I've been looking for another grey standardbred on and off for a while now - as I eventually want to do harness pairs with my current gelding Red (see http://thechroniclesofinthered.blogspot.com/) ... However, when I friend of mine sent me the link to a 3 year old grey standy gelding for sale, I immediately jumped on the email and fired away some questions and asked for a piccy if one was available (it was 9:30pm and I didn't want to wake anyone up, hehe, so email it was).
The reply came back that he was indeed still available and a few piccies were attached:
He was apparently broken to both cart and saddle, trialed but never raced , and was very quiet. After a phone call and some back and forth emails, I said I was more than happy to take him on and set to organising his transport. (Wow, don't the prices between companies vary, for travelling the same distance!) The best quote was $275, the most expensive was $600 ..... I mean really, how can there that much variance in pricing?!
Anyway, I settled on a company I liked and booked him on.... After a series of misunderstandings between everyone involved, poor Huey missed the truck and was re-booked for the next week (I was so excited prior to that..).. It just so happened a friend of mine was happy to go down to Sydney to pick him up for me so that I didn't have to wait as long for his arrival - so once again, I was excited!!
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