High-selling horse brings $17,500 with sale gross of $130,700

Fort Worth, TX A horse sale returned to the schedule during the American Paint Horse Association’s (APHA) recent Fall World Championship Paint Horse Show, held November 3-14 in Fort Worth. The Breeders’ Trust Select Sale was held on November 6 in conjunction with the Association’s second installment of their annual World Show series.

All horses consigned to the sale had to be either nominated to the APHA’s Breeders’ Trust incentive program or in foal to a Breeders’ Trust subscribed stallion. Horses were previewed prior to the sale, which was held in the West Sale Arena of Will Rogers Memorial Center. Bruce McCarty of Weatherford, Texas, was the auctioneer while Frank Holmes of Ramah, Colorado, read pedigrees.

Of the initial 48 Breeders’ Trust horses consigned, 43 went through the ring while 35 (81%) actually sold. The 2010 APHA Breeders’ Trust Select Sale grossed $130,700 with an average successful bid of $3,734.

The high-selling horse was Hip No. 48—Zippos Last Dream. The 13-year-old Quarter Horse mare in foal to APHA Breeders’ Trust stallion Scenic Rio Krymsun was consigned by Richard Estling of Reddick, Florida, and purchased for $17,500 by Spencer & Tina Wooddell of Flemington, West Virginia.

The sale catalog and complete sale results can be viewed at aphaworldshow.com/fall.

More about APHA Breeders’ Trust and the World Show series

APHA’s Breeders’ Trust program was created to help offset the cost of showing and to add value to American Paint Horses. The program pays cash dividends for points earned by nominated horses at APHA-approved events, and is designed so that everyone responsible for the success of an outstanding foal is rewarded financially: the stallion subscriber, foal nominator and horse’s owner. In 2009, the APHA Breeders’ Trust program paid out $1,140,086 to Paint Horses with performance records.

Overall, the 2010 World Championship Paint Horse Show series hosted 4,048 entries by 1,535 registered American Paint Horses. The APHA World Shows are non-qualifying events through 2011. All registered American Paint Horses are welcome. In 2011, the Summer World Championship Show will become the Youth World Championship Show; and all Open & Amateur classes will take place during the Fall World Championship Show.

Full results, class entry listings, daily news highlights, and winner photos can be found at aphaworldshow.com/fall.

More about the American Paint Horse Association

Since APHA was founded 48 years ago, it has registered nearly 1 million American Paint Horses at a rate of around 30,000 horses per year. The Association currently serves approximately 76,000 active members in 59 nations and territories. APHA works not only to record Paint Horse pedigrees, but also to preserve and promote the history, breeding, training, racing, showing, sales and enjoyment of American Paint Horses.

To learn more about APHA and becoming a member, contact the Association at (817) 834-2742 or visit apha.com.