Our First TV auction: Superior Livestock Fall Horse Sale 2013

Saturday, November 9th marked the first time Double K Ranch had consigned a few of our good ranch geldings to the TV horse sale put on by Superior Livestock Services. This was a pretty novel step, and a fairly exciting one, to think that folks all over the country could sit in their  homes and watch our horses sell on RFDTV. We were all looking forward to it... (it turned out to be a very good thing that Abi didn't have to lift a finger selling the horses that day... she wasn't up for it at all!)

 Of course, with Abi's accident on the Wednesday right before; and her subsequent days in the "heavy convalescing" stage... the horse auction on Saturday was sort of robbed of it's shine by the whole family fussing over our (mumbling-ly uncommunicative) youngest sister.

  But we still wanted to see our horses "debut TV appearance".
  We don't keep up with a TV here at the house, but we had arranged with our neighbors to the south (retired, and not the same from Ab's teeth ordeal) to watch it with them on their set.
          (A very nice set it is, too!)
 We had planned to ride down, (and I was looking forward to accompanying Abi in the training cart with her blue roan pony she's been harness training...)
  But since she was in pretty sad shape, that was all  out the window.
 
  Nevertheless, we settled in around the neighbors' living room and watched Abi and Anne, with their horses, in their first TV appearances.
 If anyone asks them now if they've been on television, they can both say "Yes."
   (Believe it or not, that was a question we were asked earlier.)

  The phone was ringing and ringing the whole way through, and I can't believe how nervous I felt, even though it was completely removed from the usual hustle and bustle a sale is usually tied to.

 In the end our geldings topped the sale; with WA Apache Como going to a lady in Kansas for slightly over 10k.

 Leo came in at a very respectable 5900, headed out to Virginia.

 And Flynn brought a easily predicted 4500; going to a fellow in Kansas.
  

 After being quiet keyed up with all the events, it was a relief to have it all said and done, and Anne was on the phone with buyers and bidders alike, doing after sale wrap-up.

   We would like to congratulate the winning buyers of these three nice geldings... and also say a big thank-you to everyone who bid on our horses.
  We appreciate your continued confidence in our offerings, and hope to see you around the ranch for something a little later, perhaps!

   And thanks also to Superior Livestock Auctions, for having us!