CSU gears up for Legends of Ranching sale
The Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale promises to last a springtime highlight at Colorado State University (CSU) inwards belatedly April, when 81 American Quarter Horses – both promising immature horses as well as proven older horses – volition last offered for sale.
The horses come upward from 24 consignors, including unopen to of the nation’s best-known Western Equus caballus ranches.
The sale volition laid out at 1.30pm on Saturday, Apr 27, at the B.W. Pickett Equine Center on the CSU Foothills Campus inwards Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale is unique.
The 2- as well as 3-year-olds inwards the sale – a amount of twoscore horses – choose been started yesteryear students inwards the CSU Equine Sciences Program amongst faculty guidance.
The sale caps a trademark educational computer programme that gives students inwards CSU’s renowned Equine Sciences Program the chance to educate well-bred immature horses, taking the animals from barely halter-broken to working calmly nether saddle.
Forty-one older, experienced horses likewise volition last offered for sale.
Last spring, the Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale generated to a greater extent than than $US330,000 inwards proceeds, according to records. The average sale toll for all horses inwards 2012 was $US5376.
The average for immature horses trained yesteryear CSU students was merely over $US4000, according to sale records. And the average toll for aged horses was $US7424.
During the 2012 Legends of Ranching sale, 2 horses tied every bit high-sellers, bringing $US18,500 each: Sparkling Rendition, a 3-year-old dark mare consigned yesteryear Wagonhound Land as well as Livestock, sired yesteryear Wimpys Little Step, as well as out of Shiney Miss Hickory; as well as WR Cal Pepper, a 4-year-old buckskin gelding consigned yesteryear Wood Ranch, sired yesteryear BP Smart Little Pep as well as out of Cal Beauty.
“We’re proud of the marketplace seat that the Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale occupies. Through 8 years of difficult work, planning as well as careful execution, this sale continues to construct on a reputation of respect, where practiced horses convey company prices,” said Dr Jerry Black, director of both the CSU Equine Sciences Program as well as the CSU Equine Reproduction Laboratory.
“However, what actually matters amongst this sale is non what the horses bring, but what the students learn. While everyone may speak nearly averages as well as high-sellers, the existent value is inwards the hands-on education.”
Students operate for nearly a amount academic yr inwards Equus caballus grooming laboratories that Pb upward to sale. They invariably enjoin that they larn every bit much every bit their equine charges – as well as that the sense gives them a new-found honour for horses as well as the grooming process.
Equine students non alone educate nearly one-half of the horses auctioned, but likewise invention as well as receive out most aspects of the sale.
Legends of Ranching reflects the experiential learning provided inwards the CSU Equine Sciences Program, an approach meant to aid laid upward students for success inwards the various Equus caballus industry.
The manufacture has an economical touching on of nearly $US102 billion each yr inwards the the States economy, according to the American Horse Council.
“Our consignors are supportive of the educational seem of this sale. In fact, they are adamant that it last a business office of the process,” said Gary Carpenter, manufacture outreach as well as liaison director. “Those who choose stayed amongst us sympathize that, although nosotros volition produce everything nosotros tin give the axe to sell their horses for overstep prices, pupil instruction comes first.”
Auctioneers Jeff Tebow as well as Justin Holmburg, along amongst announcer Kevin Meyer, volition staff the sale. Proceeds are separate amid sale costs, consignors as well as the CSU Equine Sciences Program.
The 2013 Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale volition last business office of a particular weekend at Colorado State University.
Starting at 4pm Friday, Apr 26, the CSU Equine Reproduction Laboratory volition celebrate the grand re-opening of its research, teaching as well as clinical service flagship facility. The facility was destroyed yesteryear burn downwardly inwards 2011. The re-opening volition include brief remarks, guided tours as well as refreshments.
“These 2 events stand upward for the rigid continuum of equine programs at CSU,” Black said. “We offering the real best undergraduate equine training, the instruction of graduate students as well as veterinarians who are critical to the Equus caballus industry, inquiry that drives the industry, and, of course, the aid of horses through our Veterinary Teaching Hospital as well as Equine Reproduction Lab. CSU does it all, as well as we’re proud to showcase this operate on Apr 26 as well as 27.”
GREY STUFF
Consignors to the 2013 Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale
Abraham Equine
Atwood Quarter Horses
Bar Rock-n-Bean
Bartlett Ranches
Pete Becker Ranch
Burnett Ranches, LLC (6666)
Cowan Select Horses, LLC
Crofoot Ranches, LLP
Diamond-McNabb Ranch Horses
Gould Ranch Cattle Company
Hanging H Ranch
Haythorn Ranch Co.
KeSa Quarter Horses
Kurtz Ranch
Mantz Creek Horses
Purina Mills
Rocking G Ranch
Saunders Ranch
Silver Spur Ranches
Singleton Ranches
T-Cross Ranches
Valley Oak Ranch
Wagonhound Land & Livestock, LLC
Wood Ranch
Schedule of events
CSU Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale
B.W. Pickett Equine Center, 735 S. Overland Trail, Fort Collins, Colo.
• Friday, Apr 26: Consigned horses available for viewing
• Friday, Apr 26, 2-3:30 p.m.: Roping Equus caballus practice
• Friday, Apr 26, iv p.m.: Grand re-opening of the CSU Equine Reproduction Center, merely northward of the B.W. Pickett Equine Center
• Saturday, Apr 27, ix a.m. to noon: Sale Equus caballus preview
• Noon Saturday, Apr 27: Special showing of “Horse Sense,” a documentary celluloid featuring CSU equine programs
• Saturday, Apr 27, 1:30 p.m.: Legends of Ranching sale begins
• Lunch volition last available as well as catered yesteryear the CSU Meat Judging Team
• For sale information, see the CSU Equine Sciences website, http://equinescience.colostate.edu
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