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Awesome Autumn topped the Dec. 8 NCHA Futurity Sales with a price tag of $200,000. • Photo by Kelsey Pecsek

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Broodmares Lead Preferred Breeders Sale Session II

Broodmares were in high demand at the second session of the Western Bloodstock National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity Preferred Breeders Sale, where three of the top four sellers were breeding stock. Hip No. 4078, Awesome Autumn, was the day’s highest seller when the hammer fell at $200,000 for the 2004 black mare, who was […]

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Select Yearling Sale & Gala Goes out With a Bang

After five years of successful, classy events, the Western Bloodstock Select Yearling Sale & Gala has come to an end. In its final year, the highest percentage of completed sales (88 percent) and the $57,714 average were evidence of the quality horseflesh that walked through the ring. When Hip No. 35, Nu Metallic Lace, entered […]

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Six-figure Sales Highlight Session I of NCHA Futurity 2-Year-Old Sale

With 130 2-year-old prospects catalogued in the first session of the Western Bloodstock NCHA Futurity 2-Year-Old Sale, Dec. 5 offered a full day of horse shopping in the Watt Arena at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The first day of the Futurity Sales was highlighted by the high-dollar purchase of CR […]

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Blood Runs Deep at NRHA Futurity Select Yearling Sale

Cam Essick’s Pacific Range Ranch is known for its high-caliber broodmares, and that reputation was confirmed Dec. 2 when the hammer fell at $61,000 for NRHA/Markel Futurity Select Yearling Sale highest-seller Hip No. 3052, Loveya To Love Me. A yearling bay filly, Loveya To Love Me is by Equi-Stat Elite $1 Million Sire Gunnatrashya and […]

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Sparky Jac Dun It Brings Top Dollar in OKC

This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Futurity Prospect Sale during the NRHA/Markel Futurity Sales in Oklahoma City. Sparky Jac Dun It celebrated the milestone as the session’s highest seller. Passing through the sale ring as Hip No. 2017, Sparky Jac Dun It garnered an $81,000 bid for consignor Muehlstaetter Performance Horses. The 2-year-old […]

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Chic With Guns & Son Top NRHA/Markel Futurity Marketplace Sale

The first session of the three-day National Reining Horse Association/Markel Futurity Sales – the Marketplace Sale – saw many yearlings and broodmares pass through the sale ring, but Chic With Guns topped them all as the highest seller. Her 2016 colt brought the highest price among yearlings. Chic With Guns, a 2008 gray mare (Smart […]

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Legacy Reining Sales Bring Reiners to Aubrey, Texas

During the Legacy Reining Sales this year, big crowds made high bids on well-bred prospects and proven performers. The sale, held at Cardinal Training Center in Aubrey, Texas, Oct. 20-21, is a mainstay each year for reiners and other Western performance industry members.

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Buckskin Colts Bring Top Dollar in Cowtown

During the first National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales held in Fort Worth, Texas, flashy horses with solid pedigrees proved most valuable. Managed this year by Western Bloodstock, the sales took place Oct. 13-14.

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A Rising Star

Her dam wasn’t purchased for any reason other than because she was a cutting-bred mare. She wasn’t bred to excel in any particular discipline. Her foray into the breeding world was a last-minute back-up plan. And yet Myo Starlight has quickly become a rising star, finishing 2016 as the No. 1 dam of reining horses while also producing money-earners in the reined cow horse arena.

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Cowgirl N Bronze Topped Marketplace at Ardmore Sale

CowgirlNBronze Christian Lybbert aboard Cowgirl N Bronze, the high seller at $36,000. An unseasonably cool morning provided the backdrop for the start of the Marketplace at Ardmore Performance Horse Sale, held April 22 in Hardy Murphy Coliseum in Ardmore, Oklahoma. But, it didn’t take long for the good set of horses to heat things up.