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Navaho Trailers Open 4 Open Campdraft was Mark Buttsworth riding A Little Turpulence Q-67552 for owner Don Williams
REFERENCE : NUTRIEN AND SELECT SIRES • PHOTOS BY : JO THIEME PHOTOGRAPHY
The 2023 Nutrien Masters Sale completed yesterday afternoon with some very happy buyers taking away some high-quality open horses that they will be able to take straight to a competition . This is the benefit of purchasing in the open horse market , and there have been horses sold over the last two days that we will be excited to follow their new owners ' journey and see them back next year for the Graduates draft .
Top price of the sale was a first for any of the Nutrien Sales , with a gelding outselling the mares and the stallion on offer . The quality of the breeding in this sale was deep and we are sure that the new owners will be rewarded with success on their purchase .
With horses still selling over the next few days , at the end of the event , we sold 81 of the 112 lots offered with a 72.32 % clearance , gross is currently at $ 2,042,500 and the average price is $ 25,216.05 .
Considering the economic climate and downturn of the cattle market , the Nutrien Team are pleased with the result and support of the sale . In our 2nd year of this concept , this Premier Open Age performance horse sale has very similar results to the first year and we believe it will only grow stronger from here .
The Top price Gelding and top of the sale sold for $ 90,000 was Lot 119 RED HOT METAL Q-93629 , who lived up to his name and would make owner Serge Rolland a very happy vendor . A fully trained cutting gelding who is a multiple aged event finalist and winner of the 2023 NCHA Limited Open Derby , is by the METALLIC CAT sire HEAVY METAL and out of a DOCS FRECKLES OAK mare in LADY SO SMART , whose dam was LADY IN RED .
An exciting sale for the top price mare of the sale for $ 82,000 was Lot 109 CONDALISA SMOOTH who was sold to Pat & Liz Cleaver from Nimmitabel , NSW .
Vendors Paige Nancarrow and Callum Moore couldn ’ t wipe the smile of their faces ! This 5yo mare is by SMOOTH AS A CAT out of the HAZELWOOD CONMAN mare KEMMIS CONDALISA ACRES .
Only a few lots apart , Lot 104 BELLA GATO Q-90186 sold for $ 80,000 , on account of the Poole family to Kareela Grazing Company from Springsure in QLD . She is a 6yo mare by STYLIN CAT out of a DOCS SPINIFEX MARE in SPECIAL T SPIN .
AQHA NOVEMBER / DECEMBER ISSUE 2023