“We were confident coming into this sale that we could hold even with last year’s results or advance them slightly, but I never imagined that we would be able to report such positive numbers,” said Jeff Tebow, general manager of Heritage Place, following the sale company’s Winter Mixed Sale of race bred Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, and Paint horses, which concluded on January 15 in Oklahoma City.

Preliminary results show gross sales on 832 Quarter Horses increased 32 percent over 2009 for a total of $8,683,250, while repurchases were down to nine percent from 14 percent in 2009. The overall average was $9,480 including repurchase, an increase of 13 percent over 2009. Four lots sold sold for six figures, while 14 lots sold for $50,000 or more.

Dashin Follies, by Strawfly Special, tied the all-time record for a Quarter Horse broodmare sold at auction with a winning bid of $875,000. The cutting horse broodmare, Meradas Little Sue also sold for $875,000, at Western Bloodstock’s NCHA Futurity Sales in 2001.

Consigned by Michael Pohl, 11-year-old Dashin Follies, dam of stakes winner PYC Paint Your Wagon (pictured), was purchased by agent Tyler Graham for Mexican-based buyers who preferred to remain anonymous. She sold with two embryos by Corona Cartel and Jet Black Patriot. Graham also purchased the second-highest selling lot, Coronita Cartel, consigned by Pohl for $250,000. Coronita Cartel is by Corona Cartel out of Dashin Follies.

The third-highest seller, at $150,000, was 5-year-old A Tempting Strawfly, by Strawfly Special, half-sister to G1 stakes winners Tempting Dash and A Tempting Dash. Consigned by Ron and Denise Van Amburgh, she sold to Vaughn and Jill Cook.