A catalogue of 101 ridden horses, 54 mares and fillies and 47 geldings, ensures a sale offering of broad appeal on Saturday, July 8, during the last day of the Ag-Grow Emerald Field Days.
Selling Agents McCaffrey’s Australian Livestock Marketing (ALM) and GDL are delighted their feature event has again attracted a large selection of quality mounts, offering suitability across fields such as campdrafting, pleasure riding, and station stock horses.
Ken McCaffrey, McCaffrey’s ALM said the sale is one of the features of Ag-Grow, and is also Northern Australia’s biggest annual ridden stock horse sale selection.
Sale lots have been drawn from highly respected horsemen and women from the Darling Downs, Central Burnett, Western Queensland, North Queensland areas, and Central Queensland horse industry enthusiasts.
All lots will be worked out under saddle from 7am on sale morning with most of them working on a beast.
“The addition of pre-sale workouts with cattle to our program in the last couple of years has greatly benefited prospective buyers, and our vendors, to show the cattle work ability of the lots,” Mr McCaffrey said.
The Sale auction commences at 10am, following the workouts.
More than 50 sirelines are represented in the sale including: One Moore Daddy, Hazelwood Conman, Soda Bradman, Kirkby’s Stud Omaha, RS Chisum, Third Cutting, One Moore Playboy, Adios Reflect, Lyra Park Romeo’s Delight, Bonlac Hidden Acres, Macro, Cooinda’s Elfin Abstract, Kirkby’s Stud Indet, Lonesome Dove Stuntman, Diablo’s Destino, Artistic Rey, Seligman Spin, Shield Conrad, Freckles Gay Doc, Doc’s Zest, Bluey Rey, Stoneage Armstrong, Lethal Return, Boonara Tango, Belldiva Captain Jack, Boonal Jabiluka, and Pep’s Extra Stylish.
GDL Stud Stock Manager Harvey Weyman-Jones said the high percentage of return buyers annually to the sale, and historical high clearance rates have strongly endorsed the high standard of horses on offer, the genuineness of sale vendors, the professionalism of the buyer-friendly sale day presentation, and the desire of agents and vendors to ensure bidders and buyers end up with a horse that best suits their requirements, according to
“That gives us confidence to claim the sale, this year again, has a line-up of prospects suitable to a wide variety of buyers, whether they be cattle producers looking for well bred, reliable, station mustering horses, campdraft competitors or families looking for stylish, ‘good going’, quiet and quality mounts for the wife or children,” he said.
“In the last three years, horses at the sale have sold from $2,000 to $20,000, reinforcing its reputation as an attractive market place for all buyers and all budgets.”