Why Buy a Horse in the 2013 Reichert Celebration Sale? $2,031,784 in Total Stakes Prize Money to Date is a Pretty Good Reason
The 2013 Reichert Celebration Sale is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Thursday, September 5th, in Fort Worth, Texas and will continue through September 7th. The first portion of the sale on Thursday will begin at 4:00 pm with POA yearlings and POA show ponies being offered for the public’s consideration. Then, on Saturday at 9:00 am broodmares, show horses, hunter under saddle yearlings, embryos, and western prospect yearlings will all be offered to the highest bidders.
Why put a horse in or buy a horse out of the 2013 Reichert Celebration Sale? Just in case you weren’t paying close attention last night, here’s a little recap that might provide you with a few incentives…
In yesterday evening’s Equine Sports Medicine 2-Year-Old Non Pro Open Western Pleasure Stakes, Adam Kober of California and Lope The Line were the unanimous choice of the judges and received a $9,000 check for first place. The pair also received an award saddle and flowered neck wreath. None of that would’ve been possible if Kober hadn’t bought the mare by Lazy Loper at the Reichert Sale last year.
“We bought this horse last year at the Reichert sale,” Kober says. “I didn’t know anything about her. I was coming out of a class with my previous horse, and Katie [Green] walked up to me and said we needed to talk. She said she found this horse and that it was awesome.”
Kober wasn’t the only exhibitor who came away with an impressive check for his efforts. Nancy Ditty and Courtney Chown tied for second and third place and were each presented with a check for $4,725. For achieving the fourth place finish, Linda Berwick won a check for $2,200. For her fifth place finish, Sara Heeley received $1,350. Heather Marie Bergantzel and Liz Hay tied for sixth and seventh each winning $700.
And that was just the first of many stakes classes being offered here at the Reichert. If you would like to take a look at all of the horses in the sale this year, particularly the yearlings that will be eligible for stakes incentives in 2014, the sale catalog is now online. Click here to view the digital sale catalog.
But in case you still aren’t sold, let’s review the stakes prize money generated from previous Reichert sales.
Reichert Stakes Sale Recap
1999-$84,000
2000-$87,000
2001-$89,000
2002- $90,050
2003- $103,500
2004- $89,615
2005- $92,600
2006- $93,265
2007- $108,954
2008-$134,275
2009- $198,725
2010-$186,975
2011-$241,275
2012-$214,050
2013-$218,500
Total Stakes Prize Money to date- $2,031,784
If you do choose to buy a horse in the sale, be sure to check out insurance coverage by the sale sponsor, Kaplow Insurance Agency.
Scroll below to view more important details regarding the sale.
Auction Day Telephone Numbers:
CEO: JR Reichert- 319-321-2001
Auctioneer: Alan Parker- 813-220-4668
Sale Secretary: Janet Hoke DVM- 813-838-7568
Auctioneer: Joel White- 417-328-8710
Consignor Representatives:
Shane Watson- 513-543-3313
Jason Ducharme- 248-459-2010
Consignor rep/Barn Manager- Dale North- 813-695-4200
Take a look at some of the sires that have horses in the sale this year.
POA Sale– Pal Calvacade, Suddenley Sid, Docs Tuff N Zip, A Sudden Zippo, Black Tie Invitation, Blazing Hot Nights, Ima Impulsive Star, LVO Four n The Floor, LVO Respects Poco Bien, TXS Chip N Array, The Silver Kid, Chocolatey, The Gold Maker, Hot Chocolate Hunter, Hot Fudge Chip
Other– RL Best of Sudden, Zippos Mr Good Bar, Presidential Order, Protect Your Assets, Treasure Chip, Certain Potential, Gettin Impulsive, Macs Good N Plenty, Jacs Investment Copy, Ima Zippo Good Bar, Blazing Hot, A Dream Remembered, Machine Made, On Holiday, Maximum Zip, Ziprageous, Chocolatey, Lazy Loper, BMQ Legacy, QH Fancy Deluxe, Extremely Hot Chips, Impulse To Lope, No Doubt Im Lazy, Radical Rodder, Obsession of Scotch, A Touch Of Sudden, The Good Ranger, Willy Be Invited, Dirty Impression, Iresistable Sudden, Hes Suddenly Famous, Good I Will Be, Livn Large, Vitalyzed, Indefinite, A Good Machine, The Krymsun Kruzer, Page Impressive, Grand Slam Touchdown, Watch My Potential, Promote This Chip, Double Up Investment, Iron Age, Born To Be Blazing, Gonna Wanna Watchit, Ima Good Rad Rodder, Hez Only Trouble, The Miracle Chip, Suddenly A Sonny, Dress Western, Prinzziple, Zips Chocolate Chip
