{"id":6334,"date":"2010-12-05T21:36:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2010-12-06T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T05:48:21","slug":"the-art-of-horse-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=6334","title":{"rendered":"The art of horse sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/RemedyForSweets.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Curly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6337\" title=\"Curly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Curly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>The horse world and the art world have a lot in common, in relation to the economy, and brisk sales at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/04\/arts\/design\/04artbasel.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=art%20basel%202010&amp;st=cse\">Art Basel<\/a>, which concluded today in Miami Beach, could foreshadow strong sales at the NCHA Futurity, this coming week in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Art Basel annually attracts buyers of contemporary art from around the world, just as the NCHA Futurity Sales attract performance horse buyers and breeders.<\/p>\n<p>The World Finals session (formerly called the Mixed Sale), held on Friday, December 4, included the gamut from weanlings through seasoned show horses.<\/p>\n<p>It did not, however, include the majority of consigned 3-year-olds that have already been shown or are competing in the NCHA Futurity. Those horses are featured for the first time in a separate sale &#8211; the NCHA Futurity 3-Year-Old Sale, to be held on Wednesday, December 9.<\/p>\n<p>As a stand alone sale, without prominent 3-year-olds, as in the past, the World Finals session cannot be compared to previous sales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you consider that we did not include the three-year-olds in this session, the sale was actually up from last year,&#8221; said Jim Ware, pedigree expert and &#8220;voice&#8221; of Western Bloodstock at the sales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was really our only mixed sale. Every other sale that we conduct this week is specialized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sale averaged $5,000 on 153 head for 84% completed sales. The high sellers were two of four 4-year-old &#8220;genetic identical twins&#8221; to Smart Little Lena. They were consigned by Smart Little Lena Clone, LLC, and brought $28,000 and $27,000. The other two &#8220;twins&#8221; were sterile and sold for $3,000 and $2,400. They went to four separate buyers.<\/p>\n<p>The sales resume on Tuesday, December 7 at 9:00 a.m. with the NCHA Futurity Cutting Horse Sale, followed by the Western Bloodstock Invitational Yearling Sale at 5:00.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete schedule of sale sessions, which continue daily through December 11, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernbloodstock.com\">www.westernbloodstock.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horse world and the art world have a lot in common, in relation to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}