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Marshpiper said:
How many of these posts are, like you repeating gossip…it’s very sad…
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None, apart from mine. The others are all based on posts, videos or results etc. I just got told something that I thiught might explain all the weird pricing. So theres clearly gossip going on outside of HHO. And mine was prefaced with me saying I was repeating gossip and had no idea if it was true and removed about 30seconds later following fact checking.
 
To be fair if you want the public to buy you a horse for 80K then some scrutiny, speculation and discussion is reasonable. I do think she is being admirably transparent and I'm sure she accepts that people are going to wonder how she's in this position and have views on the whole concept of GFM in these circumstances.
 
Do the other shareholders not get any say in where the horse is shipped to?

Wild that her dad originally was a share holder and nothing in place to protect her. Also find it a bit odd nothing from Mary Wanless. Who knows.

Won't be donating, feel sorry for her as she's obviously very attached but just doesn't sit right with me unfortunately.
 
wills_91 said:
Wild that her dad originally was a share holder and nothing in place to protect her
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He could have protected her by not selling his shares in his daughters horse in the first place. The current owner is just doing the same thing but seems to be being painted as the bad guy. They are simply a business not a parent and maybe as well as recouping the purchase price they want to shed the large ongoing costs from their business.

Gloi said:
If Milly has had the ability to take a £15,000 horse to being a £100,000 horse I would have thought her best way forward would have been to buy another £15,000 horse and repeat the process with that experience behind her.
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She seems to have plenty of other horses anyway, some of which have been up for sale at various times. Time will tell if she is prepared to sell any of her current horses, or anything else she owns, to provide some of the funds to buy this one special horse.
 
nutjob said:
He could have protected her by not selling his shares in his daughters horse in the first place. The current owner is just doing the same thing but seems to be being painted as the bad guy. They are simply a business not a parent and maybe as well as recouping the purchase price they want to shed the large ongoing costs from their business.



She seems to have plenty of other horses anyway, some of which have been up for sale at various times. Time will tell if she is prepared to sell any of her current horses, or anything else she owns, to provide some of the funds to buy this one special horse.
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I don’t think she owns her other horses?
 
KikiDee said:
I don’t think she owns her other horses?
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She regularly posts for sale ads on her fb page, they are written as though they are her own horses and she posted this at the beginning of winter last year. She is certainly giving the impression that she owns quite a few horses and I would expect the 3 which are world class to be worth quite a bit of money.


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nutjob said:
She regularly posts for sale ads on her fb page, they are written as though they are her own horses and she posted this at the beginning of winter last year. She is certainly giving the impression that she owns quite a few horses and I would expect the 3 which are world class to be worth quite a bit of money.


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She only owns 2, she has a youngster not long sat on and her childhood pony. The rest she either just has the ride on or are with her for producing/sales livery.
 
Seems to be normal practice to crowd fund when she comes against things as it has done it before for her horses colic bill.

Aside from the valuation being wild, the openness on the GFM about setting up a poll to spend it on rugs, physio or social content ahead of a charitable donation is frankly even more wild but more fool the people donating 🙈

It doesn’t sit well with me at all.

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Matafleur said:
It all seems very bizarre. I am hearing that there is a lot more going on than there seems and that even if she finds the funds she may not be able to buy the horse.
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Its hard to know whats fact and whats rumour but for all those saying how nice she is and how transparent all of this is, I think you might be quite surprised with how this pans out in the end.
 
I'm Dun said:
Its hard to know whats fact and whats rumour but for all those saying how nice she is and how transparent all of this is, I think you might be quite surprised with how this pans out in the end.
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I can’t get my head around it. She does seem like a very beautiful rider, with the loveliest hands and he is a gorgeous horse. But he’s a huge sum of money and something doesn’t sit right. has there been a break down in communication with the share holders I wonder, why do they have no compassion for the horse or the rider? Surely if you can afford to buy into a very expensive horse and allow someone else to ride it, then you can afford to take a loss on it? After all it could break its leg in the field! The rider posted a comment to say she couldn’t even secure a 2k loan recently… why would an expensive horse be living with someone with so little means…. 🤷🏼‍♀️ and let’s be honest, all this media attention is going to cause a lot of public interest in her life, it might be positive for her and Olaf but chances are… it might go sour for her. Social media is a very odd place!!
 
ihatework said:
I’m not referring to Millie here, but rather a generalised ‘bucket’ of a particular type in the equine world.

They are the kids that have come through ponies/horses in a fairly rich (in the grand scheme of things) and heavily protected environment. They have money/facilities/equine parents - but not to the extent of the mega rich kids.
They mix on the edge of those circles though like a carrot dangling that only a tiny % will ever achieve. It’s almost easier for the poorer kids! That life is never an option so it’s just a vague dream.
These kids live in a fairly unrealistic view that if they just love their horses enough and train ethically enough and work hard that the rich owners will arrive. It. Does. Not. Happen. That. Way.

These kids then either have to behave in ways they never wanted to, or realise they aren’t cut out to make it on their own in the industry.

I have empathy for them, to a very limited extent.
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I could not agree more!
 
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greasedweasel said:
This is getting odder by the moment. The before and afters of the “starved” horses are underwhelming though?
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Without passing any judgement on the situation or the condition of specific horses as information is clearly arising and who knows what is and isn't true...

I think with top horses in high-end establishments where the costs are substantial and the value of the horses is significant, the expectation is that a very high level of care will be in place.

I haven't seen the photos so I'm only talking in general terms but I can see how there would be a substantial loss of trust if a horse in that kind of set up isn't maintaining a good condition or improving its condition. And if it's losing condition or in poor condition, I could imagine being appalled that I'd made arrangements to provide top level care for a horse and then the horse has been let down.
 
ester said:
Also, so many incidences of 'why didn't they remove it sooner'
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Condition can change quite quickly though. I was unwell for a few weeks when one of my horses was on livery with a paid rider exercising and I didn't see it for 6 weeks but had regular updates. The horse put on so much weight that I was horrified when I saw it again. Weight had been creeping up beforehand but I kept trying to encourage different management softly and some progress was made but then lost, and I'd try something new, think I'd made headway, and then it would slip again. I was hovering around changing the situation but kept thinking maybe I'd solved it and got through to rider. Coming back to a shock did it for me and I made decisions at that point.
 
This is quite possibly the most bizarre thing I’ve seen for a while.

Something didn’t sit right with me when I saw it initially, clearly from a well off family so none of it made sense. Plus the sheer amount of money she is trying to raise…it’s mental. Then I’ve just seen the Facebook page of Tyler Bradshaw and it sheds a whole new light on the situation. Still makes no sense to me though!
 
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