SPRING FEVER FARM ALERT
If you are considering having your horse trained by Diana Beuchert, taking lessons from Diana Beuchert, boarding your horse with Diana Beuchert, buying a horse from Diana Beuchert, or consigning a horse for sale to Diana Beuchert, please read this entire website first. This website is a chronicle of my experience with Spring Fever Farm in Mount Airy, MD. I found myself in a position where I had to sell my Friesian, Zeke, after I had owned him for less than a year. I sent him to Diana Beuchert, at Spring Fever Farm, for further training while he was for sale; I asked her to teach him the Spanish Walk and the bow. Very quickly, she decided that she wanted to buy him and then proceeded to put me through hell. .
Please don't stop here...it gets much
more interesting...There are approximately 38 emails from her, none of which are
extremely long. If you do not read her last email, you are missing the
best part of this website :=) Next
Note: Unfortunately, the guestbook was not allowing the website to come up for people, so I was forced to delete it. And, unfortunately, Diana was filling the entire book with nasty personal comments and material hardly relevant to the story. I may reinstate the book in the future, but for now feel free to email me with your comments. My email address is on nearly every page of this website.
Diana's comments in the guestbook, which she assumed I did not want people to view, consisted of rantings concerning my having left my buyer in the lurch and not wanting people to know about it (along with nasty personal comments). When someone buys a horse it is THEIR responsibility to ship the horse. The previous owner is no longer responsible for shipment. However, on the day that I sold Zeke, I arranged shipment as a courtesy to my buyer and to my boy, whom I wanted off her property ASAP because I was worried about him being there at this point. I was on the telephone at midnight making arrangements to fit him into a current shipment. I also arranged for the health certificate to be done on short notice. I made numerous calls to the shipper, the driver and the buyer making sure everything would go smoothly. On the day of shipment, I realized that things might not go as smoothly if I were to attempt to arrange things with Diana so I asked my buyer to contact her and the shipper to let them know that she would be handling arrangements from that point. All that was left for my buyer to do was to make/receive a few telephone calls. The health certificate was already at the farm with Zeke and everything was in order. I also stayed in contact with my buyer throughout the day in case she needed any help. So if this is leaving my buyer "in the lurch," well then I am guilty as charged.
I also find it interesting that this was the only issue Diana had with this website. The shipment of the horse, in fact, is the LEAST relevant part of the story and barely deserves attention, in my opinion. As for a response to the rest of the situation and her behavior, her only response is to offer a set of (what we can assume is a horse's) x-rays she has to anyone who is interested.