CSU Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale

High-selling young horse Miss Basic Affair with CSU student trainer Sam Minnich Held April 30, in Fort Collins, Colo., at the B.W. Pickett Equine Center at Colorado State University, the CSU Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale topped off the academic year for about 60 CSU students. Those students trained the young horses offered in the sale and contributed to the event through coursework in equine sales management and equine event management classes. The sale is the annual culmination of the unique hands-on education in the CSU Equine Sciences Program. A total of 62 Quarter Horses sold to generate more than $250,000.

"The Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale is a keystone event that helps us maintain an excellent education for our students because it is so closely linked to the equine industry they are preparing to enter," said Jerry Black, director of undergraduate programs for the CSU Equine Sciences Program.

This year, the Legends program involved 20 consignors, including some of the largest and best-known Western horse operations.

Consignors provided yearling and 2-year-old Quarter Horses to the Equine Sciences Program last fall, allowing students to gain valuable horsemanship skills throughout the 2010-2011 academic year. Consignors also added older horses to the sale.

The high-selling horse was a 2002 sorrel gelding named JS Easy Pep (Hickorys Indian Pep x Docs Big Mama x Docs Fritzie Command), consigned by Cowan Select Horses LLC, Havre, Mont. The gelding sold for $14,500 to Kirk Shiner DVM, McCoy, Colo.

The high-selling young horse was a 2008 bay mare named Miss Basic Affair (Black To Basics x Docs Red Hot Affair x Docs Seven Eleven), consigned by Crofoot Ranches LLP, Lubbock, Texas. The 3-year-old mare sold for $8,500, and Sam Minnich was the CSU equine student responsible for her training.

Sale records show the average price for all horses in the sale was $4,052, and the average price for young horses trained by CSU students was $2,907. Auction proceeds underwrite sale costs, contribute to student scholarships and go back to consignors.

From an educational perspective, the sale is meant to help prepare equine sciences students for success in the diverse horse industry, an industry which in Colorado alone produces a total annual economic impact of approximately $1.6 million, according to a 2005 study commissioned by the American Horse Council Foundation.

For information about the 2012 Legends of Ranching Performance Horse Sale, contact Gary Carpenter, CSU Equine Sciences industry outreach and liaison director, at 970-491-8373 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .





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