Hasn’t been the best of days. Been sitting in front of the computer trying to buy an in foal Broodmare from the Auctions, and didn’t manage to get one.
I have known that the auction was taking place for over a month, but thought that it started tomorrow. When I realised yesterday afternoon that it was today, I tried to make arrangements to get there. The auction is at Newmarket, about 250 miles from the farm. I not a great fan of driving and would have gone by train, but I managed to speak to a person in the Horse World who thought that he knew of an agent, who would be at the auction, and would bid for me, on any lots that I fancied. That was last night. He was to give me the details of the person this morning. I didn’t get the phone call, by the time I realised, it was to late to catch the train that I needed to get to be at the auction in time, for the main lots that I was interested in.
I was punishing myself by watching the auction live on their web cam. For sure I would have purchased one of the Horses that was of interest to me, if I had of been there or had someone to bid for me. As the Horses were selling I checked a list of the Horses that had not met their reserve. I managed to speak to one of the agents and I could go back to him to buy the Horse, but they want more money than what it is worth. Also whilst checking the list I realised that a person who I did know was at the auction. I managed to find his phone number. He did make a bid on my behalf on one lot. That went over my limit, but only by a small amount.
I do want another Broodmare. It has to be one that is in foal. Unfortunately it will be a replacement for Woody.
If I should be so lucky to only get 38 trash emails over a few days. I get hundreds a day. The largest amount are from people who use one of my email addresses as a return path for the trash that they send out. To stop them having mail returned to them for various reasons, such as email address’s that no longer exist, rejected spam emails etc they put a return address on those they send out that go to other people. My email address’s relate to various web sites and names that I have, so I really cant stop using them.