Wow. Those were some great prices! Rumor has it they’re already planning another sale, maybe for April during their spring rodeo. Clearly I’m going to have to go to that one!
Start saving your money now!!! 
Holy Crap the yearling that I was in love with went for only $300! I may have to take a trip when I sell my guy and am looking for my next prospect.
Question - how come some of the horses in the Sales Catalogue have an “Owner” listed - is this the person that bought them at the sale, or is this something else?
I highly recommend the documentary “The Farm: Angola, USA” (1998) - a real eye opener.
Looking through the results, it looks like you could pick up a mare for a really decent price! A few of the one’s I had my eye on look like they are still available.
Any northerners with truck and trailer want to split gas money in the spring? 
ETA: For those who attended the sale - were there no bids on the horses that didn’t sell, or was there a reserve?
There was an article on the sale in the Sunday edition of The Advocate in Baton Rouge. You can access the article by doing a search for “2theadvocate” which will bring you to their site. It is called “2theadvocate” because the same family owns Channel 2 and the paper.
According to the article, the auction raised $77,100 and “trimmed” LSP’s warmblood herd by 100. Lt. Col. Harvey Slater who works with Angola’s horse program is quoted extensively in the article. He said the warmblood breeding program was several decades old and that the herd of 170 was large enough to allow the prison to trim its numbers and raise some money at the same time.
He said the prison was not selling the horses because of budget cuts or rising cost of feed. Horses not sold would be put back into the herd according to Slater. One of the high dollar horses- a 6-year-old Percheron-TB cross was sold to Donald Nunez of Slidell for $5,100. Nunez said he was going to train the horse for mounted patrol and, hoped to have him ready by Mardi Gras because the horse already had been under saddle.
Sandy and Doug Russell or Norwood, LA (just a few miles from me) bought four horses for dressage and jumping. “They were a great bargain,” Doug was quoted as saying. The couple was reported to have said they would have bought more if they had brought more money to the sale. They said they would come back next year prepared to buy if there is another sale.
Danny Hoover, agricultural program director at Angola said the sale’s proceeds will be used to buy equipment, keep up property and fund the offender incentive wages system of the statewide Prison Enterprises program.
Warden Burl Cain was pleased with the sale, so others will probably be held in the future. The state contracted with a professional auction house that conducted the sale on the prison grounds.
So there you have it.
Hello,
I apologize for resurrecting an old thread, but this topic is fascinating to me. Does anyone here know what breed of horses these are, from LSP: http://www.volunteerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Volunteers-plan-an-elaborate-funeral.jpg ? Why does the prison use these horses for the funeral? I am a Humanities student writing about LSP’s funeral procession. It is by far the most decadent funeral service that I’ve across from any prison in the U.S.
They look like Percherons.
The Louisiana Dept of Corrections/Prison Enterprises has raised Percherons for years. I believe the inmates either made the funeral carriage or renovated it. It probably is just one of the many ‘traditions’ a the prison. Some prisoners work around the grounds taking care of the livestock, working in the fields (they raise vegetables, etc.), they also create various forms of arts and crafts which are sold at their bi annual prison rodeos.
I recommend watching the documentary 'The Farm" -I think that was the name to get a better idea of the ‘culture’ at LSP (Angola).
There was also the Animal Planet series, “Louisiana Lockdown”.
