Combining the last five years of selling yearlings at the Standardbred Horse Sales Company auction in Harrisburg, PA, Preferred Equine has sold over $26.2 million worth of horses and ranked either as the second or third leading consignor by gross behind perennial leader Hanover Shoe Farms. Considering Preferred represents dozens of smaller breeders, that’s a remarkable record of achievement, and we’re not even talking, yet, about the success of Preferred’s mixed sales offerings.
Preferred owner David Reid said he’s proud of the diversity in this year’s yearling consignment.
“Diversity is definitely the key, as it always is with Preferred Equine representing so many different breeders,” Reid said. “We have a wider range of sires and I’m looking forward to another typical Harrisburg yearling sale, for sure.
“This year, we’re representing 43 breeders in our consignment at the Harrisburg yearling sale and we have all jurisdictions represented with 23 New York-eligible, almost 30 Jersey-eligible, 24 Ontario-eligible, over 50 Pennsylvania-eligibles. We have a lot of Ohio-eligibles and then, in addition to that, we have multiple that are dual-eligible, either to Kentucky or Virginia. We have a number of Virginia-breds and a number of Kentucky-breds. On top of that, we have triple-eligibles with the Massachusetts program and the Virginia program. We have 12 Massachusetts-eligibles as well…