Spies And Spells 02 - Betting Off Dead - Plot & Excerpts
I was expecting us to go into a fancy room where they paraded the horse in front of us and we held up paddles as the auctioneer rattled off the amounts like they did at the Keeneland horse sales up in Lexington. After we’d introduced ourselves to a few people, Ranger ushered everyone into the barn. As we walked past him, he handed me a clipboard. The piece of paper had a stall number, the horse’s name along with all of the stats, which were: breed, farm, lineage and any sort of awards associated with the stud from which the horse had come from. I noticed all the horses where male.The smell of old leather saddles, manure and hay sprinkled the air. There were three stalls on each side. Mick and I worked in sync. I followed what the women were doing as he mimicked what the men were doing. The men went up to the stall first. They walked in, walked to each side of the horse before starting the ritual all over, this time running a hand along each side. Each man whispered something to his wife and she not only held onto the clipboard, but she wrote something down on it.
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