The broke old farmer bought the dying mare for $200. Then the millionaire arrived with a sheriff-and the horse hid behind the old man like she knew exactly who had hurt her

nodded toward the battered two-horse stock trailer hitched to his Ford.

The broker folded the cash into his pocket. “You bought yourself a problem.”

Wade looked through the fence at the mare, who had lowered her head again but had not backed away from him.

“I already had plenty,” he said.

It took nearly forty minutes to get her from the pen to the trailer.continue reading …