Mundubbera trainer Leah Read and her $20,000 top-priced gelding, Marnies Token Acres with buyer Tony Dawson of Warra.
A WHOPPING $1.34 million of horse flesh changed hands over a mammoth 11.5 hours of selling at the 40th Anniversary Dalby Australian Stock Horse Sale.
Held at the Dalby Showgrounds on Sunday, the sale reached a top price of $30,000, twice, for a stallion and a mare.
Exclusive marketing agent GDL sold a total of 183 ridden Australian Stock Horses for a $7324 average, which represented a clearance rate of 73 per cent.
GDL spokesman Harvey Weyman-Jones said the result was at the higher end of his expectations and reaffirmed the Dalby sale as the country’s premier Australian Stock Horse fixture.
- A full report will be published in the December 11 edition of Queensland Country Life.
