I was furious when similar happened to my horse, I had agreed that my friend could ride him on a hack as they knew each other well and she had ridden him before, and her friend who neither myself or my horse had ever met, would ride friend's horse. She casually mentioned later that part way...
All this talk of Jill books has got me all nostalgic for the first Pony mag I ever bought it would have been probably in the late 1970s and had a picture of a black fell (?) ponys head as it was grazing on the cover. Any idea where I could find a copy? Would love to see it again after all...
They sound a bit disorganised which makes me think they have messed up and charged for disposal twice. Sit tight and wait for the bill, make sure they send an itemised one and query it if needed. So sorry you are having to go through this after losing your horse.
Ask your vet if the total bill includes removal costs. When I had my horse put down the vet arranged it all for me and told me not to pay the disposal costs, they would pay and then invoice me, which they did and if I remember correctly for a 14.3hh to have injection and then be collected, no...
I jumped when I read this thread - my old horse was called Sultan too. I had to have him PTS in the September. In Jan the following year, he came to me in a dream, he was in a field that I had years previously rented to rest the fields he was normally on, in the background was his last field...