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Lif,
Maybe I sounded negative.... but, I WAS there. If you ask anyone else who
attended, they'd probably have the same "negative" attitude. A "joke" was
how someone else described the auction as they were leaving.
There was one woman there who was trying to buy her OLD, OLD horse back. Mr.
Salazar bid against her. It was known amongst many of those in attendance
that she was trying to get her old horse back. This old, bay, sway backed
mare would have no use to Mr. Salazar.
The two horses held back were the choosing of Linda Leonard, the owner. I
never said Mr. Salazar held them back.
I called Mr. Salazar several times on Monday and Tuesday morning. He
promised me several times that he would fax me the names. He never did. He
even gave me his "private" phone number to call...... which I don't recall
him ever answering. Anyway, it wasn't until late Tuesday morning that Annie
Wilkins (sp?) finally read the names and reg #'s to me over the phone. I
suppose if I had a CD rom and knew the owners name... I could've gotten an
idea of what horses were there.
Anyway Lif.... who knows why he bid against several others who were willing
to give these horses a new home, hopefully for the remainder of their lives,
especially the older ones. From what we heard, he's just going to resell
them.
The barn was not far away from the other horses that were there. The barn
aisle was pretty much centrally located. There was NO! way you would not
know that she had dogs and cats there..... or that she was living there (if
she was).
Mr Salazar said the reason they were having it on Tuesday was because there
were events/rodeos (charros?) on the both the weekends before and after. He
also said he did not want to move the horses to another location for the
auction.
Another women did say she saw an ad in the "pets" section of the LA Times ONE
day. Seems if they really wanted the MOST money, they would have advertised
better to make more money!!!!!!!!
Melody
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