Horse sale pictures, October 10, 2009

[Soapweed]

Cute little cowpoke at the horse sale

Young cowpoke in action showing the abilities of a good horse

This pretty paint blew up and entertained the crowd.

Yee haw......

Going to it

A cozy couple demonstrating this horse as being gentle and broke to ride double

One of the ringmen gets to hold a baby

While the mother helps her older kids show and sell a pony.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

That cozy couple look vaguely familiar. :?

 

[Soapweed]

That cozy couple look vaguely familiar. :?

Yup.

 

[gcreekrch]

You gave me a start there Soap, I thought the cozy couple had multiplied.

So before the paint showed his true colour was he being passed off as gentle broke. If so the seller got what he had coming.

If not the horse was just backing up what the owner's sales pitch.


Glad you're back to posting pictures.

 

[Soapweed]

You gave me a start there Soap, I thought the cozy couple had multiplied.

So before the paint showed his true colour was he being passed off as gentle broke. If so the seller got what he had coming.

If not the horse was just backing up what the owner's sales pitch.


Glad you're back to posting pictures.

The paint was pitching before it even got into the ring. It was suggested to the rider that he just lead his horse on out, and the auctioneer didn't even try to sell it.

 

[Faster horses]

Ya, now that you mention it...

How did the horses sell, Soapweed?

They got along pretty good at the fall sale in Bowman, ND. in
Sept. Better than I thought they would. I found a nice black horse
and called some young guys that used to work for us and they
went over and bought that horse. Paid $4000 for him and they
are pretty happy with him. Some brought up to that, one or two
over. Of course, there were cheap ones too.

Our horseshoer sat by us and he bid on a horse and we thought, got
the bid for $2000. The auctioneer had been raising the bids at least
by $250. So we were surprised when he sold the horse for $2050.
:shock: Guess you just never know...

 

[gcreekrch]

You gave me a start there Soap, I thought the cozy couple had multiplied.

So before the paint showed his true colour was he being passed off as gentle broke. If so the seller got what he had coming.

If not the horse was just backing up what the owner's sales pitch.


Glad you're back to posting pictures.

The paint was pitching before it even got into the ring. It was suggested to the rider that he just lead his horse on out, and the auctioneer didn't even try to sell it.

Well if that was the case did you buy him privately for Brady's calvin' mount next spring? :lol:

 

[Soapweed]

The top horse brought $2800. It was a very well broke good looking four-year-old bay that had been used a lot all spring and summer. Even for that much money, the horse was probably a bargain.

I was a good boy and didn't buy a thing. :wink: Only bid on one, which was a seven-year-old gelding. The bidding had kind of stalled out at $750, and the auctioneer was asking for $800. I submitted a bid of $775 and went on up to $925. The horse ended up selling for $1100. This was a good way to get a bit of an adrenalin rush without it costing anything. :wink:

 

[Faster horses]

You are obviously well-practiced and quicker than the auctioneeer.

 

[gcreekrch]

We met a couple in 1980 who ranch, guide outfit, and raise horses not far north of us after a horse sale. A group of us had gone out for supper and the wife got telling "horse stories" on her husband.

The one I recall the best was that she had told him that he needed to cut back on the resident horse population as their grass situation was getting shorter every year. So, the husband rounded up five, three-ton loads of horses he thought he wouldn't have time to break and commandeered the neighbors to help haul them to town.

Mother stayed home.

At 2 o'clock in the morning she heard a vehicle coming into the yard and back up to the loading chute. Then another, and another, until 7 trucks had unloaded. :shock:
The husbands excuse was that horses were so cheap he just had to buy some. None of them were buy-backs. :lol:

 

[ReRun]

So are you going to hire that "Cozy Couple" back this spring? I sure miss seeing pictures of them (mostly Rena) on your posts.