WOMAN ASKS COURT TO LASSO HORSE CASE.(Business)

Byline: Cailin Brown Business writer

A woman who bid $285,000 in August to buy a horse at the Fasig Tipton yearling sale in Saratoga Springs says she was misled when Brushwood Stables of Pennsylvania sold her an injured horse.

Georgia Hofmann of Florida asked the state Supreme Court in Albany County last week to stop an arbitration case between herself and Elizabeth Moran of Brushwood Stables. Hofmann instead wants her case to be handled in the courts.

Moran's attorney on Wednesday asked that the request to stop the arbitration be heard in a federal court because the parties involved are located in several states.

The clash between Hofmann …