So I left the house this morning at 11am, to arrive my noon. By 12:30pm I was already exhausted. There were SO MANY people and horses. Everyone was coming out of the woodwork, I was pretty much overwhelmed. So many horses and so much noise. The catalog and non-cataloged horses were packed with people. I immediately went to the loose horses to see what was there and the volume was much quieter. There were some beauties in the loose horses. Too bad people wouldn't spend a little bit of time, elbow grease, and money to enter them into the catalog sale instead.
I walked through and found my seat about 10 minutes before the sale started at 1pm. I skipped the 4H tack sale/swap to make sure I would have cash in case something came long. (dont worry I didn't buy anything...this time).
It was non-stop horses from 1pm until 6:30pm. For the first four hours the stands were packed. There wasn't room anywhere. It was standing room only. I couldn't believe the prices of some of those horses. I guess it's spring and people want horses to ride all summer.
By the time they were half way through the non-cataloged horses the crowd had thinned considerably. By the time they finally got to the loose horses at 5pm, there was room to stretch out. It was disappointing to know that people weren't intersted in the loose horses.
I bid on one old guy that I fell in love with. Hip # 707 will haunt me. The sale in October had a horse with Hip # 707 and I tried to buy her afterwards and couldn't. So this time I bid. But I only had $100 cash in my pocket and he went for more than that.
I took notes on almost all of them except for the few short minutes I was gabbing with a neighbor who showed up 3/4 of the way through the sale. I will try to get those numbers listed on here soon just to keep a running total of all the sale prices on auctions that I attend (and remember to bring pen and paper to take notes).
I must remind myself that I need to wait to bring any horses home until this fall/winter. The prices will be half what they were today. I figured the prices would be higher today because people want to ride. Come fall/winter people will remember what winter was like last year and will dump them. I've noticed on Kelo and Craigslist that the prices are a lot more. So I'm guessing that the prices will be less this fall and hopefully I'll have a better plan on how I can manage more horses.
But I'm mentally exhuasted so I think I'm going to go put my feet up and fall asleep watching the race.
Zeke at last week's trail ride. He too was run through an auction. I am sure glad I have him. He's a diamond in the rough.
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