The 2023 Nutrien Masters Sale completed yesterday afternoon with some very happy buyers taking away some high-quality open horses that they will be able to take straight to a competition. This is the benefit of purchasing in the open horse market, and there have been horses sold over the last two days that we will be excited to follow their new owners’ journey and see them back next year for the Graduates draft. 

Top price of the sale was a first for any of the Nutrien Sales, with a gelding outselling the mares and the stallion on offer. The quality of the breeding in this sale was deep and we are sure that the new owners will be rewarded with success on their purchase. 

With horses still selling over the next few days, at the end of the event, we sold 81 of the 112 lots offered with a 72.32% clearance, gross is currently at $2,042,500 and the average price is $25,216.05.  

Considering the economic climate and downturn of the cattle market, the Nutrien Team is pleased with the result and support of the sale. In our 2nd year of this concept, this Premier Open Age performance horse sale has very similar results to the first year and we believe it will only grow stronger from here. 

The Top price Gelding and the top of the sale sold for $90,000 was Lot 119 RED HOT METAL, who lived up to his name and would make owner Serge Rolland a very happy vendor. A fully trained cutting gelding who is a multiple-aged event finalist and winner of the 2023 NCHA Limited Open Derby, is by the METALLIC CAT sire HEAVY METAL and out of a DOCS FRECKLES OAK mare in LADY SO SMART, whose dam was LADY IN RED. 

An exciting sale for the top price mare of the sale for $82,000 was Lot 109 CONDALISA SMOOTH who was sold to Pat & Liz Cleaver from Nimmitabel, NSW.  

Vendors Paige Nancarrow and Callum Moore couldn’t wipe the smile of their faces! This 5yo mare is by SMOOTH AS A CAT out of the HAZELWOOD CONMAN mare KEMMIS CONDALISA ACRES. 

Only a few lots apart, Lot 104 BELLA GATO sold for $80,000, on account of the Poole family to Kareela Grazing Company from Springsure in QLD . She is a 6yo mare by STYLIN CAT out of a DOCS SPINIFEX MARE in SPECIAL T SPIN. 

The only stallion in the sale was Lot 91 BRANCHVALE IM SCRAP METAL, a 5yo stallion by METALLIC CAT out of a PEPTOBOONSMAL mare, PEPTO SEES STARS. Sold on account of EMDEE Enterprises, this stallion is heading to Urunga, NSW for purchaser STEVSUSA Pty Ltd. 

Other top prices yesterday were; 

Lot 123 AC HUGHES ME, a 5yo mare on account of EDAND Property Pty Ltd sold for $80,000 to Annabella Baliente from Spring Ridge, NSW. 

Lot 132 PRETTY N STYLISH, a 4yo mare on account of Holly Clayden sold for $55,000 to Kareela Grazing Company, Springsure, QLD. 

Lot 84 DOUSEEME, a 6 yo mare on account of Dominic Williams sold for $50,000 to Pittmoss Pty Ltd from Morish, QLD. 

Lot 63 OORANOOK DUSK, a 6yo gelding on account of Jo McKinnon sold for $45,000 to CW Rea Investments from Marlborough, QLD. 

64 BADBOY HENRY, a 6yo gelding on account of Maggie Mason – Barcode Direct Aust sold for $45,000 to Scott Waters and Tammie Overton from Tamworth, NSW. 

114 KINGSTON CAT, a 4yo gelding on account of Claire Murphy sold for $45,000 to Rodger Grant from Koobah Performance Horses, Tamworth, NSW. 

116 REVYON FLAME, a 4yo gelding on account of Angus McKinnon sold for $45,000 to Rogers Livestock Pty Ltd from Thalgarrah, NSW. 

124 BET SHESA DUCK, a 4yo mare on account of Graham Lamey sold for $43,000 to VH Enterprises from Arding, NSW. 

37 ROCKIN THE BOONBOX, a 7yo gelding was put through the sale on Friday on account of Christina Grant and sold for $40,000 to N Green and RA Wilson from Mudgee, NSW. 

44 DUALTALLIC, a 6yo gelding was also put through the sale on Friday on account of Julie Sheedy and sold for $40,000 to CW Rea Investments from Marlborough, QLD. 

We have quite a few thankyou including our very important cattle donors for the prework cattle and sale cattle. Thank you to Powerhouse Pastoral Co and G&A McGuire for these beautiful lines of cattle. 

Big thank you to all our vendors at the sale. We would also like to thank all the buyers and underbidders who were onsite and online. We wish all purchasers the very best of success with these open horses and look forward to seeing them back next year in the Graduate Campdraft. 

Thank you to our team of photographers, Jo Thieme – Jo Thieme Photography and Emma Pendergast, Penwood Creations. The images from the weekend are beautiful and we really appreciate the many hours you put in. 

Thank you to Australian Equine Network for the livestream. The full rewatch of the campdraft, preworks, and sale is on our website. https://www.nutrienequine.com.au/mas23-webcasts-2/ 

Thank you again to our Tamworth Nutrien Ag Solutions branch and casual staff. We also thank our team of Auctioneers who travel from all their branches to put their golden tonsils to work for us. We could not ask for a more professional lineup. 

Thank you to our judges on the weekend, Jacob Brown – Nutrien Graduates, Ben Rossiter – Martins Stock Haulage Nursery, and Alan Sullivan – Navaho Trailers Open 4 Open Campdraft. 

Safe Travels to everyone heading home today and we will see you in February for the 2024 Nutrien Classic! 

Nutrien Classic Entries Open tomorrow! Event Details here

👏 The winner of the 2023 Navaho Trailers Open 4 Open Campdraft was Mark Buttsworth riding A LITTLE TURPULENCE for owner Don Williams.
With a very smooth run, they had the top scores of the whole event with 92 points!!

A LITTLE TURPULENCE is a fully trained cutting stallion and had many successes in the cutting pen before venturing into the campdraft arena, where he can now add the Nutrien Open 4 Open to his career wins.

Our own Tim Hollis wasn’t far behind, scoring a 90 to take 2nd place with WOODRIDGE TERRY owned by Henry Quilty. Mat Holz collected third place to add to his success this weekend, riding NONDA LAST FRONTIER for owners Graeme and Jody Rozynski.

🙏 Thank you to Peel and Jody Tribe for their sponsorship of this great event. Navaho Trailer have been sponsoring Nutrien for over 10 years and is one of the leading custom build trailer businesses in our industry.From comfortable basic builds to high-end finish for the luxury look and feel, by choosing Navaho Trailers you can be assured that you will get the product that suits your needs. Get in contact with Peel today or visit their website: https://www.atrailer.com.au/navaho-trailers

Also thank you to our judge Alan Sullivan and cattle donors Dalblair for Round One and Ellerston Pastoral for the final’s cattle. We would also like to thank Peter and Jacinta Shumack for their kind donation of the stallion service fee to TIMES UP.

Photo credit Jo Thieme Photography

NURSERY FINAL DRAW ONLINE NOW

We saw some great scores early this morning with Robert Leach riding TIMELESS ROSE for owners GA & ML Whatham and G Edwards scoring a 90 mid way through the draw.

TIMELESS ROSE is by ONE TIME ROYALTY and it out of a METALLIC CAT mare in METALLIC ROSE. Purchased by the DOUBLE DOWN SYNDICATE from the 2022 Nutrien Classic sale from breeder Barbara Williams from Sunkissed Quarterhorses for $50,000.

We wish all competitors well in the final to be held soon.

Top Three leading into the final

Robert Leach riding TIMELESS ROSE owned by GA & ML WHATHAM & G EDWARDS, 22, 64, 4, 90
Mark Buttsworth riding PETES PET SQUIRREL owned by RODGER GRANT, 22, 63, 4, 89
Luke Morgan riding ONE LIL ROSE owned by LUKE MORGAN, 21, 63, 4, 88

With the 2023 Masters Sale wrapping up late this afternoon, the Nutrien Equine team are still selling and we look forward to bringing you all the results tomorrow morning.

As always there is those stories that we love to hear about behind the sale, especially when it comes to the youth in the industry. Today Austen Elais was excited about purchasing ! Lot 112 CANTAUR PARK KID U NOT for $17,000 from David Smith.

She is a ONE MOORE DADDY mare out of KID N GLO and he then found out the bonus news that by purchasing at the Masters Sale, his horse will qualify him to enter in the Charlie Maher Memorial Young Guns at the Nutrien Classic.

“I was excited that we were able to buy her today, but it’s even better to find out I can bring her back to the Young Guns next year. I’ll really look forward to that.”

So will we Austen!

Full Sale Wrap tomorrow, meanwhile you can check out the live sale results on our website here: https://portal.nutrienequine.com.au/catalogues/79/results

Winning the 2023 Nutrien Graduate Campdraft this afternoon was Mat Holz riding SHEKERAS TAPT IN with a score of 89 points in the final to take the win for owner Matthew Moy from Kooyoong Pastoral. Matthew purchased SHEKERA TAPT IN from Jabell Partnership in the 2020 Nutrien Classic for $35,000. She is by the imported stallion TAPT DANCIN CAT and out of JABELL SHEKERA SPIN who is also a Nutrien Graduate and former winner of the Masters campdraft in 2014. 

It was an extremely close finish with Troy Palmer and BOMBOWLEE COWCHICK finishing only one-point behind Mat with a final aggregate score of 237. 

The final was hotly contested and the five 89’s that topped the scoreboard where a sure sign of the high quality of horsemen and horses in this Nutrien Graduates draft. But we also acknowledge the smooth-running cattle. We thank our long-time cattle donors, Ellerston Pastoral, for their commitment to Nutrien Equine events, and for providing us with such quality cattle. 

Thank you also to Luke & Leah Whitehead for their donation of a service fee to BONLAC GIGOLO. 

In the final this afternoon we had 5 scores of 89. Thank you to Judge Jacob Brown, always a tough job when the runs are this good.  

FINAL TOP SCORES 

1st Place Mat Holz riding SHEKERAS TAPT IN (179) owned by KOOYOONG PASTORAL P/L, 22, 63, 4, 89, 268 

2nd Place Troy Palmer riding BOMBOWLEE COWCHICK (178) owned by Fiona & Troy Palmer, 22, 63, 4, 89, 267 

3rd Place Troy Clarke riding EAGLE HUSTLER (176) owned by R&D SADLER & T&S CLARKE, 22, 63, 4, 89, 265 

Equal 4th Dan Lindley riding ASHKAT GOLDUST (175) owned by DAN LINDLEY, 21, 64, 4, 89, 264 

Equal 4th Warwick Lawrence riding PEELVALE JADE (175) owned by WARWICK & FIONA LAWRENCE, 22, 63, 4, 89, 264 

FINAL PLACINGS OF 2023 NUTRIEN GRADUATES CAMPDRAFT 

1 268 MAT HOLZ riding SHEKERAS TAPT IN owned by Matthew Moy, KOOYOONG PASTORAL P/L 

2 267 TROY PALMER riding BOMBOWLEE COWCHICK owned by Troy Palmer 

3 265 TROY CLARKE riding EAGLE HUSTLER owned by R&D Sadler & T&S Clarke 

= 4 264 DAN LINDLEY riding ASHKAT GOLDUST owned by Dan Lindley 

=4  264 WARWICK LAWRENCE riding PEELVALE JADE owned by Warwick & Fiona Lawrence 

6 262 JOE PAYNE riding BONNIEDOON KANYA CATOLENA owned by Joe Payne 

7 261 DAVID SMITH riding CANTAUR PARK KID U NOT owned by David Smith 

8 258 MARK BUTTSWORTH SALT AND CAT owned by Jeremy Storrier 

= 9  257  WARWICK LAWRENCE COLD CHISEL owned byTom Donnelly 

= 9 257 BARRY JOHNSON riding LYNBROOK CON THIS owned by Barry Johnson 

The top drafting continued this morning with the cattle from Ellerston again running beautifully and the perfect recipe for the large numbers of 89 points we saw this morning. 

All 93 outside scores from Thursday went through to the second round and it was the 2015 Classic Graduate EAGLE HUSTLER and Troy Clarke who came out at draw 72 and with a 90 took the lead in the first round. Their first round score of 86 points puts them in the top ten heading into the final round this afternoon. 

EAGLE HUSTLER was purchased in 2015 as a 2yo stallion by RJ & DG Sadler, Clarke Family from Peter Siejka from Blayney, NSW. 

A stately stallion from the get-go, added to his successful campdrafting career coming equal second as a 4yo at the 2018 Nutrien Classic and this year winning the 2023 Dalgety Animal Health Stallion Shootout. 

He is by HAZELWOOD CONMAN and out of the WARRENBRI OMEGA mare KIRKBYS STUD BONITA. 

We are also very thankful to the Clarke and Sadler family for donating a service fee to the winner of tomorrow 2023 Nutrien Nursery Campdraft. 
 

A slew of 89 points for 2nd round today and there will be 30 competitors heading to the final now starting at 4pm. 

• Joe Payne BONNIEDOON KANYA CATOLENA (86) JOE PAYNE, 22, 63, 4, 89, 175 
• Murray Wilkinson SCATT (80) CAMILLA REA, 22, 63, 4, 89, 169 
• Troy Palmer BINNIA CONVOY (88) WILLINGA PARK & TROY PALMER, 22, 63, 4, 89, 177 
• Ben Stanger SLIPS JUST ROCKIN (82) BEN & CHERI STANGER, 22, 63, 4, 89, 171 
• Wyatt Young BINNIA MILAN (84) WYATT YOUNG, 22, 63, 4, 89, 173 
• Troy Palmer BOMBOWLEE COWCHICK (89) TROY PALMER, 22, 63, 4, 89, 178 
• Mat Holz SHEKERAS TAPT IN (90) KOOYOONG PASTORAL P/L, 22, 63, 4, 89, 179 
• Richard Pfingst THE RANCH PANDORA (82) RICHARD PFINGST, 22, 63, 4, 89, 171 

FINAL DRAW: https://www.nutrienequine.com.au/mas23-draws/ 

PLEASE NOTE the Graduate Final is now starting at 4pm. Could all finalists please marshall at the camp for a 3.50pm Grand Entry.

What a stunning day we are having here at Tamworth. If you are not here, you are missing a brilliant day and excellent display of drafting.
Thank you to Jo Thieme Photography for these fantastic shots.

🟪 Not long till the start of the second day of sale. We are currently up to 78 in the draw of the 2nd round of the 2023 Nutrien Graduates Campdraft.

👏 Thank you again to Leah & Luke Whitehead for their very kind donation of a service fee to Bonlac Gigolo to the winner of this evenings competition.

Watch Live: https://www.nutrienequine.com.au/mas23-webcasts-2/

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🙌 Update 

🟪 Lot 44 DUALALTTIC Topped the day one of the 2023 Nutrien Masters Sale, being sold after going to print for $40,000. 

This impressive gelding is by DUAL REY and out of the lovely METALLIC CAT mare, SWEETALLIC. On account of Julie Sheedy from Glen Innes, NSW, DUALTALLIC was sold to CW REA INVESTMENTS PTY LTD in Marlbourgh, QLD.

🟪 The top price at the end of the sale with $37,500, was Lot 38 EBS RONALDO on account of Troy and Fiona Palmer from Coolah NSW. 

EBS RONALDO is a 7 yo gelding by OAKS JACKHAMMER out of a DOCS SPINIFEX mare EB S LADYSPIN. Bred by the Hodgman family up at Glen Innes, he is a fully trained cutting gelding and will be ready to head straight to competition for new owners Ben & Lee Traynor from Burragillo Farming at Moree, NSW.

The third top price and third top price gelding was Lot 8 BANDYS CHEVORLET selling for $36,000. This popular gelding is a multiple open cow horse champion, LTE of $80,000, and has an impressive list of career achievements that would have been attractive to buyer, Matt Morgan, Mineral X Pty Ltd from Tallygaropna.

‘Chev’ is by WALLABAH EXCEL – HSH out of MUCKA BUNDI CORVETTE and was sold on account of Adam Wrobel from Dalswinton in the lower Hunter NSW.

Selling for $35,000 was Lot 43 METALLIC MYSTERY on account of Megan Richards. As the name implies this gelding is by METALLIC CAT and out of a DUAL REY mare in YULGILBAR ELEGANT REY. METTALIC MYSTERY is another fully trained cutting gelding that will be exciting for the new owner David Falzon, 4X Cattle Co from Cathkin VIC.

Late in the day saw two mares sell for $30,000. First of the two was Lot 52 TYRELL PARK DUALLY GIRL on account of John Poplawski from Highfields QLD. This 8 yo mare was bred by Brian Elliot from Tyrell Park and is by WINDERADEEN ALILSHORTNIN out of DUALLIN FRITZ. Another fully trained cutter, this mare was shown by Lacey Elliott and will be a pleasure on the truck for new owner Troy Trevor, TD Cattle Co from Charters Towers in QLD.

Second last in the sale today was Lot 58 on account of Adam Sadler from Bunnan, NSW, was 7yo RELDAS SCANDAL SPIN. This SELIGMAN SPIN mare is out of NIGHTCAP LENA. She is sure to be a ton of fun for new owner Rosie Bloch from Inverell, NSW.
Program tomorrow will be the second round of the 2023 Nutrien Graduates draft with 93 competitors.

Draws are on the website now.

The second half of the 2023 Nutrien Masters Sale will commence in the main arena at midday with the final of the Graduate draft to commence outside at 6pm.

We have had great interest all over Australia with bid card registered in every state of Australia.
It’s not too late to register yourself to purchase at the sale tomorrow.

✳️✳️ 2023 Bidding & Buying Information ✳️✳️

Bid Card registrations are now open online through the NutrienLive Portal.
🔗 https://portal.nutrienequine.com.au/catalogues/79?to=bidcards

🟦 ONLINE BIDDING 👉📲💻🖥

Online Bidding will be held through AuctionsPlus.
⚠️ Please ensure you have an account with them. If you do not, you can register here. https://auctionsplus.com.au/register

Once set up with an AuctionsPlus account, please fill out our Online bid card registration process on the NutrienLive portal and select that you wish to bid online. Please enter your Auctions Plus Usercode into the drop-down box (this can be found on your AuctionsPlus Dashboard)

👏 Once your registration has been approved, your account will be set up to Bid on the Nutrien Classic Horse Sale with Auctions Plus.

☎️ Phone Bidding ☎️
If you wish to Bid over the phone, please contact Laura Lawrence on 0428 658 395. 
👉 If you can also pre-register your bid card online this will allow speed up the process of getting you set up and ready to bid.

#nutrienmasterssale23 #nutrienequine #auctionsplus

With thanks to the Knight family the cattle ran beautifully and an incredible 48% of the runs had outside scores with all of these heading to the second round on Saturday morning.

2023 Nutrien Graduates Campdraft 2nd Round Draw

A big thankyou to Luke and Leah Whitehead for the donation of a service fee to BONLAC GIGOLO to the winner of the 2023 Nutrien Graduates draft.

2023 Nutrien Masters Sale is underway ith Lot 1-60 being sold this afternoon.

Watch Live & 🆓 from our website for the entire event.

MAS23 Webcasts

#nutrienequine #masterssale #graduatecampdraft

Could not have asked for better weather after yesterday’s storm for the first day of drafting at the 2023 Nutrien Equine Masters Sale & Campdraft event.

Kicking off a 11am with the first full round of the 2023 Nutrien Graduate draft, we had 203 competitors competing for total prize pool of over $150,000.

First rider to crack the 90 points this morning was Mark Buttsworth riding WICKED TIME at draw 72. WICKED TIME is a dual Graduate being purchased by Doug O’Neil in 2018 from Bettina and Jimmy Lyons as a 2yo for $18,000 only to be repurchased by Bettina and Jimmy in 2021 for $24,000 and now have the opportunity to put that fortuitous opportunity in the bank with a great first round score.

Halfway through the draw came David Smith riding the impressive G IM HARD, who needs no introduction to the Classic Graduate list as a two time Nutrien Challenge winner as well as winning the prestigious Cloncurry Stockman’s Challenge as a 3yo. They scored a 91 point round and have lead the competition to the end with that score.

Late in the day was two more 90-point scores to join Mark, first was Shane Palmer riding TASSAS LITTLE DESTINY owned by Yvette Palmer. Purchased out of last years inaugural 2022 Nutrien Masters Sale, this gelding is by TASSA LENA out of the ACRES DESTINY mare CHIQUITAS DESTINY. Sold by Kelly Owen from Moonbi NSW for $25,000.

Also, on a 90 was Mat Holz riding Kooyoong Pastorals entry of SHEKERAS TAPT IN who was purchased in the 2020 Nutrien Classic for $35,000 from Jabell Partnership. She is by the imported stallion TAPT DANCIN CAT and out of JABELL SHEKERA SPIN who is also a Nutrien Graduate and former winner of the Masters campdraft in 2014.

Four competitors round out the top scoring runs of the day with 89 points.

• Ben Rossiter riding TREASURED ACRES owned by Ben Rossiter
• Jessie Britton riding CHAPMANS STYLISH JEWEL owned by Jessie Britton
• Troy Palmer riding BOMBOWLEE COWCHICK owned by Troy Palmer
• Joe Payne riding BRENWON JACKETTE owned by Curtis Cherry.

We look forward to our first day of sale tomorrow and preworks.

Preworks will kick off in the main indoor arena at 8am with the sale beginning at 2pm.

✳️✳️ 2023 Bidding & Buying Information ✳️✳️

Get ready to find your perfect champion at the 2023 Masters Sale!

Do you know when is the PERFECT time to get your bid card sorted….it’s now.

Bid Card registrations are now open online through the NutrienLive Portal.

🔗 https://portal.nutrienequine.com.au/catalogues/79?to=bidcards

🟦 ONLINE BIDDING 👉📲💻🖥

Online Bidding will be held through AuctionsPlus.

⚠️ Please ensure you have an account with them. If you do not, you can register here. https://auctionsplus.com.au/register

Once set up with an AuctionsPlus account, please fill out our Online bid card registration process on the NutrienLive portal and select that you wish to bid online. Please enter your Auctions Plus Usercode into the drop-down box (this can be found on your AuctionsPlus Dashboard)

👏 Once you registration has been approved, your account will be set up to Bid on the Nutrien Classic Horse Sale with Auctions Plus.

Please ensure you complete this process at least 24 hours prior to the sale commencing to ensure your account is set up to bid.

☎️ Phone Bidding ☎️

If you wish to Bid over the phone, please contact Laura Lawrence on 0428 658 395.

👉 If you can also pre-register your bid card online this will allow speed up the process of getting you set up and ready to bid.

FOR ALL THESE DETAILS ⤵️

2023 NUTRIEN BUYING AND BIDDING INFORMATION

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