New Yearling Sale Planned for 2021 The Run For A Million

A new, select yearling sale organizers say will feature high-end reining-bred yearlings and a focus on transparency for buyers is planned for this year’s The Run For A Million horse show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Called the Gala Select Breeders Sale, the event will be limited to 50 yearlings out of dams who have either won or produced the winners at least $50,000. It will be held Saturday, August 21 at the South Point Equestrian Center.

Sale producer Amanday Brumley, who also produces The Run For A Million, said a major goal of the sale is to provide consigners a platform that is able to highlight the quality of a select group of high-end horses that, in many cases, might be more likely to sell privately rather than go through a public auction. She said consignments could come from large, well-known ranches as well as smaller operations that only have a small number of mares that meet the criteria. The consignment application deadline is May 21. “It’s about let’s understand what the quality of these mare’s produce [is] and, then what the transparency [is] that needs to be done to ensure that these buyers are as comfortable as they possibly can be in spending a lot of money on these horses,” she said. The sale will be part of the festivities at The Run For A Million, which will once again feature a milliondollar invitational for reiners, a $100,000 Open Shootout, a fence work challenge for cow horses as well as events for freestyle, rookie and non-pro reiners.

Gala Select Breeders Sale Transparency - The Gala Select Breeders Sale will feature a number of transparency measures – including evaluation of X-rays and the yearlings themselves by a panel of veterinarians – to increase buyer confidence. In order to be considered for the Gala Select Breeders Sale, yearlings must have a set of X-rays sent in to sale officials. The X-rays, which must have been taken within 10 days of application, will be reviewed by a panel of veterinarians in order to be accepted into the sale. “In the contract, there’s a list of X-rays that are required upon application, which include all four fetlocks, knees, front feet, hocks and stifles,” Brumley said. “And I have a panel of five veterinarians all reviewing these X-rays.”

Every yearling also will be evaluated by veterinarians at the South Point two days before the sale.