The New Journey..... Partnerships, Horses, and More Help.....

Part One


Sometime during the summer I learned that supposedly one of my grandson's had saved up his money and bought into a partnership with BG on a horse for his mother. I remember being puzzled at a couple of things when I heard this. Why would MD get into any kind of deal with BG knowing he was trying to get a horse from me under fraudulent circumstances? What kind of money could we talking about if one of my grandson's had save it up? AND what horse did BG have that MD would want to be partners on? Nothing about this made sense to me. Maybe that's why I shoved it to the back of my mind like pretty much everything else because I was working on the lawsuit.

I really did shove pretty much everything on to the back burner. The normal work I'd do around here in the spring and summer got put on hold. We did no breeding and I did very little work with the horses, other than riding Legs to chill at the start of each day. Other than turnouts, farrier visits and worming, etc the must do things, my time was devoted to this lawsuit.

There were occasional distractions. I had someone wanting to come from Georgia to see geldings. I had a local woman looking for a horse who came by too. There were inquiries for breeding but mostly I just did lawsuit stuff. Sometimes those "other things" did lead to helping me with the lawsuit though.

When the woman was planning on coming from Georgia I took Percy, Tag and Louie to my friend's arena to be sure they were comfortable there. Since I couldn't count on good weather I figured that was the best way to assure I had someplace we could ride these horses. That had happened in the early spring and I'd decided something while working with those horses then.

It was impossible to work with them and not think about how trained they weren't, when BG claimed each horse had 16 months of training on them. I realized working with my green green horses, they really were my best witnesses to what BG had not done. Anyone who really knew horses should be able to dispute BG's claims. Even though training is subjective, 120 days, at most, versus 16 months should be pretty obvious to a professional. How I was going to accomplish this, I didn't really know but I was convinced the horses were an important part of my evidence.

Because I planned to include the horses themselves and their lack of training in my evidence, I knew I needed to maintain the integrity of that evidence. It would be important to have them as close to where they had been at the time BG quit training them as possible. To assure that I made the decision I would not work any of those horses BG claimed to have trained except Legs, of course. If I put any time on them that would muddy the waters as to what had been accomplished by BG and make the horses look more trained than he had actually done. The best thing to do to preserve the evidence was to do nothing with those horses.

The weather had not been cooperating so I really had done little, if any work, with most of them since I quit hauling horses to BG's. The week or two of work I had done was not going to make up for all the months and months of training each horse had not received. Nor was it enough time to deliberately sabotage a horse so I wouldn't open to such an accusation. I was confident the little work I had done would not interfere with my plans for these horses as evidence as long as they stayed as they were to this point.

When I devised this plan, I hadn't really thought about how long it would take to get to the point in the process where these horses were evaluated by a suitable expert so I hadn't thought about how long it would be before I could resume working these horses either. The weather was so bad and I was so consumed by getting my evidence in order, just in case, letting these horses just hang out for these many months seemed reasonable.

Considering that each of these horses had developed issues from the little amount of time BG did put into them, I thought it would be good for them to get some time off anyway but we will talk about those issues at a later time. For now, it's just important to know that I had made the decision these horses would speak for themselves as to how much training they had. How that process affected my business will be a post for another day.

By this time I really didn't leave my computer much except to go to the barn when needed. I went to Daffodil meetings. I showed at two horse shows and I managed two horse shows. Other than that I didn't leave home for much of anything. Once the lawsuit was inevitable the law library was added to my list of things to do away from home and there was a doctor's appointment or two to deal with my developing intestinal issues.

There were other horse functions I was invited to during this time but I was still pretty gun shy about going places with horse people I didn't know because of the rumors flying around. With this thing consuming most of my waking hours, the odds I could go through a whole day without talking about it really seemed to be unreasonable. I didn't want to go someplace where what I had to say might get back to BG and WF. I was still very much protecting my case.

I did take a break every now and then but they were usually only to meet a friend for a brief lunch. The exception to that was the 4th of July. We were invited to a party at my friend's barn. I had been trying to make it a point to attend their functions over the last couple of years because there were people in her group that are friends of mine. Now, I just really needed the break.

With the number of people I knew in this barn, I figured it would be a safe place to relax and think about horses instead of lawsuit and if we did end up talking about the lawsuit, that would be ok too because I could trust these people to be supportive of me. I was not worried about information leaking back in this group.

Earlier in the year when I had brought Louie to this arena I had met a neighbor who was also there visiting. He had been smitten with Louie despite the horse's obvious issues and we'd talked enough for me to be quite comfortable. I had also run into him at the Daffodil Schooling Show and we'd talked more then. He and his wife were among the people I was looking forward to seeing at this 4th of July party.

As it turned out the man was out of town on business but his wife and I struck up a conversation. We talked all kinds of things horses and before you know it, I was talking about the lawsuit. She, and others at the party, were very interested in the details of the case but she particularly asked me lots of legal questions some I was prepared for and others not.

She was most interested in the past of BG and WF. Her thoughts were with behavior like this they must have done such things before. Even if they hadn't be caught at them, the odds were they didn't conduct their business within the parameters of the law. Those things were all important aspects of credibility. Before long she volunteered to help me find some of the answers I didn't know.

Luckily for me it turns out I had stumbled across another person who just happened to have the knowledge and resources to assist me in this case. She was not a paralegal but did work in a law office, a really big law office, and she knew enough to be a great resource for me. I agreed I would send her an email with pertinent information about the case. She planned to do some checking for me.

I sent off that email as promised as soon as I got home. We emailed back and the woman did some of the legwork finding information in the public records about past business practices of BG and WF. She also looked over the court documents I was working on and asked questions about the additional angles I was trying to explore.

Telling me my legal papers were much clearer than many of the things that cross her desk, she was great for my confidence. Just talking the details of the case over with her helped me discover new pieces I hadn't yet realized.

Before you know it, I knew BG and WF did not have business licenses in this state for either their boarding business or their boxer breeding business despite the fact the law required them to do so. I also knew that BG had been arrested on an out of state warrant. The facility was not in WF's name but that of her mother, which I figured would be the case. I knew it was supposed to be WF's when the mother passed.

In addition it was confirmed that WF had quit claimed a house to her son the previous fall. I knew about the house that had been signed over to her son but I hadn't thought about what it looked like in terms of this case. Was it just coincidence or had it been to protect assets just in case their plan backfired on them and I was successful in suing them? The only assets available to lien was her horse. Would I be willing to do that?

All of these things put together with what I already had provided more angles to utilize in exposing BG and WF. This new information combined with what I knew gave me the final pieces for my requests of the court, not just on Admission and Interrogatories, but in requests for documents as well. BG and WF better brace themselves, and their lawyer, well, she better be prepared for the buzz saw that was about to chop that case of hers to smithereens.

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

Exposing the Contradictions and the Lies......

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