2009 SALMON SELECT SALE RESULTS
Editors Note: Individual Sale Results are being posted! Thanks!
Warming up on a beautiful sunny, seventy degree day, the largest crowd in Sale history attended the 37th Annual Salmon Select Horse Sale, Saturday, April 18th at the Lemhi County Fairgrounds. Sale results were very steady, with this year’s Sale bids grossing $311,200. Viola Anglin, age 88, owner and proprietor of the Tendoy Store for sixty years was introduced as Grand Marshal of the 2009 Salmon Select Horse Sale. The crowd gave Viola a large round of enthusiastic applause thanking her for her many years of hard work and service to the community.
The Tom Spencer family d/ba/, Flint Creek Quarter Horse Ranch, of Drummond, Montana again took home top sale honors selling, Sunpoint Bo, a seven year old top notch, pro caliber rope horse. The buckskin AQHA gelding sold to Warren Anders for $10,000. The Spencers received the $1,000 Super Sale Bonus and the Salmon Select Sale trophy belt buckle. Both awards are sponsored by Salmon area motels. Anders received a trophey bit representing the Louis Andersen Memorial Award sponsored by Jerry’s Cowboy Tack of New Plymouth, Idaho. Anders also received the Jack Omohundro Memorial buckle. Jack bought the high selling horse in the first Horse Sale back in 1971.
The Spencers next sold the reserve high selling gelding, Colonel Dual Peppy. This eight year old fancy broke, cutting and roping quarter horse sold for $7,500 to Vern Bailey of Buhl, Idaho after wowing the crowd by winning the Open Ranch Horse Competition. The gelding earned the $1,000 cash money sponsored by Salmon River Motors and Quality Motors of Salmon. The Spencers received the John W. Snook Memorial buckle sponsored by the Snook family.
High selling grade horse at $5,700 was Wyatt, a super well broke nine year old finished heeling rope horse consigned by Tim Cobb of Weiser, Idaho. The good gelding also won the Open Performance Champion buckle judged and presented by the Lemhi County Sheriff’s Possee. Members of the Sheriff’s Posse were a great addition to this year’s Sale. The posse assisted with general crowd information, crowd security and inspected the sale mules for transport after the Friday night Mule Sale.
The high selling mare was consigned by Bob and Diana Neilson of Mackay, Idaho. Their beautiful black three year old filly shown by trainer, Toby Lapp sold for $6,000 to Tim Rose of Colorado. The Neilsons were awarded the Ed Jones Memorial buckle sponsored by the Salmon River Inn.
Champion Ranch Horse mare was Leos Stormy Legacy, a nine year old palomino consigned by Ike and Shanna Thomas of Malta, Idaho. She won the Texaco/Burger King buckle for high point competition mare. The versatile mare was also second in the Trail Horse Open Competiton.
A horse many thought to be the best horse at the Sale was Lot 30A, Silver Nic. Consigned by horse trainer, Julie Boer of Rigby, Idaho, the grey AQHA gelding was only two years old. Despite being just a two year old, he won the Novice Division of the Ranch Horse Competition and earned the Charlie Snook Memorial Buckle sponsored by the Gary Barrett’s Lantern Bar. He also earned $500 sponsored in part by Robb Green’s Featherlite Trailers of Twin Falls. The good gelding next earned second place in the Open Performance Class competing against all the older horses. Finally, he earned the Omohundro-Carroll Breeder’s Award of $500 sponsored by JoAnn Carroll. This good gelding sold to Julie and Dave Williams of Sandy, Utah for $6,300. The Williams own Salmon’s Texaco and Burger King and are sponsors of the Horse Sale each year.
The Yearling/Two Yearl Old Award of $300.00 Sponsored by Rigby’s Pharmacy went to JoAnn Carroll of Salmon. Her APHA gelding sold for $1,750.
Friday afternoon’s Ranch Horse Competition was very exciting. Judge Scott England of Leadore again judged the event. Tom Spencer riding Lot 56 was the winner. This was the first year, Tom has won the event. Second was Lot 65 consigned and shown by Ike Thomas and Malta. Third place was Kirk Robertson’s Lot 33. Unfortunately, Kirk’s good gelding injured himself during or just after the Friday competiton and had to be scratched from the Saturday sale.
Cattle for the competiton were furnished by Roy, Sharon, RJ, Kevin and Katie Hoffman of the Hoffman Ranch.
The Trail Horse Competition drew a large crowd to watch to various tasks. This popular competition was under direction of Joe Garrett of Carmen. Joe was assisted by several volunteers who organized and judged the challenging ten phases. Lazyfourjackscommand consigned by Dean Price of Idaho Falls earned the Trail Horse Competition buckle presented by Shawn & Dale O’Rielly of Salmon River Funeral Chapel and Challis Funeral Chapel. Ike Thomas’s mare took second honors, followed by Jock Smith’s grullo gelding, Lot 40.
The two and three year old horse trail section was won by Lot 122 owned by Jose Flores of Parma, Idaho followed by Lot 103 consigned by Gregg and Moore of Princeton, Idaho.
Champion Rope Horse Buckle sponsored by Shane and Teresa Butts new owners of the Catch Pen Steakhouse was awarded to Ryan Markham of Bruneau, Idaho. His blue roan roping gelding was selected by judges in the roping showing before the Sale. The gelding sold for $5,500 to Greg Hull of Filer.
All sale averages were very strong considering area horse sales in general. The top five horses averaged $7,920, the top ten horses averaged $5,560, and the top twenty horses averaged $4,945. The overall sale average on 137 head was $2,272.
Top volume money buyer was Justin Franks of Queen Creek, Arizona who bought three horses for $11,600. Franks received the Fred H. Snook Sr. Memorial Buckle sponsored by the Salmon Valley Chamber of Commerce as high volume $$ horse sale buyers.
The top volume buyer by number of horses bought was the Flying Resort Ranches, Inc. of Salmon. They purchased five good horses and received the J. Wayne McArthur Award hat from Roy Jackson of Jacksonbilt Hat Co. In addition they earned a $750 rebate as the winner of the 4-5-6 rebate contest.
Linda and the late Gary Habeck received recognition as Horse Sale Consignors of the Year. A placque and trophey buckle sponosred by Gale Harding and Associates was presented in a short ceremony before their Lot 22 was sold. Harding, JoAnn Carroll and Bruce Mulkey made the presentation to Linda as Fred Snook spoke recognizing their many years of consigning top quality horses to the Sale. The Habecks topped the Sale several years in the 1990’s and established the all time high selling mark. Lot 22 was their spot in sale year after year. Gary was killed in a hunting accident in December, 2008 so this year’s Lot 22 will be their last horse sold in the Sale.
Tom Carlson of Leadore won the Hister Buckle sponsored by Lemhi Lumber and Allied Builders for having the high selling horse from Lemhi and Custer counties. His nine year old quarter horse mare, Dualin Sugar Jazz sold for $5,000. Thirteen area sellers had consignments in the Sale.
J Wayne McArthur of Franklin, Idaho was presented with a trophey buckle as SSS Alltime Champion. Mac sold the high selling horse in 1987. For many, many years he was the volume buyer in number of horses purchased at the Sale often buying six or more horses. He then resumed selling horses these past years. He has always bought and sold only top quality horses.
Young Wyatt Hurst of Dubois, Idaho was chosen to receive the Elizabeth H. Snook Memorial Buckle for being Champion Cowboy of the 2008 Sale. The award was presented by Laurie Ruggiero and Frederick Snook. Wyatt was chosen for his showmanship and bullwhipping abilities. Many young, young riders showed off their riding abilities during this year’s sale. A champion will again be chosen and receive a surprise buckle next year.
Lot 123 consigned by Tom Heacock of St. Regis, Montana selling for $4,000 earned the $500 bonus for being the high selling horse in the last twenty horses. Buyer Penny WeyMiller received a $500 rebate for buying the horse.
Toby Lapp of Filer, Idaho highlighted Thursday’s opening day of the Sale with the first of his three mini horse training clinics. His first clinic was part of the opening Welcome Party and was followed by a Cowboy Poets Gathering sponsored by the Salmon Art’s Council. The young filly Toby used in his clinic’s ended up being the high selling mare at $6,000. Trainer Lamoyn Thorelson of Colorado also presented two training clinics. Lamoyn was sponsored by Salmon River and Challis Funeral Chapels.
Ron Ellsworth of Salmon won $1,000 in cash sponsored in a drawing by Salmon River Motors and Quality Motors. More than 350 people signed up for the cash drawing. The Old Time Fiddlers entertained the crowd in the vendors’ Exhibition Building both days of the sale.
The smallest horse in the Sale was Lucky Lilly a nice, nice 2009 wooden rocking horse personally made and donated to the Sale by Randy Cheney of Salmon. Guaranteed to load easy in a trailer, car or pickup, will rock all day and night and easy to shoe and care for with an SSS brand on her hip, the rocking horse sold to Fred Snook for $125. Randy requested the money be donated to the Salmon EMT’s in recognition for all their volunteer efforts for area health care. Lilly was the 21st rocking horse that Randy has made and donated to local charities.
Many local youth groups participated in the sale. Salmon High School FFA club parked cars both Friday and Saturday to earn $400 for the club. The FFA also cleaned the sale building Friday night after the Mule Sale to earn an additional $100. The FFA students were excellent workers and the FFA program is on a strong rebound at Salmon High School under direction of Ms. Cooper.
Salmon Hockey, Salmon Baseball, 4-H, and Salmon Boosters all sold food. Salmon Hockey reported they made the most money ever in their Friday food booth. The Salmon Boosters sold almost 1,000 hamburger patties by 5:00 p.m. Money from the boosters goes to the SHS Senior Sober program and many people commented how well the class of 2009 worked at the food booth. In addition, the senior class under direction of China Orr took admission tickets Saturday morning to earn additional money toward this year’s senior graduation night event.
The Horse Sale helped sponsor a teen dance on Saturday night to help add a fun social event for local and visiting young people to enjoy.
The Salmon River Stampede local rodeo queen, Katey Gutman and her royalty, BreAnne Olson and Bailey Burgess presented the colors for the national anthem sung by Vicki Harbor on Saturday. The girls wore red to show their support for heart health and sponsored a free drawing for a Calcium Scoring Test. This test that can save your life. Kathy Hatch won the drawing.
The Lloyd Shaw Post 67 of the American Legion of Idaho lead by Post Commander Todd Brown presented the colors on Friday for the national anthem performed by Nick Tracy.
The Friday night Salmon Mule Sale had its largest crowd ever. People were amazed at how the Mule Sale has grown over these past ten years. Again prices for mules were higher, higher. Forty six mules sold for $85,800 for an average of $1,865. This was about a $100 per mule average over last year’s prices. Lindy Currie and Larry Gaustad of Belgrade, Montana again sold the high selling mule, Santa Fe for $4,500. This is the fourth year in a row Lindy and Larry have brought the high selling mule to the Sale. The good twelve year old john sold to Tim Rose of Florrisant, Colorado. Lindy and Larry received a $1,000 sale bonus sponsored in part by Chris Bird of Bird Tire Center plus a new hat from Roy Jackson’s Jacksonbilt Hat Co. Rose received a Montana Silversmith trophy buckle presented by Rulon Wellard of Wellard Constructors, Inc.
Levi King of Payette, Idaho took home reserve honors. His mule, Big Cowboy was the last mule in the sale and sold for $4,000. Levi received the $500 bonus and the buyer received a $500 sale rebate.
A new record was set this year when Leonard Haberman, a buyer from Palmer, Alaska purchased a mule. He plans to trailer down and pick up the mule as soon as it clears international equine health shipping requirements. Mules were consigned from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Wyoming.
The top five mules averaged $3,910 up from $3,800 in 2008 and the top ten mules averaged $3,365. Twenty mules each sold for $2,000 or higher.
New this year was a Mule Trail Competition. The Champion Buckle was awarded to Lot 2, consigned by Warren Mathews of Oregon. The buckle was sponsored by Bruce and Ross Cole of Cole Insurance Agency-Farmers Insurance agents of Salmon. Mathews was also recognized as Mule Sale Consignor of the Year and received a buckle plus a placque sponsored by Mike Peterson and Walt Lewis of Salmon Valley Print.
Kevin Nesbitt of Emmett, Idaho took first and second in the "Novice/Young" Mule section with Lots # 46 and 36.
The large crowd made it again necessary to "expand" the fairgounds. Local rancher John Ziegler allowed the use of his adjoining field. A tent city sprang up in his field, just like old gold rush days and John was declared the mayor of Ziegway also known as Little Leesburg. John was thanked by Fred Snook for his generosity and was presented a special mule sale winter coat as a token of appreciation.
More than twenty beautiful Montana Silversmith trophey belt buckles were awarded during the two sales. Their value was almost $4,000. Steve Beller of McPherson’s of Salmon helped design the many buckles and greatly assisted as Sale buckle coordinator.
Gale Harding of Rexburg served as sale auctioneer. Gale has been associated with the Sale for more than thirty years. Ring men were Rob McDowell of Butte, Montana, Scott Perkins of Deer Lodge, Montana, Dave Stanger of Idaho Falls, Dan Williams of Rexburg, Jim Wiley of Bozeman, Montana, Jay Wiley, Bruce Mulkey, George Harkrader, Bob Loucks, Rick Hussey and Anthony Littleton all of Salmon. Hussey also serves as outside arena announcer for the Ranch Horse, Open Perfomrance and Rope Horse showings.
Williams received a trophey buckle as Ringman of the Year. Linda Harkrader served as Sale Clerk assisted by a fine group of volunteer clerks with Laurie Ruggiero serving as Sale Coordinator and Vendor Chief.
Bob and Reba Thomas of Salmon sold the high selling buggy. They owned the buggy for about ten years. They ordered the buggy and harness to be custom built by the Amish of West Kootenai, Montana. It would convert to either a one horse or two horse buggy. Bob and Reba used it for many years in parades such as Salmon River Days and other special events. The buggy sold to Karl Tyler of Leadore.
The 4-H Stallion Service results are not totally complete. Eleen Cooper’s AQHA stallion, Tyroan Jets Pride topped the auction selling for $575 to Jay Wiley of Carmen, Idaho. Both Jay and Eleen received buckles awarded to the seller and buyer of the high selling stud. These trophey buckles were sponsored by Eagle Valley Ranch of Salmon. Barrel racing results and team roping results are not yet available.
There was no winner of the $1,000 Pick Six Contest sponsored by Main Street Realty. The six winning numbers in order were, 11, 33A, 56, 30A, 77 and 42A. Consolaton winners of $25 each were Tricia Miller and Tessa Gilpin both of Salmon, Jon Cruson of Potomac, Montana and Carol Cordova of Challis.
Team Roping Results have been received and will be posted.
Barrel racing results coming.
