Curlewis vendor Raelene Higgins bagged the top-priced sale horse at the Landmark-run sale last Saturday at AELEC.

Coming from multiple aged event champion mare and NCHA Hall of Fame entrant One Hellofa Spin, with earnings in excess of $153,000, it wasn’t hard to see why the yearling chestnut filly was highly sought after. 

But a successful home was guaranteed when highest bidders, SDM Quarter Horses, secured the filly via the phone from their home of Goondiwindi.

“She was really the best pick of the day,” SDM Quarter Horses representative Andrea McCosker said.

“We originally started out looking at 10 horses from the sale, but with her dam being One Hellofa Spin, she was hard to go past. 

“Plus we have a bit of a background with her sire SR Instant Choice and we are happy with that.

“At this point she will most likely go to Todd (Graham) to complete her cutting training for the 2019 Futurity.”

The second-highest priced sale horse was another chestnut filly entered by vendor Karen Thrun, of South Australia.

The Koonamara Spoonfula Badge x Chickasha Hope yearling garnered $31,000 early on in the sale and was purchased by Tri Star Quarter Horses located in Whittlesea, Victoria.

NCHA general manager Craig Young said it was another successful sale, with 250 registered buyers eyeing off the country’s best breeders.

“We sold the same number of horses as last year, but the average was about $800 less than last year,” Mr Young said.

“There was a really good quality line of performance-bred cutting horses.”

A total of $800,000 was reached, with an average of $11,567 per horse with 69 of the 93 lots sold on the day.

The sale coincided with the 14-day NCHA Futurity event at AELEC, which featured more than 800 riders from across the country and the world. The event is the largest indoor horse sport in the Southern Hemisphere and the richest cutting horse event in Australia.

List of results available at https://landmark.eqlive.com.au/Catalogue/Results/14