Expert Witness:

Mr. Beck has been an expert witness and consultant to counsel with trial experience dating from 1982. Consultation often includes investigation and interviews on a confidential basis.

• Equine Consultant
• 25 Years Stallion & Broodmare Management
• Facility Design - Large and Small
• Operational Management
• Horsemanship Instruction
• Judging: Halter and Performance
• Marketing & Sales
• Appraisals
• Writing, Editing and Publishing
• Genetic or breeding consultation
• Conformation
• Taxes: hobby, for profit

Profile:

• 1978 to present: Owner of Penosa Bloodstock, an equine bloodstock agency and consulting firm. Activities include brokering and consulting in all phases of the horse industry from facility design and operations management to marketing, contract negotiations and financial and tax management. Services also include acting as an expert witness and consultant to counsel in areas such as contracts, appraisals, management practices, customs of the industry, profit motive, tax treatment of expenses and financial dealings in general.
  
• Clients have included the U.S. Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, Bank of America (California), First Interstate Bank (Arizona), The Rhulen Agency (Insurance), Monticello, NY, the Egyptian Agricultural Organization (El Zahraa Stud Cairo, Egypt), Al Badeia Farm (Cairo, Egypt), Wayne Newton Arabians (Logandale, NV), Lavely & Singer, Attorneys (Los Angeles) and Heidelberg & Associates, equine appraisers (Blanchard, OK).
  
• 1971 to 1990; Owner, Penosa Ranch, a 70 acre equine breeding facility which managed, bred, trained and showed or raced, and marketed Arabian and Thoroughbred horses.
  
• 1981 to 1984: Co-founder, officer and director of Desert Arabian Bloodstock, Inc., the first publicly owned corporation dealing with the breeding, marketing and management of Straight Egyptian Arabian horses in the United States. Initial public offering was for $4.125 million.
  
• 1967 to 1971: Manager, the Horse Improvement Program, Texas Department of Corrections, a 200 head horse breeding facility.
  

Training and Judging:

• Registered Judge in the American Horse Shows Association and the International Arabian Horse Association 1973 to 1985:
  
  • Arabians
  • American Saddlebred Horses
  • Tennessee Walking Horses
  • Quarter Horses
  • Thoroughbreds
  • Morgans
    
• Training Arabians for Halter and Performance
• Instruction in English and Western Riding and Dressage
• Instruction in Conformation and Performance Judging

Author of Articles, Magazines and Books:

• A Very Short Course in Equine Genetics, © 1978
• Conformation: Ideals, Theory and Observations, with Richard Rudish, Copyrighted by the authors
• Numerous articles and editorials appearing from 1971 through 1975 in The Journal and Arabian Horse News
• Preface to BASIC HORSEMANSHIP, English and Western, by Eleanor F. Prince and Gaydell M. Collier, Doubleday & Company, N.Y., 1974

Publisher of Articles, Magazines and Books:

• I-Tex Publishing Company, 1969 to 1990: President, co-founder
• The Raswan Index, a three volume reference on Arabian horses, limited edition, 1969
• The Arab and His Horse, 1970
• Every Horse Owners Cyclopedia, 1971
• The Raswan Index, Abridged, 1988, edited by Mr. Beck

Consultant / Expert Rates:

• $250 per hour, plus expenses

Education:

• Bachelor of Science, Animal Science, Iowa State University