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Location: sunny california | so I am getting tired of running around and thinking of just going to a production sale. I found some yearlings at a sale coming up, but a freind is saying the yearlings are last years weanlings that no saled. I do see some of them in last years catalog but the results do not show a no sale with a high bid. the horse is simply omitted from the results. How do they choose what gets held over for next years sale? |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | injured, didn't get the price they had hoped for |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | wyoming barrel racer - 2018-08-22 3:48 PM injured, didn't get the price they had hoped for
ya i was thinking the same thing. I just would really like to know what the price was that was not good enough! If the yearling I want was no saled at a pretty high price, I don't want to pay for flights and hotel etc for something that is just too dang high. |
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Location: Texas! | kwanatha - 2018-08-22 4:56 PM
wyoming barrel racer - 2018-08-22 3:48 PM injured, didn't get the price they had hoped for
ya i was thinking the same thing. I just would really like to know what the price was that was not good enough! If the yearling I want was no saled at a pretty high price, I don't want to pay for flights and hotel etc for something that is just too dang high.
You could always call and inquire about what the expect the colt to bring? Might give you a round about idea of their expectations. |
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| Oh my goodness lol
I know for a fact copper springs ranch just bought a yearling to sale next ear as a weanling at their production sale. Don’t for a second think your getting the “unsellables” your getting horses they are fitting for sale! |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | runfastturnsmooth - 2018-08-22 7:27 PM Oh my goodness lol I know for a fact copper springs ranch just bought a yearling to sale next ear as a weanling at their production sale. Don’t for a second think your getting the “unsellables” your getting horses they are fitting for sale!
Maybe you have that backwards? A weanling to sale as a yearling would be correct. |
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Location: Montana | What a story! Sounds like it turned out very well eventually.
Throughbreds are a strange world. If you think you can lose money in Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds are a whole nurther world of potential financial risk.
I have a TB stud. Now, I wasn't looking for one . . . but this horse's conformation is just too good to ignore.
So this TB stud ends up on a little cattle ranch in eastern MT. He's well-cared for, even spoiled. Cuz he deserves to be. But, still, this is not exactly 3 Chimneys around here.
His sire is Seattle Slew who cost $17K and made $1.2 million. That's the upside of TBs. His stud fee ranged from $800K to $300K. My horse's dam won over a half million.
He should have made a ton on the track, right. Nope. $28K in his first race, he got sick, and never ran worth a hoot after that.
And that started his downward spiral toward Montana of all places . . . and Paint and QH mares. And frankly, I was nuts to buy an old TB stud. Holy cow, what a great way to end up with a nasty, hard keeping old wreck of a horse. Most people are smarter and he could have ended up in a bad, bad spot.
It's just a very strange world, Thoroughbreds. |
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