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It will keep his value up only as long as he doesn’t go back to her. I 100% believe if he goes back to her, he will immediately crash as a stallion, as in people buying breedings or getting foals off Burnell, or foals that were produced past the time when he’s back in her hands.
Your last paragraph is just speculation, you don’t know if she would have crashed, you just don’t know. Simple as that. They acted at the time because the risk to lose the opportunity vs. see what happens over time just didn’t out weigh it, so they acted. When I think of the many who were screwed over by Jill and her breedings that were not honored, I just think they must be ever so greatful to Ashland. I think it’s a shame that you can’t at least see that benefit and that they attempted to help those who were innocent in the whole equation.
Also helping to pay off her depts isn’t necessarily going to help her all that much as she has so many convictions against her, all it’s going to do is help out MORE innocent victims from the whole Burnell ordeal.
This is the problem seen over and over again in these type of abuse/neglect situations. On one side we say let her sink, crash and burn and good riddence to her, but it’s not like other businesses where there are inanimate objects that cannot suffer. So then there is the other side of the equation; we have to act on the best interest of those horses that are currently being affected not the imaginary ones that could be. This unfortunately and most often condtradicts the first thought…
There is no right answer. I for one am glad they acted. However it looks to you, and the others on this board. I choose the scenario that occured any day over the scenario of him being left to wilt away with Jills reputation, and the one that would keep him out of the breeding shed.[/QUOTE]
Had Ashland farm thought of their future and securing redwine, they would have devalued him by not breeding him and allowing him to produce foals. They could have said. We didn’t get one single breeding and due to that he’s only worth this much. The demand of redwine creates his price.
I have zero doubt Jill would have crashed and burned. Who in there right mind would put biological matter processed by her in their mares, after seeing that photo. Raise your hand if you’d allow semen from that house near your mare? I’m not sure about you but even third world breeding farms don’t have dog poop and dead chickens, and complete filth in their breeding farm. No one needs fancy, super high tech, but I do think cleanliness is an expectation.
I really think you need to understand that if they paid her bills it is equivalent to paying her. I have no doubt the bills she incurred and they paid off were sufficiently high enough to start going after her assets. The biggest one is redwine. That land has little value, those broodmares have little value, that used travel trailer had little value, her used cars have little value, the junkyard has little value, a fire sale of the youngsters she had was little value, aloha, and romantic star had little value, but forcing the sale of redwine would have meant people got paid.
You are supporting a crook. You are either appreciating the value of redwine or you are making a terrible investment and breeding to a horse whose offspring will be worthless because no honest buyer will get involved.
Come on say to yourself I am benefiting Jill Burnell. I am buying goods from a known animal abuser, and a farm whose actions are sketchy at best.
innocents get screwed, stallions get defamed, farms get crushed. I guess I’d just rather try to look at the best of a very crappy situation.
