The New Journey........... Looking at BG's Accounting ..... a Little Talk about Board.......

Part One


As confusing as those statements by BG were, the real piece of work is his accounting sheet. Most of the questionable things on that sheet are not obvious, except to me, but I was pretty sure the practices used to come up with this accounting sheet would not be condoned by the court.

At the top of the paperwork BG made a statement about Reflection that really didn't make much sense just like his statements in the emails. The amount of time he claimed the horse was in training was all wrong and he also claimed the horse didn't "count" but then he said "the below is at 150 days or 5 months which is the max." So which was it? Was the horse's board and training included in his figures or wasn't it?

That statement of 5 months does fit that reference point the man seems to have had in his mind from the emails. The fact it is cross referenced here has some bearing even if I didn't know what. It was up to me to discover it or figure out a way to utilize it.

Putting that aside, the very first thing that jumped out at me when Dave brought this paperwork home was that charge for a full care stall showing up each month through May 2009. The full care stall BG was referring to was for my horse living in a pen. Even if I had agreed to pay board for that horse he'd kept there "for his convenience" (his words at the time), the monthly charge for a pen should have been $225 not $325.

I had evidence to prove that $225 is what he charges for a pen by way of receipts for another client for horse board in a pen there. I also had pictures of different horses of mine and others actually living IN a pen in the arena at the time. Included in my exhibits would also be pictures of the full care stalls by way of comparison so the court could see why there would be the differences in the charges. Not to mention why would anyone agree to pay $325 for a horse to live in that pen compared to the stalls available at that price. I know I wouldn't. At some point I was hoping the court could see my logic about that.

I was also prepared to show why it didn't make sense that board was a term of our contract. I had asked for it to be included but was denied that by WF. She said she couldn't give up the income. She did agree I could take money I had paid for training of Reflection and apply it to board, then adjust the training charges against the price of Storm to cover the extra days of training for Reflection. When I did my accounting, I made sure I added in that training even though it began before our contract because that is what we'd decided would be done.

Then there was the question, Why would I pay for board if I didn't have to? My husband was out of a job and we were barely making ends meet. I could prove that I had been forced to use my credit card to keep Reflection there as long as I did.

I had receipts and the corresponding hay receipts I had paid for their hay with notations on the receipts the hay was for them. Between those receipts and my cancelled checks and the adjustment of training to board, I had proof I had paid all 9 months of board for Reflection.

There's just no way I would have put out that money for board if board was available to me under the terms of our contract. It just didn't make sense when I have twenty some horses to feed etc on a limited income that could go down even more when Dave's unemployment ran out.

If I hadn't thought getting Reflection fixed was super important to getting my breeding farm some recognition that horse would never have been with BG in the first place. I knew I couldn't afford that board but thought it would fix Reflection's problem in just a couple of months. If I could get this horse into the ring it would have been worth that cost but there was no way I would have paid a dime of board if I could have had it used against the purchase price of Storm.

Heck, at this time my daughter was even paying my show fees. That's how broke I was. I hoped the court would be able to understand how using my operating cash and my credit card emergency money didn't make any sense if I could have used board against the contract. Hopefully that information would help the court question BG's charges for board. All I needed was a question in their minds about this.

In addition, BG actually charged me for more time than the horse was there, living in a pen. A horse was not there continually until the mares came home from Boulder Knolls which was April 6. Up until that time, the horse staying in the pen was there on and off when BD had some particular thing he thought he needed to work on. There was an open slot in my horse trailer to accommodate that horse coming home (although I think I did not factor that open slot when figuring my numbers of horses worked after the first of the year because by then I couldn't sort out when a horse stayed and it didn't)

BG justified his charges by stating that he was keeping a pen available for me full time but that was not because of my wishes, it was for him. It wasn't until I brought those mares home that I asked BG if I could count on a horse being there for the few weeks it was going to take to get another stall built. (I have blog posts to corroborate that as well as witnesses)

This amount for board isn't enough to really affect the totals for BG with his $38,000 worth of charges. It comes to a total of under $3000 on BG's accounting. The actual amount for a pen for the time actually used would have probably been more like $1000 or so. What's important is how it fits into the picture of the discrepancies from BG.

BG charged me after the fact for something I had been told was "for his convenience" and "there would be no charge." Then he not only charged me but he charged me more than he charges his regular customers AND he charged me for more time that it was actually used. All of this would have to tell the court something. Wouldn't you think?

AND this is just my first exception to BG's accounting sheet. What do you think that says for the rest of it?

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

BG's Accounting......... Perspective on a Credit.......

This picture is Scandalous with Dandy. He was such a cute sassy baby. Just look at that attitude. LOL



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