Chapter 1 cont.

After they put August Rain into his stall Amy and Ty and Sapphire went up to the house and sat down at the kitchen table with Amy's grandfather Jack Barlett. Jack served them lunch and then left them to talk amongst themselves. Ty and Amy and Sapphire started to talk about Sapphire's uncle. It turned out that Sapphire's uncle was a rich friend of Jack's and he had know him since they were young boys growing up in the country in upstate New York. They had lost touch after college. Jack had never known that he had got married and had a daughter. It turns out that after college Sapphire's uncle had gone into business for himself as an owner of racehorses. He lost his business after getting mixed up the wrong crowd. He was accused of animal abuse and was found guilty of it. After he was found guilty he lost all his money in bad investments and had to sell of his horses one by one. August Rain was the only one he could afford to keep. He decided to give August Rain to his niece Sapphire.