The track hadn’t been resurfaced since it opened in 2006, Mongeluzzi alleged in the lawsuit. And the tragic fact is that Harrah’s - rather than making the track safer, rather than taking the complaints seriously - ignored them and didn’t do anything about it.”

These complaints were documented in emails letters. “These complaints came from many, many drivers over a period of years. “The complaints included that it was like going from a hard surface, hard pack, to actually like being on the beach, and being in deep sand, and that the horses would lose their footing,” Mongeluzzi said. 17, 2013, crash - that the track was dangerously unsafe, said attorney Bob Mongeluzzi, who represents Coletta’s parents in a 2014 negligence lawsuit they filed in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Horse trainers, harness drivers, and the president of the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association had complained for years - before Coletta’s Nov. The trial starts this week in a negligence lawsuit filed by the family of a South Jersey harness driver who nearly died in a 2013 crash at Harrah’s Philadelphia in Chester.Īnthony Coletta was left paralyzed and permanently brain damaged after he was thrown from his sulky - the two-wheeled vehicle harnessed to a horse - and trampled by a horse in a chain-reaction wreck his attorney blamed on poor track conditions.

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