Those VDL prospects are getting good prices!
$150K for a 4 yo mare! Zirocco Blue x Indoctro
So far, only Gambo has gone for less than 100K with the jumping horses. Interestingly, the two dressage horses went for $75k and $85k, I think.
8 yo gelding, jumping 1.40m, Hold Up Premier x Orame only 80K 
Is it just me or do some of those young horses look like they were poled 
5 yo gelding, Baltic x Argentinus, 72K
5 yo gelding, Bugatti x Burggraaf 70K
They kept saying the last one was by Bugatti that was showing at WEF? Anyone have the pedigree, I think they have the wrong Bugatti if they are talking about Wilhelm Genn’s gelding by Heartbreaker. What Bugatti are they talking about?
6 yo mare, Caretano x Chin Chin 70K
Honestly, I enjoy watching (and I am more familiar with) the Keeneland and Fasig Tipton thoroughbred auctions.
This auction seems comparatively like an infomercial. Very unprofessional and haphazard with the hip#s presented in no particular order .
There seem to be a few familiar voices from the TB auctions, but oh my… the one guy (not the auctioneer) is so unpleasant to listen to. He seems (to me) to have a future in selling windows or flooring etc… on television.
Of course his oft mentioned lack of a “beverage” may be cramping his style for all I know. 
They posted the order of “go” down further on the page.
Titan, you can look up the pedigrees and videos on the auction website.
skydy, i have no idea about the TB auctions but for this one, they offered free pre-vet and radiographs to potential buyers, plus a previous professional “viewing” (that’s where the jumping footage came from) and people and/or their trainers/riders could try any of the horses in the week leading up to this auction. None of the horses were unknown quantities to the bidders.
Is it over or still going on? I’m hearing music. And not seeing much.
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They posted the order of “go” down further on the page.
Titan, you can look up the pedigrees and videos on the auction website.
skydy, i have no idea about the TB auctions but for this one, they offered free pre-vet and radiographs to potential buyers, plus a previous professional “viewing” (that’s where the jumping footage came from) and people and/or their trainers/riders could try any of the horses in the week leading up to this auction. None of the horses were unknown quantities to the bidders.[/QUOTE]
Those pre-auction vet checks, the depository of x-rays and vet reports, as well as walking the beast out for observation (as weanlings and yearlings are not ridden ) are taken for granted at the high end TB auctions.
Nothing, comparatively, special about this auction…
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They kept saying the last one was by Bugatti that was showing at WEF? Anyone have the pedigree, I think they have the wrong Bugatti if they are talking about Wilhelm Genn’s gelding by Heartbreaker. What Bugatti are they talking about?[/QUOTE]
Bugatti VDL - http://www.horsetelex.nl//horses/pedigree/365406
Silverstone x Indoctro, -mieka damline
Will they publish the buyers and the sale prices?
The lady who bought the high sale horse yesterday…last week she was saving a dun mare from the kill pen at New Holland. Love that!
Fürsten Vera: $75,000
JJ Jaguar: $85,000
VDL De Beers: $190,000
Fabriano VDL: $400,000
VDL Dorusino: $195,000
VDL Endorado Ryal K: $140,000
VDL Dolonie H: $150,000
VDL Debora S: $130,000
Everglade VDL: $115,000
VDL Glenn BH: $135,000
VDL Gina: $150,000
VDL Gambo: $83,000
VDL Ziron: $70,000
VDL Casanova: $80,000
VDL Fort Knox: $72,000
VDL Ferrari SMH: $70,000
VDL Enni: $70,000
VDL Davidoff M: SCRATCH
thanks for posting the final results!
I LOVED the gray, Fabriano. But I’m a hunter person and he was just lovely. By far my favorite, but according to purchase price, I have good taste! lol.
I thought a couple of the younger ones, shown jumping only small grids and a few singles, went for more than I expected. I know bloodlines play a big role, but I would think there would be a LOT of domestically-bred horses at the same level of training, with similar lines, to be priced at half what those VDL horses went for. Am I missing something obvious, or is part of the appeal the glitz and glamor of the auction experience, and the prestige of getting one that way?
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The lady who bought the high sale horse yesterday…last week she was saving a dun mare from the kill pen at New Holland. Love that!
Fürsten Vera: $75,000
JJ Jaguar: $85,000
VDL De Beers: $190,000
Fabriano VDL: $400,000
VDL Dorusino: $195,000
VDL Endorado Ryal K: $140,000
VDL Dolonie H: $150,000
VDL Debora S: $130,000
Everglade VDL: $115,000
VDL Glenn BH: $135,000
VDL Gina: $150,000
VDL Gambo: $83,000
VDL Ziron: $70,000
VDL Casanova: $80,000
VDL Fort Knox: $72,000
VDL Ferrari SMH: $70,000
VDL Enni: $70,000
VDL Davidoff M: SCRATCH[/QUOTE]
Thank you! I’m so excited about “Dun Roamin’” aka Romie and Fabriano VDL (Fab).
I bet! Big Congratulations!
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Is it just me or do some of those young horses look like they were poled :/[/QUOTE]
It is my understanding that poling is still a common training technique in many jumper barns - both in Europe, and in the US, South America, etc. Many folks will deny-deny-deny it, but rumors/reports still leak out into the outside world.
FWIW, at an Oldenburg stallion licensing some years back, there were several young stallions that wowed some folks in the audience with their jumping technique, but didn’t wow the inspectors. The stallions in question were not awarded premiums, and a knowledgeable person sitting in the audience explained to the Americans sitting with him that it was obvious those horses had been poled. And also said it was an ongoing training technique in jumper barns throughout Germany, Holland, Belgium. etc.
