Registered ridden horses topped at $51,000 and averaged $10,456 in what was an outstanding result at the inaugural Landmark Classic Campdraft Horse Sale on Saturday in Tamworth, NSW.
There were 103 horses sold at the Tamworth Showground covered arena, for a gross of $1,077,000 and an 80pc clearance.
Praise for the Landmark selling team was widespread as many vendors welcomed sales that far exceeded their expectations.
One main attraction to the sale, which especially boosted the gelding market, was the invitation to buyers at this sale to enter their purchases in the inaugural Landmark Classic Campdraft in February next year, where a cool $50,000 prize money will be up for grabs.
The top-priced horse at Saturday's sale was a three-and-a-half-year-old brown stallion, Bective Sniper, sold by Lisa Hill, Bective Stock Horse stud, Bective Station, Quirindi, NSW.
Her sole entry in the sale was by well-known campdraft sire, Acres Destiny, and out of Bective Edwina.
He was bought by Tamworth livestock agent, Jim Lyons, on behalf of Queensland stock horse breeder, Wally Rea, 'The Overflow', Marlborough.
Extract from a full market report to appear in The Land, NSW, May 29 edition.
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