Ringobjingo
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Florida
I used to work for a racehorse owner. I did everything from mucking stalls to training, riding and shoeing his horses. We parted company on bad terms in February. I was trying to get the horses to the track to work, and after suffering several set backs, I finally managed to get to the track! However, created rather a scene at the track, did some yelling and screaming and finally he left his two racehorses in the care of two other trainers. But he did not fire me at this point. I worked another week or two for him, caring for his other horses at the farm.
Once his mare gave birth to a foal, he first came to the barn to see her a week later. The mare and foal were doing fine, but he wanted to do a very very silly thing of putting them out in a field with no secure fencing and generally not a safe environment for a week old foal. The foal was scared and started back towards the barn, meanwhile the mother of the foal was going mad, as he held her away from her baby. Noneltheless, I tried to advise him not to move them just yet. He started yelling at me and my wife who was there helping, and was very verbally abusive towards us both. That is when we parted company. He told me he didn't want me around anymore. So I left.
About ten days after, A neighbor told me that one horse the owner had sent to the track had broken down, and that he was blaming me for it! I had not even seen the horse since the day at the track. I know that he was stating this to him, and even when I went to receive my final pay check, he told me to my face!! I also know of other people he has told this to. Later on, about two months after I left, I was already at another job a couple hundred miles away. I heard from a friend of mine who was also in contact with him, told me that the other horse he had sent to another trainer had died. Then a short while after that, I received an email from a friend of my ex-employer, of one of my business cards, defaced in pen to red "horse killer" and "drunk". I do not know if any of these cards were distributed anywhere. Theres a chance they could have been, since I left one or two on a bulletin board in the town he lives in.
ALSO, in regards to the foal, about a week after I had left, apparently she was injured - I heard that the mother who was blind in one eye, stepped on her and broke her hip or something like that, but the owner was then trying to say that was my fault!!! I think his excuse amounted to "I was not there in the middle of the night when the foal was born, and therefore she was suseptible to infection". Some of his comments are ridiculous and sound like he's desperate to find a way to blame me for his horses dying or being injured, but that is all lies. And I know of people that I would beable to get testimoies from or even subpoena to court if it came to that. I had almost let it go, until I received the email from his friend with the defaced business card. This I cannot accept. In the equine business a good reputation is a must! Now he's spreading lies about me, and I am potentially losing work.
think I have a case?!What is the name of your state?
I used to work for a racehorse owner. I did everything from mucking stalls to training, riding and shoeing his horses. We parted company on bad terms in February. I was trying to get the horses to the track to work, and after suffering several set backs, I finally managed to get to the track! However, created rather a scene at the track, did some yelling and screaming and finally he left his two racehorses in the care of two other trainers. But he did not fire me at this point. I worked another week or two for him, caring for his other horses at the farm.
Once his mare gave birth to a foal, he first came to the barn to see her a week later. The mare and foal were doing fine, but he wanted to do a very very silly thing of putting them out in a field with no secure fencing and generally not a safe environment for a week old foal. The foal was scared and started back towards the barn, meanwhile the mother of the foal was going mad, as he held her away from her baby. Noneltheless, I tried to advise him not to move them just yet. He started yelling at me and my wife who was there helping, and was very verbally abusive towards us both. That is when we parted company. He told me he didn't want me around anymore. So I left.
About ten days after, A neighbor told me that one horse the owner had sent to the track had broken down, and that he was blaming me for it! I had not even seen the horse since the day at the track. I know that he was stating this to him, and even when I went to receive my final pay check, he told me to my face!! I also know of other people he has told this to. Later on, about two months after I left, I was already at another job a couple hundred miles away. I heard from a friend of mine who was also in contact with him, told me that the other horse he had sent to another trainer had died. Then a short while after that, I received an email from a friend of my ex-employer, of one of my business cards, defaced in pen to red "horse killer" and "drunk". I do not know if any of these cards were distributed anywhere. Theres a chance they could have been, since I left one or two on a bulletin board in the town he lives in.
ALSO, in regards to the foal, about a week after I had left, apparently she was injured - I heard that the mother who was blind in one eye, stepped on her and broke her hip or something like that, but the owner was then trying to say that was my fault!!! I think his excuse amounted to "I was not there in the middle of the night when the foal was born, and therefore she was suseptible to infection". Some of his comments are ridiculous and sound like he's desperate to find a way to blame me for his horses dying or being injured, but that is all lies. And I know of people that I would beable to get testimoies from or even subpoena to court if it came to that. I had almost let it go, until I received the email from his friend with the defaced business card. This I cannot accept. In the equine business a good reputation is a must! Now he's spreading lies about me, and I am potentially losing work.
think I have a case?!What is the name of your state?
