The 2023 NSBA Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale broke several records on Friday evening, generating the largest graduate purse in the sale’s history. That same purse that will be available to sale graduates the next two years at the Breeders Championship Futurity, which is held in conjunction with the NSBA World Championship Show each August.
The NSBA Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale is a limited-entry consignment sale open to yearlings enrolled in the NSBA Breeders Championship Futurity or NSBA Color Breeders Championship Futurity.
Created in 2013, the sale brings together a variety of yearlings bred by the country’s top breeders to a market of owners and exhibitors in search of quality prospects, creating the premier marketplace for young western and hunter horses. Proceeds from each annual sale are used to fund a purse exclusively held for sale graduates. Sale graduates are then eligible to compete for the purse at the Breeders Championship Futurity in their two- or three-year-old year, in addition to the more than $450,000 in earnings available annually to horses enrolled in the Breeders Championship Futurity and Color Breeders Championship Futurity.
Expanding for 2023
Each year, a limited number of consignments are accepted on a first-received basis. 2023 marks the first year that consignors on the waitlist had the option of placing their yearlings in a supplemental online auction hosted by Pro Horse Services LLC. The yearlings listed in the online auction receive all benefits of consigning in the NSBA Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale, including eligibility to participate in the Sale Graduate Program as a two- or three-year-old.
Sale Coordinator Bill Kaven had this to say about offering the online supplement auction, “We’ve experienced a growing number of consignments that are normally turned away each year and we wanted to provide those members an opportunity to market their yearlings as well. We are excited to offer this supplemental online option for 15 yearlings that were not included in the first 110 consignments. We hope that this will allow buyers another opportunity to purchase a yearling that will be eligible for the Sale Graduate Program”.
Miles Upon Milestones
Both the live and supplemental sale were a huge success. 112 yearlings sold between the in-person auction and the online supplement for over $2.1 million dollars, resulting in a graduate purse estimated to be a record-breaking $217,473. The overall average of horses sold was $19,039.
History continued to be made with the fall of the hammer on Hip #100 Cool Mahogany. The 2022 colt, consigned by Knapp Quarter Horse Farms LLC, sold for a record breaking $210,000. The record was previously held by Always Seymour, a 2014 gelding by One Hot Krymsun and out of Shes Always The Talk, that sold for $203,000 in 2015.
Highest Selling Colt
Hip # 100 Cool Mahogany
RL Best Of Sudden x Cool Krymsun Lady
January 6, 2022 Bay Colt
Consigned by Knapp Quarter Horse Farms LLC
Purchased by Starland Ranch
$210,000.00
Highest Selling Mare
Hip #6 Southern N Fabulous
Its A Southern Thing x Im Fabulously Hot
March 19, 2022 Bay Filly
Consigned by Meghan Tierney
Purchased by John Paulazzi
$65,000.00
Highest Selling Gelding
Hip #104 Knappin On The Grid
RL Best Of Sudden x Cool Krymsun Lady
February 13, 2022 Sorrel Gelding
Consigned by Knapp Quarter Horse Farms
Purchased by Byers & Truesdell
$80,000.00
Highest Selling Online Supplement
Hip #203 Waitin
Wait A Darn Minute x Time Is Of An Asset
March 28, 2022 Sorrel Gelding
Consigned by Rebecca Edward
Purchased by Natoshia M Kelly
$20,000.00
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