Selling Horses........................Part 3

Part 1

It should have been easy from here. But that's not exactly what happened. After a bit of time had passed since we visited my friends and their Arabian horses, my friend with the colt told the stallion owner that someone had been to see her colt. From there the sh*t hit the fan.

The first indication that anything was amiss came about when the trainer of one of the earlier fillies that had been viewed called Richard saying he'd heard that the client was also shopping for a colt. He had a colt he wanted included in this search.

Richard informed this trainer that the information that the client was shopping for a Marwan colt was inaccurate. The trainer insisted he had reliable information saying it had come through channels and named this particular stallion owner.

The owner of the colt was not happy to learn that the person she thought was her friend was out "sniffing around" her sale. She had previous hunches of such behavior before and had always shrugged them off, but nothing had ever been as obvious as this so she called a couple of her friends to talk about the situation.

The colt's owner wanted to confront the stallion owner but since this deal was still pending, her friends felt that was not a good idea. It would be better just not to talk with the stallion owner about this "deal" anymore. Hopefully the colt would get sold without any interference from the stallion owner.

This time the colt's owner stuck to it and didn't discuss the original visit or any form of information about the buyer, the agent or anything else related to this possible sale of her colt. Despite repeated attempts by the stallion owner to get information, the colt's owner didn't bite...........she kept her silence.

Despite that, within a week, I was actually talking to Richard on the phone when another call came in. He told me he'd call me back in a bit and as he hung up, he said, "I wonder who's calling from _ _ _ _ _?" As I hung up the phone, my mind flashed to the answer.................the stallion owner had tracked him down despite the fact that the colt's owner had not given her enough information for her to know who he was.

When Richard called me back, he said, "You'll never guess who called me." I immediately responded the stallion owner's name. I think Richard was surprised that I'd guessed...........but something inside me just knew.

According to the stallion owner she was calling because the client's eastern agent had called her about a particular colt by her stallion. She said the agent told her to call Richard about this other colt. Then the stallion owner asked if Richard was indeed the agent on my friend's colt. to which Richard answered yes.

Yet the stallion owner proceeded not only to tell Richard what was wrong with the colt the eastern agent had inquired about but also to tell him he really should come and look at the colt she had for sale. She would stand her colt up next to his sire and he could see for himself.......

You can imagine where things went from here. My friend was not happy to hear that her stallion owner friend was now competing with her for a sale. As a matter of fact she was quite sick about the situation, feeling very betrayed by someone she considered a long term friend.

Again she called a couple of friends to tell them what had happened. One of those friends got so mad she took it upon herself to call the stallion owner and confront her. At this point, things were just heating up.

How would you feel in this situation?

To be continued..................

Part 4

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