The Waggoner Ranch Complete Dispersal, held on October 30, in Weatherford, Texas, was noteworthy in a number of ways:

*The catalog of 220 horses, with the exception of High Brow Cat and Smart Aristocrat, represented the complete breeding band and performance string of Waggoner Ranch, the all-time leading breeder of cutting horse money earners. Jack and Susan Waggoner, married for 18 years, bred the earners of more than $10 million.

*As a court ordered dispersal, consequent to divorce proceedings between the Waggoners, all horses were sold  without reserve and regardless of condition at the time of sale, including six that were off-site with serious medical conditions.

*Total sales of $4,190,900, with an average of $19,385 on the 216 head of on-site horses (excluding a miniature horse), are encouraging predictors, in a recovering economy, of a healthy market for well-bred cutting horses.

While all of the Waggoner sale horses were out of strong dam lines, only 84 of them were by well proven sires, including 57 sired by High Brow Cat. The majority of the horses were sired by young Waggoner-bred stallions with no (or a limited number of) offspring of performance age.

Horses that sold for $50,000 or more:

Aristo Katz – $280,000
   2000 mare (Smart Aristocrat x Katz)
   Buyer – Jerry & Vicki Durant
Katz Have More Fun – $150,000
   2007 mare (Dual Pep x Aristo Katz)
   Buyer – Glade Knight   
That Catomine – $127,000
   2005 mare (High Brow Cat x That Smarts)
   Buyer – Kristen Galyean
Cats Red Feather – $120,000
   1998 stallion (High Brow Cat x Smart Misty Dawn)
   Buyer – Carlos Deleu
Purdy Aristocrat – $108,000
   1996 mare (Smart Aristocrat x Purdy Pistol)
   Buyer – Alvin Fults
Big Cat In Cowtown – $90,000
   2007 stallion (High Brow Cat x Shady Lil Aristocrat)
   Buyer – Glade Knight
One Smartcat – $58,000
   1996 stallion (High Brow Cat x Sweet Lil Lena)
   Buyer – Laura Alpern
Cat T Masterson – $55,000
   2001 stallion (High Brow Cat x Pretty Lena Chick)
   Buyer – A. Silva
That Smarts Cat – $52,000
   2010 filly (High Brow Cat x That Smarts)
   Buyer – Scott Purdin 
Milord Risto – $50,000
   2007 stallion (Smart Aristocrat x Rose Marie Merada)
   Buyer – Jeremy & Candace Barwick 
Shady Lil Aristcrat – $50,000
   2000 mare (Smart Aristocrat x Shady Little Cat)
   Buyer – Chuck Drake

High selling weanling at $52,000
That Smarts Cat – sorrel filly
High Brow Cat x That Smarts, Smart Little Lena
Buyer – Scott Purdin

31 weanlings, including one being treated with Banamine at the time of sale because of colic symptoms , averaged $16,290. Eleven were sired by High Brow Cat, including eight of the ten highest selling weanlings, which averaged $32,300.

High selling yearling at $41,000
Pepto Katz – sorrel mare
Peptoboonsmal x Aristo Katz, Smart Aristocrat
Buyer – Jack Waggoner

24 yearlings averaged $16,692. The top 10 high selling yearlings averaged $28,200, including six sired by High Brow Cat and three sired by Peptoboonsmal.

High selling two-year-old at $32,000
Pretty One – sorrel colt
Pretty Boy Cat x Purdy Aristocrat, Smart Aristocrat
Buyer – Don Stark

33 two-year-olds, including two sired by High Brow Cat, averaged $12,127; the top 10 averaged $21,650.

High-selling 3-year-old at $150,000
Katz Have More Fun – chestnut mare
Dual Pep x Aristo Kratz, Smart Aristocrat
In training with Clint Allen and paid into the NCHA Futurity
Buyer – Glade Knight

22 three-year-olds averaged $24,745, including four sired by High Brow Cat. The top 10 high selling yearlings averaged $45,720.

High-selling 4-year-old at $43,000
Cats Greystone – gray stallion
High Brow Cat x Aristolcrat, Smart Aristocrat
An NCHA money earner trained by Matt Gaines
Buyer – Jeremy and Candace Barwick

25 four-year-olds sold for an average of $16,488; the top 10 sold for an average of $30,150.