The top lot of the first sport horse auction to be held during the international showjumping show at Keysoe was a scopey For Pleasure x Dynamo gelding.
He was sold to a phone buyer from the USA for £24,000 during the sale in which 10 of 14 three-year-olds put forward found new homes.
A large audience arrived for the evening event yesterday (3 July) hosted by Kingsman Equine, a Gloucestershire-based company founded specifically to source sport horses and run elite auctions.
Showjumper Carron Nicol took two new horses home to Warwickshire. She first paid £14,500 for a black Nouma DAuzay daughter, a big mare with plenty of jump. Then the enormous-jumping grey gelding Diablo, by Durango VDL, went into Carron’s shopping basket for £14,000.
“I’m delighted because I’d earmarked both these horses before the auction,” she said. “I love a black horse and it’s a real bonus that the mare is already backed, while Diablo was my absolute favourite when I looked at the catalogue.
“I haven’t had to pay a fortune for either of them and they both have lovely characters. Temperament means a lot to me because my horses are part of the family.”
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Top lot at Tattersalls event horse sale fetches €37,000 as Oliver Townend buys two
Six horses found new homes at the sale at Tattersalls Horse Trials, with top British event rider Oliver Townend among
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Kingsman Elite Sport Auction prices
Lot 1: Valor Z (Vagrant Z x Chellano Z stallion) £9,500 not sold
Lot 2: Lazora (Lantino x Ferro mare) £7,500
Lot 3: Lady Balu (Bubalu VDL x Tolan R mare) £17,000 not sold
Lot 4: Camillus S Z (Cicero Z x Chin Chin stallion) £15,000
Lot 5: Lola (Durango VDL x Conterno Grande mare) £6,000 not sold
Lot 6: For Your Pleasure (For Pleasure x Dynamo gelding) £24,000
Lot 7: Lacarda (Dallas VDL x Aerobic mare) £13,000
Lot 8: Action Time Z (Action Breaker x Indoctro stallion) £17,000
Lot 9: Formidable SLR Z (For Pleasure x Carthago Z stallion) £12,000
Lot 10: Corazon Z (Cicero z x Negro stallion) £10,000
Lot 11: not forward
Lot 12: Unnamed (Nouma D’Auzay x Quidam’s Rubin mare) £14,500
Lot 13: not forward
Lot 14: Unnamed (I’m Special De Muze x Clinton gelding) £7,500
Lot 15: Diablo (Durango VDL x Harley VDL gelding) £14,000
Lot 16: Unnamed (Quasimodo Z x Mister Blue gelding) £9,500 not sold
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