Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale

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The Markel Insurance Breeder Championship Futurity Yearling Sale is a limited entry consignment sale designed to bring many of the nation's top yearlings to public sale. The sale is only open to yearlings enrolled in the NSBA Breeders Championship Futurity or NSBA Color Breeders Championship Futurity and is held in conjunction with the NSBA World Championship Show each year.

The 2022 National Snaffle Bit Association’s annual NSBA Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale set a new record for gross sales. The gross sales on the 96 yearlings that went through the sale ring were $2,082,500, providing consignors with a sale average of $21,672 per head. The top ten sale average was $80,150, and the top 20 sale average was $57,600.

The NSBA Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale generated an estimated $213,106 that will be set aside for sale graduates who will compete as two-year-olds in 2023 in a designated Breeders Championship Futurity two-year-old class or as three-year olds in 2024 in a designated Breeders Championship Futurity three-year-old class. The Sale Graduate purse is in addition to NSBA’s Breeders Championship Futurity and Color Breeders Championship Futurity payouts that are provided in each BCF and Color BCF class.

High Selling Mare – Cool Sultry Lady, Hip number 66, a black filly by RL Best Of Sudden and out of NSBA Hall Of Fame mare Cool Krymsun Lady (One Hot Krymsun) who was consigned by Sara Heeley and sold for $160,000.

High Selling Gelding – Win N Doubt/CWH Win N Doubt, Hip number 95, a double-registered AQHA/APHA gelding by No Doubt Im Lazy and out of Congress and NSBA world champion producing mare She Kisses The Best (RL Best Of Sudden), who was consigned by Bret and Heather Caplinger and sold for $155,000.

High Selling Stallion – Doubt It, Hip number 56, a red roan colt by No Doubt Im Lazy and out of Only Yours, who was consigned by Bill and Cindy Cosentino and sold for $60,000.

High Selling Hunt Seat Prospect - Its A Summer Thing, hip number 51, a filly by Its A Southern Thing and out of Sleepy Pleasures, dam of five producing foals earning more than $65,000 in earnings (Too Sleepy To Zip), who was consigned by Gumz Farms and sold for $70,000.

Sale Date: Friday, August 18, 2023 - 4:00 p.m. CST

Sale Preview: Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 5:00 p.m. CST

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