The 2021 Western Bloodstock Cutting Horse Sale, at Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, on Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24, broke an all-time record for NCHA summertime sales with four horses each selling for over $100,000, and an overall two-day sale average of $21,328. In addition, 96% of the 112 head were[…]
Metallic Cincin, a yearling Metallic Cat stallion, topped the Rocking P Ranch Annual Production Sale for $225,000, on Friday, July 23, the first day of Western Bloodstock’s 2021 Mid-Year Cutting Horse Sale in Fort Worth. A full-brother to Metallic Curveball LTE $215,151, as well as a half-brother to Cinca Im Hot (LTE $265,969, by Spots[…]
The Absolute Reduction Sale of Fults Ranch On August 19, 2021, Alvin and Becky Fults will open a new door with The Absolute Reduction Sale of Fults Ranch, at the ranch in Amarillo, Tex. A landmark event for the cutting industry, the sale will include offspring of leading all-time living sire Metallic Cat, and feature[…]
For over four decades Milt Bradford monitored the pulse of the cutting horse industry through public auctions that saw hundreds of millions of dollars worth of horses change hands, while cutting became the world’s richest Western performance horse sport. On May 1, 2021, after a long battle with cancer, Milt passed away peacefully at his[…]
The 2020 NCHA Futurity Sales concluded on Saturday, December 12, as the new standard by which all other cutting horse sales will now be measured. Held live daily, beginning on December 7, at Will Rogers Equestrian Center in Fort Worth, and with online bidding also available, the sale sessions shattered the 2014 overall all-time record[…]
It began on Day One of the 2020 NCHA Futurity Sales, when Wood She B Magic sold in Session I of the 2-Year-Old Sale for an all-time record price of $1,050,000. By the next day, when Session II had ended, a record number of 11 horses had been sold for $100,000 or more, and the[…]
It seemed fitting. The name was Hott Attack. And he sold for $185,000 on Thursday, December 10, to top Session I of the NCHA Futurity Preferred Breeders Sale, where 92% of the offering sold for an average of $23,056, a substantial 33% increase over the same session in 2019. The sale, which featured yearlings, broodmares,[…]
The Evening Session of the 2020 NCHA Futurity Sales, on Wednesday, December 9, built on the momentum of the morning Cutting Horse Sale with 80% of the offering sold for an average increase of 25% over 2019. Watch Me Whip, an 8-year-old Playgun daughter consigned by Fazenda Barrinha Corporation, topped The Evening Session at $500,000.[…]
On Wednesday morning, December 9, the third of six days of 2020 NCHA Futurity Sales, the NCHA Futurity Cutting Horse Sale sold 88% of its total offering for an average of $33,957, showing a 13% increase over the 2019 Cutting Horse Session. The morning’s top price of $78,000, paid by Mike Rutherford Jr., Houston, Tex.,[…]
Whether live or remote, bidding was fast-paced and electric at Will Rogers Equestrian Center in Fort Worth during Session II of the NCHA Futurity 2-Year-Old Sale, on Tuesday, December 8. Session I, on Monday, had seen 70 horses sell for an average of $51,299, with an all-time record price of $1,050,000 paid for a cutting[…]