Dismantling of Rita's empire
Live, online equine sales trot up just over $6 million
DIXON – It took Rita Crundwell 22 years and tens of millions of dollars in city funds to build her prize horse and breeding operations, prosecutors say.
It took only 2 days to sell it all, for a fraction of that amount.
Against a soundtrack of lightning-fast auction patter punctuated by the shouts of bidders, the horses, the tack they wore, the stalls they lived in, even the mats on which they stood all made their way to the auction block.
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