The fantastic sale featured 2024 offerings from the heart of breeding programs, where every single horse in the sale was 5-panel N/N either by direct testing or parentage. Topping the list at $14K was a 3-year-old talented gelding eligible for all AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenge and Futurities, raised and started by Lauing Ranch. Lot 33 LR BIG JOES PAT was even hauled to the mountains in Idaho, where he made good choices riding on the narrow mountain trails. Sporting “Cowgent’s” colossal work ethic, he is making his new home in Powell, Wyoming, where he will have a terrific future.
2024 again brought a thrilling opportunity for youth ages 16 and under to bid on the KIDS BID ONLY Lot 40 offered by Lauing Ranch. The colt is a laid-back, easy-going, and correct bay roan sired by JM ROWDY BLUE HAYES [aka Big Joe] out of a great producing Lauing mare with top-notch babies year after year. She has foals spread all over the country. The excited winning bidder was a terrific 12-year-old young man from Georgia. We appreciate all the super kids and their family’s interest in our horses and programs, along with the friendships it creates.
Where else are you going to find this excellent opportunity year after year?
Proceeds from the KIDS BID Lot fund our annual BV&D scholarship for students pursuing post-secondary education in agriculture and/or education. We are honored to announce Paden Belkham as our 2024 winner. Mr. Belkham is a remarkable young man who is no ordinary youth. As a 2024 South Dakota State High School Rodeo Champion, he is attending Ranger Junior College in Texas, majoring in Ag Business while continuing to rodeo.
The highest selling weanling filly, Lot 26, was a beautiful bay roan by BONNY BLUES and out of SASSYWOOD FOX, a
BLUE FOX HANCOCK daughter. This show-stopping filly from Lauing Ranch sold to Indiana for $10,200. Lot 2, the second high-selling filly, was also sired by BONNY BLUES out of Revue Hydel Hancock, a Revue Hancock daughter. This gorgeous black filly has a new home in Wyoming for $9,900. Close behind at $8,500 was Lot 11, another BONNY BLUES sired bay roan filly out of top producing mare, Classy Blue Chucker, sold to repeat Kentucky buyer.
Weanling stallion honors go to Lot 4 at $7,600 to Iowa, a fantastic blue roan stallion sired by Lauing Ranch’s stallion
LR BLUE BOYS BONNET. Followed closely by a BONNY BLUES sired weanling stallion out of a Plenty Try bred dam
at $5,000, selling to repeat Kentucky buyers. The top-selling mare, Lot 31 CHEYENNE FROST SEV, which brought $7,300 from a buyer in South Dakota, was a 2017 mare offered by Moonshine Creek Quarter Horses from Arkansas. She is a lovely moving bay granddaughter of Sun Frost with some added Driftwood. Moonshine Creek again brought outstanding Red Roan Raider, and WYO Roan Advantage bred weanlings finding new homes.
