My friend is not happy and neither is her mare, who is all torn up.
She sent her mare off to a breeder/trainer in the next state over who she thought had a good reputation.
The problem arose when she found out by a third party yestarday that the man did not have decent facilites to be breeding or training outside horses. Apparently he had sent her pictures of his training and breeding farm that he conveniently borrowed from somewhere off the internet.
His real place consisted of two open stalls in the field, just three 2 X 4's high, and then an open field where all the other horses ran together. Her horse decided a week penned up was enough and finally broke out,
getting herself beaten up by the others. This was of course not the plan of daily care that was discussed but she found out too little too late. She said it wasn't a bad place, just an inadequate place for what this man was falsey advertising. He had absolutely NO facilites and no business offering training and breeding with a set up like that. She got the mare back today, (with all her money too) and she is going to be fine but has no way of knowing if she in fact was bred or not at the moment.
Before you send your horse out to a trainer or breeder, be really sure they have the actual facilities that they claim. It's worth it to ask around.
She sent her mare off to a breeder/trainer in the next state over who she thought had a good reputation.
The problem arose when she found out by a third party yestarday that the man did not have decent facilites to be breeding or training outside horses. Apparently he had sent her pictures of his training and breeding farm that he conveniently borrowed from somewhere off the internet.
His real place consisted of two open stalls in the field, just three 2 X 4's high, and then an open field where all the other horses ran together. Her horse decided a week penned up was enough and finally broke out,
getting herself beaten up by the others. This was of course not the plan of daily care that was discussed but she found out too little too late. She said it wasn't a bad place, just an inadequate place for what this man was falsey advertising. He had absolutely NO facilites and no business offering training and breeding with a set up like that. She got the mare back today, (with all her money too) and she is going to be fine but has no way of knowing if she in fact was bred or not at the moment.
Before you send your horse out to a trainer or breeder, be really sure they have the actual facilities that they claim. It's worth it to ask around.