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TOP 10 BUYERS
Buyer
#Purchased
Total
TM Ranch
2
$705,000
Judd Kearl - Agent
17
$674,400
Margarito Espinoza
3
$655,000
Alex Castaneda
35
$273,400
Mickey W. Tiner
1
$240,000
Jerry Deville - Runaway Racing
4
$154,700
Scott & Monica Jones
1
$150,000
Homar Garza
7
$149,500
Simmons Racing
3
$122,000
Jorge Carmona
2
$91,000
The 43rd annual Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders’ Association Yearling Sale was held Aug. 1-3 at the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, Louisiana. The three-day sale registered record numbers, saw a new all-time high sale topper, and had seven yearlings sell for six figures.
Gross sales reached $7,605,200 for 448 horses sold and marks the highest receipts in LQHBA sale history, topping last year’s record number by a solid 15% when 461 head sold for $6,616,100.
Preliminary sale results report that the 2019 average of $16,976 was an 18% increase from $14,352 at the 2018 sale; and that the median increased nearly 10% from $8,200 in 2018 to $9,000 this year.
TM Ranch, the leading buyer of the sale, purchased the LQHBA all-time sale topper for $605,000 in Hip #340, Son Of A Rogue (Jet Black Patriot-Miss Jess Rogue, Mr Jess Perry),
a price that is nearly three times more than the previous record for the sale of $210,00 set in 2018. Consigned by Triple M Farms LLC, Robi- cheaux Ranch Inc. Agent, the sorrel colt is a full brother to stakes winner Jet Black Rogue and a half-brother to four additional stakes winners and four stakes placers. Son Of A Rogue is by Jet Black Patriot, sire of over $12.2 million, and out of stakes winner Miss Jess Rogue.
The second-highest seller at $550,000 was Hip #195, A Real Train (BP Wagon Train-A Real Tornado, Streakin La Jolla). Consigned by Stable- wood Farm, Robicheaux Ranch Inc. Agent, the brown colt was purchased by Margarito Espinoza. A Real Train is by multiple stakes winner/first- crop sire BP Wagon Train, who was the leading sire by sale average, and out of multiple Graded stakes finalist A Real Tornado.
Bruce Salard, Executive Director of LQHBA
TOP 10 CONSIGNORS/AGENTS
Consignor/Agent
#Sold
Total
Robicheaux Ranch, Inc., Agent for Triple M Farms, LLC
4
$741,000
Robicheaux Ranch, Inc., Agent for Stablewood Farm
6
$597,200
Robicheaux Ranch, Inc., Agent
18
$459,200
Grant Farms, LLC
24
$446,300
Tate Farms, Agent
26
$437,400
Spring Hill Farms
14
$388,900
Robicheaux Ranch, Inc., Agent for Bennie & Terry Jeter
1
$240,000
Roger Daly, Agent
13
$163,900
J/B Racing
13
$156,400
Robicheaux Ranch, Inc., Agent for William E. Smith
1
$150,000
TOP 10 LEADING SIRES
Sire
#Sold
Total
Jet Black Patriot
26
$902,500
Heza Fast Dash
32
$882,400
Apollitical Blood
22
$847,400
Jess Louisiana Blue
32
$678,500
Freighttrain B
39
$655,400
BP Wagon Train
4
$567,400
Sir Runaway Dash
30
$489,100
One Sweet Jess
20
$385,900
Five Bar Cartel
19
$268,000
Open Me A Corona
10
$216,700
TOP 10 LEADING SIRES BY AVERAGE
Sire
#Sold
Average
BP Wagon Train
4
$141,850
Apollitical Blood
22
$38,518
Jet Black Patriot
26
$34,712
Heza Fast Dash
32
$27,575
Open Me A Corona
10
$21,670
Jess Louisiana Blue
32
$21,203
One Sweet Jess
20
$19,295
Freighttrain B
39
$16,805
Sir Runaway Dash
30
$16,303
Whathaveigottado
2
$16,000
Brian Rigby & Brennan Rigby
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