Loose Sale

I haven't been able to go to an auction in months. In fact, I don't honestly remember the last auction so it may have been more than a year since I've attended. I avoid certain auctions because they seem like "good ol' boys" auctions and I'm invisible. Dont' get me wrong, I don't want to make a scene but if there's a horse that needs to be pulled, I want to make sure that I'm not invisible. I don't really know what the going rate of "loose" horses are going for right now. Now that we are almost into August, which is the month for culling horses, I'm curious.

I decided to go out to the South Dakota Horse Sale website to see what the Corsica Horse Sale has to say. They are pro-slaughter and make no bones about wanting the slaughter plants to reopen. Here's what they posted in their June catalog.

"NOTICE - Due to more and more No Value horses being seen at our Loose Horse sale along with the $10 horses, which usually are mostly yearlings, We need to be screening carefully & be very cautious in accepting weanlings, thin yearlings & stallions. A deposit of the minimum commission will be required if Seller does not have enough quality horses along to cover the sale expense deductions from the check proceeds. As usual, no blind, very  lame or horses with any deformity can be accepted."

I would like, some day most likely years from now, to work with the auctions and take in those that are unfit for the sales. Or be there to take in the No Value or $10 horses. Someone needs to be there to take care of them. If not us, who? So how do we go about fundraising for these horses without the drama that ensues many of these "broker" programs?