party, so I guess perhaps it gets a pass. sometimes the performance will include one of the devotees dressed up as lady antoinette a historical figure sitting on top of a coffee table doing ungodly unspeakable things to a champagne bottle that hasn't been popped yet and the only thing i can think of is that seems really dangerous because at least you should empty it right yeah that's crazy but the most important part about sanctum club that's actually really alarming yeah i know and it was on the reality show oh oh yeah what is on the reality show the performance is on the reality show lots of stuff was on the reality show okay well yeah lots of stuff so but the most important part about sanctum club is that your biggest fears they tell you the biggest fears that you have about an intimate club is not going to come true what is the biggest fear if you go on reddit and you look up biggest fear about going to a sex club, an intimate club.

19:56Everyone is going to be unhygienic and ugly. That's people's biggest fears. What if I go and I'm the hottest one in the room and I'm not even that hot? That's what people say on Reddit, okay? People attending the clubs are scared to go see, God forbid, ugly people. That's terrifying for them. Then the next fear is that everyone at the better clubs, right, sometimes you go to an elite club and you're like, okay, well surely the pool's gonna be better here. And then you go and you find really ugly, old, rich dudes and really hot young girls. And that's it. So there's lots of fears. With Sanctum Club, they say this doesn't happen.

20:34Because even the old, ugly, rich guys, they get vetted. And you can't be too old and you can't be too ugly. You can never be too rich though. With Sanctum Club, those that have attended say you don't have to worry. I mean, first of all, the women outweigh the men in numbers most of the time. and they're all wearing like expensive bras that cost over a thousand dollars for one bra. High heels. Everybody's fit. Everybody's attractive. Everybody's wearing a mask. It looks like Cirque du Soleil meets a Victoria's Secret fashion show. People refer to it as quote, the most glamorous sex party I've ever been to.

21:03It's like the movies Eyes Wide Shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Is it? This is all legal? Yeah. Oh, interesting. Okay. Apparently a lot of the devotees are not hired. Like they're not paid for performing. so I think there's like legal loopholes oh okay I see so what is everyone doing there? each other so you pay to get in you pay to be a member first of all you need to buy membership and that ranges from$30 ,000 a year to could be$100 ,000 and then you pay to get into each party that's crazy and then once you get in I'm sure that there are concessions like free drinks and free food but that's not really what people are there for.

21:48They're there to do other things. What? Yeah. Okay. But I think the prices have changed. I think those were the prices at its height. If I'm not mistaken on Reddit recently, they had a couple go in for like$1 ,000 for the couple. It's insane. Yes, it's insane. But they were not paying a whole salary a year to be a member. Former party goers would argue. Damon, the original founder of Syncdom, he was so selective about who he let into the doors. It wasn't some cheap sex party where everybody brings a date and you automatically swap. There's a very big difference between a sex party and a Sanctum party.

22:24The founder Damon states, I have no desire for a swingers party here, but I do want to open dialogue about how we can come out of our fear of sexuality. So in order to enter, you must send a message on Facebook to Sanctum. At least that's how it started. Eventually they get so big, they have their own like curated submissions page. but it's just not, it's just very tedious to get an invite. There's no guarantee. To even pay to be a guest at one of the parties, you have to submit photos of yourself. You have to appear presentable. You have to answer questions such as, what turns you on the most?

22:54Now link all of your social media handles so we can vet you. You're supposed to be honest, but you can't help but feel like there's a right answer for every question. Like, what do you mean is the hottest thing I've done? I feel like this is, I mean, what do you mean? Now I feel like I'm answering an SAT test. You will be likely given an address to pick up your tickets. It's a lingerie shop in Hollywood. You walk in, you tell them what you're here for. The staff walk to the back and they come out with your invite on a silver platter. You have now wasted approximately two business days of energy to get this invite, but maybe it's worth it.

23:25And it's all on purpose. Damon, the founder, says it's the opposite of what most club owners want. I absolutely did not want 500 people outside clamoring to get in. I love the puzzle of getting there. But it's deeper than that. it's more meaningful. This club is supposed to, it's our most basic human desires, but beautiful. The owner calls it, quote, spiritual and erotic utopia, where people of like minds and desires can have as much intimate deeds and romance as humanly possible in as many different ways as the imagination can invent. One former performer at the club says about the founder, he is like the modern day sex Jesus.

24:03I kind of feel like he sacrificed himself for the greater good of creating a culture for people that was needed, especially in a city like Los Angeles. I think that's why they call it like half pagan sex club. So Esquire states about one party's guest list. Among those confirmed are a man who owns multiple hotels in New York City, a billionaire from Moscow, several wealthy couples who have been married for more than 20 years, the producer of a number of well-known television shows, an actress with a reputable IMBD page, the 21-year-old son of a movie producer international models and a couple opening a big new store near rodeo drive according to business insider they state that the alleged celebrity guests at events include gwyneth paltrow and uh yeah yeah and they just name dropped yeah but they said allegedly and business insider said it and they have a lot more money so go sue them first right so what even the devotees are hand picked with strict guidelines.

25:01It's not just about being physically hot. One woman was picked on the spot because, quote, one woman said to me, I want to perform at Sanctum. And then I want to become a politician and then get outed in a sex scandal so that I can point out the hypocrisy in society. And they said, you're in. How do we know this? They just told the story? Okay. They do private masquerades, erotic parties, erotic theater. And some of it is very, like, it's not just eyes wide shut you know how everyone was talking about the rothschild's parties where they hunt people where they have like the animal masks on they kind of recreate those so you'll have very hot women with giant horse heads very realistic ones that are not hot and not fun they look very real and then they'll have like mary antoinette was doing the deed with her horse but that horse was a woman who dressed up as a horse with a very realistic horse head.

25:54Sometimes it's elephant heads and they'll try to stick elephant trunks in places where they probably shouldn't be stuck. And there's just like, I think it's all about, I don't know. They used to do a monthly masquerade in New York and people will fly in from all over the world for these masquerades. Damon, the club owner says that every Sanctum member has to pass an application process, run background checks, basic memberships start at$30 ,000 a year, and they have Dominus members, which is$100 ,000 a year, and they will tailor bespoke erotic requests for you. And just because you have money doesn't mean you can become a top-tier member.

26:31They only offer that level of membership to 20 people worldwide. And one of the main reasons that we actually know about Sanctum Club on a larger scale is because the founder took to Instagram previously to write, Hunter was a member of Sanctum and I canceled his membership after one party because he was a scumbag. Hunter who? Hunter Biden? Which Sanctum's former founder, this is after he sold Sanctum. He went online and said Hunter Biden was a former member. Allegedly this is what he said, not what I said so don't sue me. That is what? Yeah. Wow. He says the only reason that he would go against his own former club's rules of not outing a member is quote, posting what I did on my Instagram about Hunter Biden was me letting people know what type of behavior that he exhibited was something that upset me.

27:16I knew the consequences could be me not being part of Sanctum anymore, but I was willing to take that risk. Sanctum was bought out by a former member at this point, and they released a prompt statement. Sanctum is a private members club, and they prioritize safety and privacy of our esteemed members above all. Consequently, we neither confirm nor deny the identities of our attendees. Furthermore, we uphold a strict code of conduct, and any infringement leads to a lifetime ban. Please note that Mr. Lawner's membership has been revoked effective immediately. The previous owner? Yes, the founder.