Moody's owners day

Sunday 13/5/2012 I slept 12 hours last night.....dear me I must of been tired. At 10am I walked over to the yard, the owners day started at 10! When I got there all the owners were there walking around and looking at the yearlings. There were 20 yearlings there that Mr moody had bought with his wife Sarah. The idea of this owners day was that all the yearlings were being paraded, and if anyone wanted to buy them they could. It was very intresting seeing how it's done over here. Peter was talking and explaining everything, he said that he had bought all these himself and he doesn't have a blood stock agent. I had a program with all the breeding and their pictures. Everyone of the 20 horses were paraded. Few of them hadn't been handled much and just come in from the field last night. They all looked a picture, nice coat and filled out. In the program it had all the prices that hed paid for them.. He didn't want to make a profit, he was happy enough to sell them for the same price or even go in a syndicate with few owners. A new rule came out this year that you could have up to 20 people in a synricate. Up till now you could only have 10 people! He did explain a little bit about a trainer that got into trouble after selling a horse to an owner and after some time the horse suffered an injury. But the owner found out that someone knew of a few X-rays that had been taken when the horse was younger and he had an injury before. But no one had told the new owner. Anyway- Peter was just explaining that non of these horses had been veted or been seen by a vet and they all were sold as seen! Mr Moody had bought 50% of 5 colts off another Mr Moodie....Mr Moodie is a breeder and is a very successful man and had a successful business ! He's had many winners with Peter Moody and other trainers. But Mr Peter Moody saw few colts in the field and decided he liked 5! Moodie the breeder tends to sell his colts and keeps his mares and fillies. They've had this system for years! It works well. if no one wanted to buy these horses they would still be trained and owned by Mr Moody. They were all well behaved and it was a successful morning. Soon after it was finished we had a few drinks and a BBQ. It was lovely seeing everyone. Peter Courtney is the lorry driver for Mr Moody and he travels all over the country, racing, sales and different yards. I went up to him and asked him if I could go with him in the lorry to take these youngsters back home. So I did. Myself and Nelia went for a drive to the country about an hour and half away to take five of the colts back to Mr Moodies ( breeder) stable. Well....it was unreal. Great set up. Horses, mares foals, fields, gallops and land everywhere!! It was massive! We unloaded the five and had a walk around. It was great to see it all. We then came home but Peter ( driver) had to pick up another 5/6 to go an another yard about an hour away ( Tom the 2nd assistants dads place, he trains himself and pre trains Moody's horses). It's been a very busy day for the moody camp. When I got back at 3.30 the queen black caviar was home safe and sound in her stable!!! it's raining and very windy outside so night in for me tonight. I'm not able to load any pictures on here for some reason. But I'll sent up an album on Facebook if you'd like to see them. Chat soon!