Saturday, October 18 was a banner day for the National Reined Cow Horse Association, as their 2025 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales concluded at Will Rogers Equestrian Center in Fort Worth, TX. The two-day venue, managed by Western Bloodstock, reinforced the value and popularity of American Western horseman sports, and the pride that inspires their owners and breeders.
A record 14 horses were sold for $100,000 or more during the sales, with an average of $38,691 (an increase of 22% over 2024 sales) over both days, and with an outstanding sales rate of 89%.
Mooolah Express, a sorrel yearling Reyzin The Cash filly, consigned by Beverly Servi/Servi Quarter Horses, sold in Saturday’s Select Yearling & Broodmare Session with Clinton Anderson as agent, to Michael Miola, Scottsdale, AZ, for $350,000. It was the highest price from both days, topping Friday’s record high of $260,000 for the yearling Ringwoods Roan Edge, by Third Edge.
Saturday’s Select Yearling & Broodmare Sale Session II broke the record for highest recorded average of $39,612, a sale rate of 88%, and nine horses selling for $100,000 or more, breaking the record for that number sold in one session.
Mooolah Express, by AQHA/APHA double-registered Reyzin The Cash LTE $278,381, sire of earners of $11,434,970, is out of the Metallic Cat daughter Metallic Train LTE $185,900, is an NRCHA Open Hackmore World Champion and NRCHA Open Stallion Stakes Champion, as well as the dam of four money earners of $241,596, including two major Top Ten NRCHA event finalists.
Blazze A Trail, consigned by Tracer Gilson, Agent for Loren Booth Living Trust, sold for $170,000, Saturday’s second-highest price. The sorrel yearling filly by NCHA Open Finals Champion WR This Cats Smart LTE $236,514, was purchased by RDL Investment Management LLC, Midland, TX.
Blazze A Trail is out of Shiney Nu Annie LTE $104,961, an NRCHA Open Futurity Reserve Champion and NRCHA Celebration of Champions Open Derby Champion, and the dam of earners of $565,454, including Blazze A Trail’s full siblings Annies Smart Cat LTE $141,908, NRCHA World Open Bridle Champion, NRCHA Open Hackamore Classic Champion, and NRCHA Open Stallion Stakes Bridle Spectacular Champion. NRCHA Open Hackamore Classic Champions Nu Passport LTE $125,517 and Cats Nu Shine LTE $110,028 are also full siblings to Blazze A Trail.
Winning bids of $165,000 claimed How Bout Dis and Von Playboy on Saturday, as well. Both yearlings are sired by Stevie Rey Von LTE $420,903, a leading NRCHA sire with combined NCHA and NRCHA offspring earnings of $19,953,670.
Consigned by Chappell Horse Sales, agent for Alan and Allison Chappell, How Bout Dis was purchased by Colby Lovell, Midway, TX. The red roan filly is out of Dis Cats Dynamite LTE $109,043, a WR This Cats Smart daughter and the dam of four money earners.
Bay roan colt Von Playboy, consigned by Musacci Performance Horses and purchased by Cruz Rendon, Laredo, TX, is out of Lean Irish Playgirl LTE $15,884, and is half-brother to multiple NRCHA major events finalist WR Iceman LTE $139,339, by WR This Cats Smart LTE $236,514.
Shes A Style Icon, consigned by JC Sale Fitting, agent for Kelby and Abbie Phillips, sold for $157,000 to Loren Booth, Orange Cove, CA. The red roan yearling filly, by Peptos Stylin Time out of the Smooth As A Cat daughter Shes Twice As Smooth LTE $196,569, is half-sister to earners of $656,611, including Kreyzy Horse LTE $200,129, NRCHA Celebration of Champions Open Derby Reserve Champion and NRCHA Open Hackamore Classic Bridle Spectacular Co-Resrve Champion.
For complete results from the 2025 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales, and information about the 2025 NCHA Futurity Sales and consignments, go to westernbloodstock.com.