The comment about for those in for the long haul is a true statement if I have ever heard one. You have to have good horses to produce good babies
We have been in this deal for over 20 years and intened to be till we can't physically do it anymore and then pass the herd on to the grandkids.
So it is imperative for us anyway to constantly eveluate and attempt to upgrade the breeding herd. I always hate to see folks work as hard as so many do to breed good horses (large & small farms) and then disperse them. Hopefully that will not happen with our farm as several of the grandkids have expressed interest in continuing on with them.
Alyssa, we bought lot 45 Lucky Four Dance the Tango, that is the Bond Snippet grandaughter I was talking about bred back to Mime and with a Mime colt by herside. The mare is nice, but the black & White colt is what we were really looking at. We nearly bought his daddy a couple of years ago and regret not having bought him about 10 minutes after we turned him down
J
an, sorry we bought the ones you liked, but we thought they were some of the steals of the sale. But you and Rich are always welcome to come see them and I will even cook a steak or two for all of us.
Another real steal was the WF Stepping Out Stallion at 10,000. He is a really good producer and should do well for his new owners. We have a full Bay brother to him that we turned down 20,000.00 for and have not for sale on him now days. WF See Me Shine. Both of these stallions are full brothers to Spectacular Bey who is in France now and brought 50,000.00 at the world sale a couple of years ago. Vanessa who is the Dam of all three died a couple of years ago and was one of the best mares Wind Flight/ERL farms had.
All in all a good day for the industry and in my opinion we are on our way back with good horses still bringing decent money.
I think we need to lobby Jana and Gary to get with AMHA and put on the World Sale, I for one am going to miss it this year. And then they need to do the same for AMHR LOL. They put on a good sale!!!