A Sale Like No Other

[Sunrise Valley]

Does anyone know if the world show "Sale Like No Other" concept was successful?

It was no fun for those of us who like online live auctions. I couldn't even find any pictures of the sale horses.

Lisa

 

[maestoso]

I don't know how successful the sale was, but there were at least few sales. They kept announcing that one of the horses had been sold and already won a reserve world championship. In my opinion, the bottom line price sale, as they referred to it, wasn't exactly bottom line price. I think that the horses were priced at fair, or higher than fair, market value. The deals weren't nearly as good as you could get when they were doing the auction.

 

[Riverdance]

The last I had heard before I left on Saturday, there where only 2 horses sold and one of them was sold before it even got there.

They did not get enought entries so they ended up asking farms to please enter horses. Some farms decided not to (they told me and are some of the biggest farms), other farms entered several horses to fill the stalls. Some prices where rather high, in some cases higher than the seller had originally paid for the horses.

Over all, I do not think it went very well. I was told by Lucky Four that they tried this since the auction did not bring as big of prices as it has in the past. I think they need to bring the auction back. To me it was one of the highlights of the show!!! The horses may not have brought as much as they have in the past, but they still got sold, unlike the Bottom Line horses.

 

[Field-of-Dreams]

I thought the prices were rather steep. Plus, I didn't see anything that I would have really wanted to bring home. The only one that caught our attention was one of the "cheaper" horses, as it was!

Lucy

 

[Mulligans Run]

In my opinion there was not enough information shared on how the sale ran. I checked in on the sale when I first arrived and while things were still being set up. Later in the week I ran into someone who actually had a horse in the sale and she had no idea how it was being run. I believe there was too much confusion and the location wasn't the best.

The announcers at the show tried to make everyone aware of the sale, but again - details were left out and there was too much confusion. And I agree that the prices were too high on many of them. I heard they sold three.

 

[Sandy B]

Does anyone know if the world show "Sale Like No Other" concept was successful?
It was no fun for those of us who like online live auctions. I couldn't even find any pictures of the sale horses.

Lisa

AMHA should of at least had large poster boards(signs) set up along the aisle-ways by Mini Tack Express and the larger trade show area, that had arrows that led to the sale stalls. Signs outside would have been nice too. I thought prices were rather high, especially for the soft market right now. The proof is that only a couple horses actually sold.

 

[JWC sr.]

I for one would love to see the World Sale brought back, but finding a private entity to run it and ultimately fork up the money when the sale loses money as it has the last three years running is the problem.

Don Burdette and Ray Zoecher did a great job of promoting, organizing and putting on the sale. But the losses finally got to be too much for them individually. Which I can understand completely.

At this point all we can do is to keep our fingers crossed and hope the economy will turn around and that someone will try it again. Then it will be up to the rest of us to attend, support and patronize the sale to make it successful.

 

[wildoak]

I was only up there a couple of days, but was stalled right across the aisle from the sale horses and did not see much activity over there. There was a large signboard at the end of the row with horses' names and prices on it, but that's the only "advertising" I saw on it and I agree, prices were higher across the board than I expected.

Jan

 

[Becky]

Like, Jan, I was surprised at the prices of most of the horses. I thought they would be bargain priced. Not so!

I still had people coming up to me wanting to know when the 'auction' was going to be!

I do know of one filly that sold right at the end of the show as I brought her to OKC for her new owner.

 

[Flyin G Farm]

This year was my first experience at Worlds, and I went with the intention of looking at the sale horses. I agree, the prices weren't "bargain" prices, and the times I was over looking (my friend was a few rows up from the sale horses) there weren't many people looking. I did buy a mare, although for quite a bit less than her "bottom line" price. There were quite a few horses that had their prices lowered by the last day of the show. I think I would have prefered to see an auction.

Tracy

 

[wildoak]

I don't suppose they will post results - would sure like to know what the "bottom line" really was in the end.

Jan

 

[Humhill]

We had a couple horses in the sale.

Apparently, the sale row was supposed to be right inside the Burnett building where everyone walks by, but that got changed last minute.

For the prices, keep in mind the horses that were in it. There were some REALLY nice horses. It didn't really work how I think it was intended. Myself, for one, didn't really catch the "Bottom Line" part of it til it was too late.

We sold a mare and foal to Denmark on the last day. Pretty happy about that.

A agree, an auction would've been better. People compete with each other in an auction and the prices tend to go higher. It doesn't have to be a big, fancy deal either, just an auction. They have a perfectly good auction arena, they ought to use it!!