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Rich Banca

Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's Stable Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's Stable
Official Count: Fire Kills 24 Horses In Franklin Lakes Trainer's Stable Rich Banca of Franklin Lakes had insurance on the Orange County, N.Y. barn where a fire this past weekend killed two dozen horses, but it was likely the owners of each of the victims didn't. “It was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Banca told The Times Herald-Record. One horse fled the fire, then inexplicably returned to the Mount Hope Training Center stable and was killed with the others, said Banca, who trains harness racers who run at the Meadowlands, Yonkers Raceway and elsewhere. Nearly a dozen companies responded to the 3 a.m. fire Saturday after a center employee …