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17 Mar
2024
2023 NCHA National Finals: Lincoln Veraart Cutting Horses

Lincoln Veraart Cutting Horses, what a week! Success across the board, everyone going home happy! ๐—”๐—ช๐—”๐—ฅ๐——๐—ฆ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—˜๐—•๐˜€ ๐——๐—œ๐—š ๐—ง๐—›๐—œ๐—ฆ ๐—–๐—”๐—ง, owned by Paul Johnston. ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ก๐—–๐—›๐—” ๐—›๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—š๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฎ ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—–๐—›๐—” ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ข๐—ฃ๐—˜๐—ก ๐—ช๐—œ๐—ก๐—ก๐—˜๐—ฅ Scone Team results throughout the week include: โ€ข Open […]

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17 Mar
2024
Steve Smith collects 4 major Awards at NCHA National Finals

Steve Smith‘s performance in the 2023 awards stakes is nothing short of remarkable. He walks away with 4 of the Major Awards with Metallic Reyting. An outstanding performance since the day the teamed up has translated in to immeasurable success. ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ก๐—–๐—›๐—” ๐—ก๐—”๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—™๐—œ๐—ก๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—ฆ ๐—”๐—ช๐—”๐—ฅ๐——๐—ฆ ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—–๐—›๐—” ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—–๐—›๐—” […]

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16 Mar
2024
2023 NCHA National Finals Competition results

Held again at White Park Scone, the standard of competition did not disappoint.ย  Congratulations to the winners and placegetters at this year’s competition.

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01 Mar
2024
“To replace a good horse”

An article written by Craig Moore, Moore Horsemanship. (USA) โ€˜The best horses are built over years of hauling, hard work, tough times, good times, bad times, big spooks, little spooks, their mistakes, our mistakes and continual love and care. โ€˜No, your breaker can not turn your young prospect into your old faithful in 30, 60, […]

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15 Feb
2024
2024 Nutrien Classic Summation: Hazelwood Conman

It was announced prior to this year’s Sale that Hazelwood Conman’s progeny had sold in excess of $10 Million Dollars.ย  That figure has been blown out of the water following this year’s sale. Clearance: 96% (27/28 Sold) Gross: $1,582,500 Average: $58,611 Mares: 100% Clearance (12 Sold) Gross: $1,026,000ย  |ย ย Average: $58,500 Geldings: 90% Clearance (9/10 Sold) […]

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14 Feb
2024
2024 Nutrien Classic Competition Results

Congratulations to this year’s winners and placegetters.ย  Unprecedented numbers across the board.

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12 Feb
2024
2024 Nutrien Classic: The Year of the CONMANS!

They dominated the sale, one after the other, after the other. Conman holds many records, but siring 5 of the Top 7 horses at one of Australia’s Premier Horse Sales is something else! (Full results to follow.) It’s extra special that the top seller was owned by Terry & Chrissie Hall. All 5 are mares, […]

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10 Feb
2024
Mark Buttsworth snags his first Nutrien Classic win!

It feels like Mark Buttsworth has won everything there is to win, but this is his first NUTRIEN CLASSIC WIN. It must feel good. Nutrien said this victory is extra special for owner Dave Kennedy as HARD CURRENCY was sired by his now deceased stallion HARD HAT HENRY HARD CURRENCY and Mark not only won […]

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09 Feb
2024
Hazelwood Conspiracy & Will Durkin win Nutrien Classic Open!

The Hazelwood Conspiracy (by Hazelwood Conman) win in the Martins Stock Haulage Open Draft is just a really nice story. Owners, Evan and Kim Acton, purchased this beautiful Conman mare at the Nutrien sale as a 3yo. It was a single bid purchase of $40,000. She returned to Millungera to be Kimโ€™s horse, but fortunes […]

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05 Feb
2024
Lethal King Cole & Leah Read win 2024 Nutrien Classic Challenge

Lethal King Cole…”๐—” ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด!” One step closer tonight after his outstanding win with exceptional horsewoman and part owner Leah Read. Peter Shakspeare said of the win, “๐‘ฐ๐’•’๐’” ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚ ๐‘ด๐’†๐’๐’ƒ๐’๐’–๐’“๐’๐’† ๐‘ช๐’–๐’‘ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’๐’†๐’“, ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Ž ๐’•๐’ ๐’‘๐’†๐’‚๐’Œ ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’“๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’…๐’‚๐’š”. And he did! Huge congratulations to The Challenge Syndicate. The […]

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