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Trainer tricked doctor into buying lame show horse for $130K: suit

A top Manhattan surgeon is suing her son’s trainer and stables, claiming they duped her into buying a lame show horse for $130,000.

Mount Sinai Hospital Dr. Christina Weltz says her 14-year-old son Oliver Ritter’s longtime trainer, Aisha Ali-Duyck, of Stony Hill Stables in the Hamptons, convinced her last December to buy a horse named Vigo for jumping competitions.

But Ali-Duyck withheld a veterinary report describing Vigo’s lame right leg and a chronic muscle disease called “shivers,” claims Weltz’s suit, filed in Manhattan Civil Court.

Ali-Duyck receives a commission on horse sales and had earned a 10 percent cut for the purchase of Ritter’s first steed, the suit says.

In response, Ali-Duyck, who said she left the stables in April to move out West, insisted that Vigo had a “clean bill of health.”

He was injured after Weltz bought him when he kicked his stable and broke a small bone in his leg, she maintained.

An attorney for the stables declined to comment.