Uncinched: The Unfiltered Horse Podcast
Sep 17, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 10 segments
Let's Chat! You know we love to talk... **What happens when something is very, very wrong behind closed doors?** In this first ever Real World…
All right, let's set the scene.
It's October 2025, and a woman is preparing to take over leasing a horse property called Gold Horse Stables in Ohio.
She's cleaning up the facility, getting ready for horses, clients, shows and clinics, and then she makes a grim discovery inside the covered round pen.
Four horses dead.
Skeletal remains preserved and a whole lot of questions.
What follows becomes one of the most disturbing stories to come out of American horse industry history in the recent years.
So what the hell happened at Pure Gold Stables?
Before we get too far into this episode, again, we want to make one thing very clear.
This is an active criminal case.
The person allegedly responsible for what we are discussing today, Heather Berkmeyer, has bled not guilty, and she has not been convicted of these allegations at the time of the release of this episode.
We're going to talk about information that has been publicly reported at this point in time, including court and investigative information reported by news outlets, which does not show the defense's evidence either.
We're going to explain what has been reported, what investigators allege, and we can explain from an equine perspective what's kind of going on and what is still unknown.
We're not here to decide guilty or innocence of anyone within this.
We're here to talk about the case as it has been presented at the time of the creation of this episode.
We're also going to talk about the horses and some really uncomfortable questions it raises about our industry.
All right, let's set the scene.
It's October 2025, and a woman is preparing to take over leasing a horse property called Gold Horse Stables in Ohio.
She's cleaning up the facility, getting ready for horses, clients, shows and clinics, and then she makes a grim discovery inside the covered round pen.
Four horses dead.
Skeletal remains preserved and a whole lot of questions.
What follows becomes one of the most disturbing stories to come out of American horse industry history in the recent years.
So what the hell happened at Pure Gold Stables?
Before we get too far into this episode, again, we want to make one thing very clear.
This is an active criminal case.
The person allegedly responsible for what we are discussing today, Heather Berkmeyer, has bled not guilty, and she has not been convicted of these allegations at the time of the release of this episode.
We're going to talk about information that has been publicly reported at this point in time, including court and investigative information reported by news outlets, which does not show the defense's evidence either.
We're going to explain what has been reported, what investigators allege, and we can explain from an equine perspective what's kind of going on and what is still unknown.
We're not here to decide guilty or innocence of anyone within this.
We're here to talk about the case as it has been presented at the time of the creation of this episode.
We're also going to talk about the horses and some really uncomfortable questions it raises about our industry.
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