Markel Super Sires Online Auction Now Accepting All Ages
Image by Shane Rux Photography courtesy of Pro Horse Services.
Muncie, Indiana – Super Sires continues to impact the “Show Horse” world by constructing innovative programs that create a profitable economic impact for all stallion owners, mare owners and exhibitors equally. In 2024 alone, Super Sires will distribute over $225,000 in cash and prizes throughout the country, with over $1.2 Million since the inception of Super Sires, a Not for Profit, 501 C5 program that was introduced in 2013.
In 2024, Super Sires Executive Committee approached Mike and Stephanie Jennings of Professional Horse Services, for their expertise in the “Show Horse” Sale industry. With conversations over several conference calls, decisions were made regarding improvement for the sellers, as well as buyers of Super Sires offspring and mares bred to Super Sires stallions in the annual Markel Super Sires Online Auction.
NEW • The 2024 Markel Super Sires Online Auction format has been expanded to offer a marketplace for horses of all ages sired by Super Sires stallions, as well as broodmares in foal to Super Sires stallions.
Super Sires first great decision was to come into partnership with Mike and Stephanie Jennings. Mike and Stephanie align with the goals of Super Sires Executive Committee which are to serve the “Show Horse” industry in an honest and transparent way while driving to produce a sale platform that will create economic value for the breeders throughout the country.
With that being said, Professional Horse Services will host the 2024 Markel Super Sires Online Auction in which horses that are consigned will be entered in the sale to promote and sell, with a world-wide online audience, from November 16 – 19, 2024. Different than our past online sales, there will be no buyers premium incentives; we strive to assist our breeders to market their Super Sires offspring in a well-respected platform with transparency to the buyer.
- Entry Consignment Fee: $500
- Enter by October 1, 2024 For Early Promotion
- Entries Accepted Until Sale Fills
- No Sale Fee: $0
- Commission Fee: 6%
For ENTRY FORMS and more information visit the ProHorseServices.com page for the 2024 Markel Super Sires Online Auction
Super Sires continues to pursue avenues that benefit the show horse world including stallion owners, breeders, trainers, and exhibitors! Super Sires is serious about adding LTE $$$ to sire, dam, offspring and rider’s earnings/resumes…all monies earned at Super Sires events are reported to QData, NSBA and Equistat, which accurately record Life-Time Earnings (LTE) of your stallion, your mare, your offspring as well as you, the exhibitor. The value of growing documented dollars will in turn increase breeding fee and sales value to your horse, as well as speak of a rider’s resume as the LTE’s grow!
List of venues & purses where Super Sires brought Breeders and Stakes Purse $225,000 in 2024:
- Fun in the Sun, Venice Florida – $7,000+
- Arizona Sun Circuit – Scottsdale, Arizona – $20,500+
- March to the Arch – Fort Worth, Texas – $10,000+
- A Sudden Impulse Futurity – Ocala, Florida – $26,000+
- The Bluebonnet Festival – Waco, Texas – $4,400+
- Back to Berrien, Berrien Springs, Michigan – $41,000+
- The Big A – Conyers, Georgia – $16,500+
- The EMO Celebration – Las Vegas, Nevada – $10,000+
- NSBA World Show – Tulsa, Oklahoma (Booth Only)
- The Championship Show – Ocala, Florida – $7,500+
- All American Quarter Horse Congress – Columbus, Ohio – $85,000+
- AQHA World Show – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Booth Only)
Upcoming Super Sires Auctions and Noteworthy Events:
- Super Sires Stallion Service Sale – Donated stallion services will again be offered in an online sale in partnership with Champion Horse Sales. The online sale gives stallions’ exposure worldwide and certifies the process to run smoothly and fairly. Super Sires Stallion Online Auction will begin on November 16, 2024, for stallions that maintain their enrollment position in 2025.
- How it works – The first round of the Super Sires Stallion Service Auction runs from November 16 through November 30. Stallions will be offered in an AUCTION setting with the first bid beginning at 75% of the advertised stud fee. Any stallion not sold through the first-round auction will be offered in the second-round storefront at a flat rate of 60% of the advertised stud fee from December 1 through December 31. Any remaining stallions will be offered in the third-round storefront at a flat rate of 50% of the advertised stud fee through May 31.
- Follow this link for more information.
- Super Sires Markel Online Auction – Super Sires and Professional Horse Services offer a platform to market Super Sires yearlings and prospects.
- For your ease, follow this link to consign your Super Sires offspring.
- Super Sires at the All-American Quarter Horse Congress – Super Sires will award over $100,000 in cash and prizes during the All-American Quarter Horse Congress in 2024 featuring the Mid-South Equine Sports Medicine Open 3YO Western Pleasure Sales Graduate class with over $10,000 in purse money plus Super Sires Open 2YO Western Pleasure “Breeders Purse” monies with over $27,000 added! Be sure to nominate and enter you 2- & 3-Year Old’s for your chance to WIN BIG MONEY @ the Congress!
- For entry information, follow this link to horseshowtracker.com.
- Super Sires Sponsors Pleasure Versatility Challenge – Super Sires once again is the Title Sponsor of the annual Pleasure VersatilityC, held during the 2024 AQHA World Championship Show. Super Sires enjoys major airtime on the Big Screen and throughout the venue to market Super Sires stallions during the legendary AQHA World Show.
Super Sires is an organization created by Horsemen for Horsemen to enhance the breeding and show horse industry along with opportunities of sales. The Executive Committee works diligently to expand the program with transparency and integrity in that we can offer opportunities to horsemen and women, as well as giving incentive to our youth.
Super Sires Executive Committee and Officers are driven to continue to grow this exceptional program with more stallions, more breeders, more offspring, with their owners and exhibitors reaping benefits across the nation…the one program that keeps Paying It Forward. Remember, Super Sires pays 10% to both the Stallion Owner and the Nominator of the Offspring for every dollar earned in the arena! Expect more prosperous and innovative programs in the near future for Super Sires…join the Ride!
Enroll your Stallion into Super Sires program! To enroll your stallion today, contact Joan Logan Smith at 940-727-3474.
Throughout the year, please refer to our website, www.supersires.org, for up-to-date information regarding stallions, events, a list of nominated offspring and our sponsor’s links.
Joan Logan Smith, Executive Director
(940) 727-3474
Christa Conway, Executive Secretary
765-744-7363
Super Sires Executive Committee:
President: Stephen Stephens (817) 304-1198 goodiwillbe@gmail.com
1st Vice President: Johne Dobbs (217) 254-5261 jdobbs@andreini.com
2nd Vice President: Julie Voge (785) 317-4334 vogequarterhorses@yahoo.com
Secretary/Treasurer Nancy Ditty (352) 804-8011 nancy@dittyupfarm.com
Past President: Gil Galyean (405) 641-8124 gilgalyean@gmail.com
