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| Prior Mountian Mustangs Adoption News
http://www.pryormustangs.org/mustang_blog.shtml Quote:
Well, the adoption finished up earlier this afternoon. Every single horse found a new home. Watch for a new post soon with photographs from the weekend along with information on things like the amount of money each horse brought. I’ve added on some updates to the original post. Just for sake of interest, I will say that Conquistador was the highest selling horse for $2500. There was definitely a bidding war going on there. He wasn’t the only horse to break $2000 – Hickory went for $2100. A good number of horses also went for over $1000. Some horses also went for the starting bid of $125. As I went around and talked with people, it seemed that each person was extremely happy no matter what the cost, though. I was very impressed with the people giving these Pryor horses new homes. It was really nice to hear of where these horses will go and what their futures may hold.
Also, we were able to work in conjunction with the Monero Mustang Sanctuary in finding a new home for the stallion Stiles. I’d doubt there were too many other times when $50 went toward such a worthy project. We are very excited to know that Stiles is going to this sanctuary; we are sure his new life there will be wonderful. Please visit the Monero website for more information on the great work they do. Also expect future posts following Stiles as he goes to his new home.
| http://billingsgazette.com/news/stat...cc4c03286.html Quote:
Along with several other Western states, other bidders came from Virginia, Florida and Texas. The BLM auctioned the mustangs by tag number, but each has been named by the Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center. The nonprofit center generally supports the roundups, or "gathers," as they're called. Saturday's auction was the largest ever for Pryor horses, said the center's director, Matt Dillon. In 2006, the BLM auctioned some horses online.
"That was not so good. This is better," he said. "This way, people can see them and look them over, and people have come from all over to participate."
Although some of the horses didn't draw even the minimum bid, all 57 mustangs were eventually taken, said Mary Apple, a BLM spokeswoman.
A 19-year-old stallion named Conquistador drew the highest bid at $2,500. Several others went for more than $1,000.
And those prices come at a time when the horse market is so depressed that a trained and registered horse can sometimes be gotten for free.
"We were pleased with the prices," Apple said. "We know the market for horses has been tough. The interest in these horses is because they're Pryor horses."
That's why Robert Vinzant of Lovell bought one for $225. He's never trained a horse.
"It's that lineage. It's where they come from," he said. "It something few people will ever get to have."
Sheila Leach bought a grulla-colored mare named Havasu for $1,100. Her friend whooped when Leach won the bidding. Leach has three mules and a thoroughbred on her property in Cody, Wyo. She wants to have the mustang trained for use as a trail horse. Her husband had a mustang that "didn't work out." The horse would spin and dump him.
| Notice the bolded red? Looks to me like the broo-ha-ha about the older stallion going to "kill buyers" was a lot of nonsense 
ETA: and yes, I know the "Cloud foundation" bought him among others, but they had to bid to $2,500 which meant is sure wasn't any "meat man" that was bidding against them.
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