Zee Im Smooth sold for $225,000 in the Select Yearling Sale • Courtesy of Western BloodstockThe 2015 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity Sales 1002-lotted catalog of horses was the sale’s largest since 2010. While the overall average of $21,260 was under 2014’s all-time record of $27,696, it was just shy of the 2013 NCHA Futurity Sales average of $21,323 and nearly $7,000 more per head than in 2010.
In 2014, the National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) Celebration of Champions moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and in 2016, the show will feature a new event. The Celebration, which includes a derby, World Championship classes and the World’s Greatest Horseman competition, is scheduled for Feb. 12-20, 2016, and will host the inaugural Winter Premier Sale on its final day.
Docs High Flyin Cat was the highest seller at $22,000.The Marketplace at Ardmore’s Nov. 7 sale played host to a good sized crowd on a sunny Saturday at the Hardy Murphy Coliseum in Ardmore, Oklahoma. In addition to the sale offering dominated by show horses, many came to buy part of history with purchases from Dick Pieper’s Tack Room Collection, which included bits, spurs, saddles and assorted gear acquired by this internationally recognized horseman during a storied career as an expert trainer, fierce competitor and respected judge in the performance horse industry.
Hip No. 101, TRR Spoking Pep, with Brazos Robert • Photo courtesy of Return to the Remuda SaleThe Return to the Remuda Sale, held at the historic Four Sixes Ranch in Guthrie, Texas, Oct. 10, had a million-dollar sale day for the second year in a row. The annual autumn sale is produced in partnership between the Four Sixes Ranch, Pitchfork Land & Cattle Co., Tongue River Ranch and Beggs Cattle Co. This year, W.T. Waggoner Estate and Wagonhound Land and Livestock also consigned horses to the sale.
Tarin Rice showed CR Tuff Lucy on cattle while the mare sold for $600,000.When the first horse through the ring sold for $85,000, it was a good sign for the inaugural Center Ranch Production Sale on Oct. 10. Roughly five hours later, having seen the bidding reach $600,000 for CR Tuff Lucy, the hammer fell on the last horse, wrapping up a successful event for the Centerville, Texas, ranch.
Shining CD Light was the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales highest seller at $100,000.The National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales spanned three days in Reno, Nevada, Oct. 1-3, and included four sessions of cow horse prospects, proven performers and broodmares. The final session, the Select Yearling and Broodmare Sale, resulted in the highest seller, as Shining CD Light brought a final bid of $100,000.
Boon San Baby • Photo by Jim ArnoldIt was the end of an era and the beginning of a new one, when the final hammer fell on Tuesday, Sept. 22, for Alice Walton’s Rocking W Ranch Absolute Dispersal, produced by Western Bloodstock Ltd. at Rocking W Ranch in Millsap, Texas. Eighty-nine horses and embryos, the culmination of five decades of Walton’s selective breeding, sold for $3,230,500, with an average of $36,298. Seven horses sold for $100,000 or more; five brought $200,000 or more.
Applause filled the air as Boon San left the sale ring after Bobby Patton's high bid of $500,000.While the sale results are not yet official, one sure result of the Walton’s Rocking W Ranch Absolute Dispersal Sale is that there is a new player in the game. Fort Worth, Texas, native Bobby Patton entered the cutting horse industry in a big way, paying the sale’s top price of $500,000 for Boon San.
The upcoming Triangle Sales Fall Horse Sale, Oct. 29-31, will introduce a new schedule of events and some first-ever opportunities for buyers at the long-established Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center sale site in Shawnee, Oklahome. Pre-sale competitions will be a new inclusion introduced at the fall sale, as well as a new annual sale schedule, which will now feature three sales during the year rather than five.
2014 NRHA/Markel Insurance Futurity Sales highest seller Buena Spook • QHN photoThe National Reining Horse Association (NRHA)/Markel Insurance Futurity Sale consignment deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 1. The NRHA/Markel Insurance Futurity Sales are held with the largest reining event in the world – the NRHA Futurity. New for 2015, NRHA is adding a Production section to the Marketplace Sale on Thursday, Dec. 3.
