"When Costello was laid off, according to Trontz, she asked to take the horse with her, and he agreed."
http://www.drf.com/news/article/109010.html
Seriously? It never occurred to him that someone recently laid off might not be a good person to sell a horse to? What did he think she was gonna do to get feed? Barter with belly button lint? I appreciate not every trainer's gonna be very well off, especially in the beginning, but I have more money than she does right now I'm gonna guess and I have the sense to know I can't afford a pleasure horse at the moment, nevermind a racehorse. Maybe she did us all a favor and got her reputation for being clueless out there before she did some actual damage to that mare or anybody else's horse.