PROGENY from some of the country's top campdrafters and cutters – and some of the best performance horses themselves – will be among the quality horses on offer in the 2018 Landmark Supreme Toowoomba Horse Sale.
The sale and campdraft, held on May 5 and 6 at the Toowomba Showgrounds, will attract Australia's top breeders, trainers, and competitors with more than 450 runs in campdrafts and challenges and more than 300 registered Australian Stock Horses and Quarter Horses catalogued in the sale.
The sale will include 131 yearlings, 38 broodmares and 135 ridden horses, including campdraft winners and proven sires.
The event kicks off with the first rounds of the challenges and novice, open, masters and supreme campdrafts, on Thursday, May 3, with the challenge finals and sale pre-work on the following day.
The sale is run over two days, with the yearlings and broodmares on May 5, followed by the finals for each draft, and the champion of champions draft, then the ridden horse sale beginning at 8am on May 6.
Among the most represented sires in the sale are Acres Destiny, with 11 progeny; Catskills, the sire of 12 horses, and Hazelwood Conman, who has 10 horses in the sale.
RS Chisum has seven horses in the sale and Seligman Spin has nine progeny on offer.
Landmark Equine is expecting another strong sale following last year’s record-setting sale.
The 207 lots sold for a record sale gross of $1,342,500, and a Conman daughter set a new sale record for led yearling fillies at $31,000.
The ridden section reached $27,000 for Acres Destiny mare Crystal Acres, offered by Hugh Miles, Tamworth, NSW and bought by Yasmin Vidler, Thistledoo, Roma.
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Landmark Supreme sale co-ordinator Simon Booth, Toowoomba, said the sale included vendors were coming form Qld, NSW and Victoria.
The 2019 sale incentives total $75,000 in cash and prizes, with the two-year-old Landmark challenge worth $20,000, the Landmark Supreme five years and under draft worth $12,000, and $8000 in cash for the masters campdraft.
“It’s becoming a premier sale for campdrafting and cutting horses, and it’s one of the biggest sales in Qld,” Mr Booth said.
“There’s demand from all over Australia and last year we even sold a Quarter Horse to America.
“A lot of professional trainers, and some top breeders, sell through this sale, but there’s a big price range so there’s something for everybody.
“If you can’t afford to pay $50,000 for a ridden horse you can buy a $2000 yearling.”