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You remember my post of a couple weeks ago about Daisy, the grey Arab mare
who went missing on a trail ride at Calero Park...

No good news, unfortunately, but no excessively bad news either--she hasn't
been found dead in the bushes, tangled in her tack.

Her owners have concluded that the case has gone from "lost" to "stolen." 
This conclusion is admittedly based on hearsay, speculation, and somewhat
weak circumstantial evidence (IMHO), but is a still a possibility.  Midge
told me her suspicions are based on the following:

 - Daisy disappeared very quickly, even given the rugged country where
   lost herself.  The open space areas are surrounded by ranches and 
   small acreages.  She was last seen (and tracked) on private ranch land 
   headed toward a populated area.  Despite much searching and contact of
   local residents and authorities, no one has seen her.
 - One of the old-time ranch families in the area is well-known for being
   unfriendly, unneighborly, and generally oafish.  Yeah, I know being
   jerks is not a crime, but they refused permission for either the owners
   or the sheriff's deputies to search for Daisy on their land.  What do
   they have to hide??? (I mean, besides a missing horse?)
 - The day after the sheriff's visit, another "old time rancher" who had
   been giving much time and effort to help search saw a horse trailer 
   possibly containing a grey horse leave the oafish family's property.
   (This is the circumstantial part, as they had told the sheriff they did
   own "a couple of grey horses.")

Word is out to the auctions just in case, but Midge thinks someone is keeping
the horse.  She wishes she had gone ahead and trespassed on private land to
search the day after Daisy disappeared.  She says she might have found her. 
She won't stop looking for Daisy, but they are going to start looking for a 
new horse for Chuck.

Doesn't it just make your blood boil?

-Sallijan

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