Farewell To The Turf

[poliphilo]

My brother-in-law has finally found a taker for my mother's last working racehorse. No-one wanted to buy it, no-one wanted it as a gift- which isn't surprising really because it was useless. The new owner (who isn't the cat's meat man but a show jumper) settled for a sweetener of £200 to take it off our hands.

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[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

That must be a huge relief.

And £200 is very reasonable. You'd have had to pay that for the hunt to come out and shoot it... (Being a softie, I had my last horse put to sleep by vet's injection and disposed of by cremation - it cost me over £500).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It is.

£200 is about a sixth of what it cost to keep the horse in training for a month.