I know it's several weeks ago now but I wanted to report on our great sale of our home bred gelding Blaengwawr Colorado at this years wpcs/brightwells fayre oaks sale.
There was much interest outside the ring from a line of producers to private homes and he even had a little queue waiting at his pen on arrival. We prepared the ponies ready at the stables prior to entering the sale pens and I must say he looked a million bucks.
Due to my lateness of doing paperwork we had a very late lot on the Sunday afternoon, but that did not seem to bother the interested parties.
We had a reserve of 750 on him for the sale as you have to be realistic, if he d sold for that any ne of the top dogs would ve had him but he just went up and up....a little... He was knocked down to a lovely family from the midlands for the grand sum of 2000 gns
His sale was the highest price B gelding in the day sales only to be surpassed by waxwing Archimedes who sold in the high flyer evening on Saturday night. He s also in the top 30 of all sales out of 500 odd ponies. Thrilled to bits to have achieved that with our lovely boy. I look forward to seeing him out in the showring in the next season or two.
We also sold a section A mare but a very true to current market prices, she was nt in the same league as Colorado, but a very quiet genuine mare, she had one bid for 250. To people I know from back down in the south Wales valleys, so I know she will be loved. I don't think they could quite believe that they had her at that price. I liked the pony but for me she just want good enough for my Section A herd. We had to be realistic and there's always the choice to withdraw, but I knew them and so it was meant to be.
A classic sale I thought, quality sold well, the market spoke, can't remember the average but it was up on last year.