NRCHA Futurity Sales

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Western Bloodstock Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales® hit record prices, again.

By Katie Frank

COURTESY WESTERN BLOODSTOCK LLC

Hip 2076, American Dollars, was the high-selling yearling.

Despite being late October, temperatures weren’t the only thing rising at Will Rogers Equestrian Center during the National Reined Cow Horse Association’s Western Bloodstock LTD. Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales®. Two days of sales saw a 30 percent increase in price from last year.

Topping off an already successful sale, the night culminated with the high-selling 2-year-old from the 2020 sale, Zak 34, winning the coveted Snaffle Bit Futurity Open Championship with Justin Wright.

The Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales consisted of the Performance Horse Sale and Select 2-Year-Old Sale, as well as Session I of the Select Yearling and Broodmare Sale on Friday. There was a 33 percent increase over 2020 with 93 percent completed sales for an average of $23,279.

Desires Cricket, bred to Reyzin The Cash, sold for $105,000 to Cindy Perez of Weatherford, Texas. Alan Chappell consigned the 2015 mare, by Dual Rey and out of Playguns Desire by Playgun. She is a full sister to 2010 National Cutting Horse Association Super Stakes Open Champion Reys Desire, who has lifetime earnings of $409,603.

All seven horses in the Snaffle Bit Futurity Sales Performance Horse Session sold for an average of $28,714. The highselling horse was Metallic Look (Metallic Cat x Smart Lookin High Brow x High Brow Hickory), a 2013 gelding who sold to James and Deborah Lohrman of San Juan Capistrano, California, for $55,000.

Session II of the Select Yearling and Broodmare Sale was held Saturday and, according to Western Bloodstock LTD, saw a 28 percent increase over last year with an average of $26,262.

American Dollars lead Session II, selling for $80,000 to Cooper Smith of Whitesboro, Texas. Pro Fit Equine, as Agent for Steve and Alicia Billman, consigned the Reyzin The Cash-bred stallion, who is out of Trizana, by Taris Catalyst, an NRCHA money earner and producer of nine money earners. Tarizana’s dam, Sparkles Rosezana by Zan Parr Bar, won the 1985 National Reining Horse Association Open Futurity.

For the complete catalog and sale results, visit westernbloodstock.net.

Desires Cricket, bred to Reyzin The Cash, was the high selling broodmare.