Select Sale 2005  

Eager show riders & breeders headed into Tatura Showgrounds for the Kolbeach Select Sale. Kolbeach presented on the day twelve superbly breed youngsters ready to go on and into the showring and some selected broodmares ….some with foals at foot making it a package worth considering for studs keen to add to their breeding lines. Invited vendor Kirreway Stud also presented stock for this sale.

The venue was brilliant… the weather couldn’t have been ordered any better! and while everyone took up Kolbeachs kind offer of lunch under the oaks you could have been misgiven for thinking we had all headed up here for a social gathering, people from interstate, New Zealand all enjoyed the fine food and wine with the opportunity to inspect the lots pre-sale. It was a time to meet some great people and with the emphases on breeding learn more about what they are doing within their own studs.

Considering the Kolbeach ponies had travelled all the way from Port Lincoln to Tatura 18 hours in total, they looked great and the youngsters seemed to have taken the whole affair as an exciting excursion away from their rolling pastures of quietness were the Kolbeach stud is nestled. The broodmares some once stars of the showrings probably were thinking ‘oh no’ but after the sale a quick scan seeing the people that had brought them they can be assured they are once again going back to lazy days in the paddocks looking after kids.

On the whole …the day was a fantastic affair, well run and such an opportunity to see some beautiful horse flesh. Much excitement was headed towards the ‘colt’ Royalist, with the sad loss of his sire Camargue Tribute this was it… the chance to ensure the line goes on. The little bay stands at 13.1 hands and heavy interest had been shown for him from England, as well intense enquiries from with in Australia and New Zealand. Bidding opened and settled with some determined bidders …was he going to New Zealand or Australia or England? and Australia it is! South Australian’s Andrew Hunt & Charlotte Thompson are now the proud owners of Royalist for the winning bid of $20,000