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Working ranch horses since 1888. Proven cow horses with speed, good
bone, feet & withers. 1997 Montana Quarter Horse Ranch of the Year.
175 lots sell - weanlings, yearlings,
65 broodmares, and 10 select saddle horses. Also selling stallions Ima
Bit Of Heaven & PC Joes Frost. Largest selection of buckskins, duns,
roans, blacks, grullas & palominos to sell in the Northwest. |
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Weavers
Tuf Dee, weanling buckskin full sister of current AQHA High Point Earner
in Heading, third in Heeling, and AQHA World Show qualifier in six
events, sold for $14,500.
The 14th
Annual Weaver Quarter Horses Production
Sale
was held on
September 19, 2009, at the fairgrounds in
Great Falls
,
MT.
Horses
sold to buyers in 22 states and the three foreign countries of
Canada
,
Germany
and
Mexico
. The auctioneer was Lynn Weishaar and the pedigree reader was John
Johnson, both from
South Dakota
. The sale was kicked off with comments by Don Treadway, Jr., Executive
Vice President of the AQHA.
The
sale featured horses bred by Stan and Nancy Weaver and family of Big
Sandy, MT, as well as horses bred by Ted and Barb Crowley and Todd and
Una Ford of Treasure State Quarter Horses, Chinook, MT.
The
sale was topped by Ima Bit Of Heaven, Weavers’ red roan stallion that
they used on the ranch for ten years. He was sired by Smart Little Lena
and out of a full sister to Peptoboonsmal, and is listed on Equi-Stats
as a leading sire of Reined Cow Horses for the last three years. He sold
to Stephen Coates of San Angelo, TX, for $35,000.
The
second high-selling horse was PC Joes Frost, a stallion that also stood
on the Weaver Ranch. Sired by Sun Frost, he is Sun Frost’s highest
AQHA point earner. He was purchased by Diane Pugh of Miller, SD, for
$25,000.
Sale
highlights included Weavers Tuf Dee, a weanling buckskin daughter of Ima
Tuf Lena and Lady Beckwith Dee. A full sister to the current AQHA High
Point Earner in Heading, third in Heeling, and AQHA World Show qualifier
in six events, she sold to Karen Marie Heidelmeyer and Lee Hicks of
Colorado for $14,500.
Topping the broke geldings was Weavers Poco Tonka, a 2005 bay roan
gelding that sold to Ron Jackson of
Alberta
,
Canada
, for $12,500.
The average on five saddle horses was $6,980; the average on 51
broodmares was $2,355; the average on 35 weanling stud colts was $1,917;
the average on 58 weanling fillies was $1,863; and the overall average
on 160 lots was $2,527.
Weaver’s next production sale will be held September 18, 2010, in
Great Falls
, MT.
For more information, visit www.weaverhorses.com.
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