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The 2025 National Snaffle Bit Association Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale brought a total of $1,814,000 in total sales on  yearlings on Friday night, August 15, featuring some of the best Hunter Under Saddle, Western Pleasure and All Around bloodlines in the industry.

The top ten horses sold for an average of $49,400, and the top 30 horses sold for $38,075. The overall sold average was $16,541.22.

The High Selling Yearling and Highest Selling filly was Hangg Tight Honey/VQH Hangg Tight Honey (The Best Martini x One Hot Mouse), who was consigned by Voge Quarter Horses and sold for $75,000. The High Selling Gelding was Freezer Burn/Freeze Burn (Fiire N Ice x Only A Trouble Maker), who sold for $60,000 and was consigned by Nick Weiss. The High Selling Colt was Sudden Money (RL Best Of Sudden x Good Money Machine), who sold for $11,700 and was consigned by Oak Spring Ranch.  The High Selling Hunter Under Saddle horse was Once And For Al (Allocate Your Assets x The Good Bay), who was consigned by Kelly Kurth.

“The 2025 NSBA Markel Insurance BCF Yearling Sale was on par with our 2024 sale, and saw a very nice group of horses sell,” noted Bill Kaven, NSBA Yearling Sale manager. “With such a broad range of horse enthusiasts on the grounds for the NSBA World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity, consigners have an opportunity to reach a wide group of potential buyers, making the NSBA yearling sale a popular sale venue.”

The Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale is a limited entry consignment sale designed to bring many of the nation's top yearlings to public sale. The sale is only open to yearlings enrolled in the NSBA Breeders Championship Futurity or NSBA Color Breeders Championship Futurity and is held in conjunction with the NSBA World Championship Show each year.
New in 2025, the sale preview was broadcast live online for those who could not be present.

Yearlings purchased in the 2025 sale will become eligible for purse set aside for sale graduates who would compete in a designated Breeders Championship Futurity class in either their two year old year in 2026 or three year old year in 2027. Sale graduates must place in the top ten in their designated BCF class to earn their share of the sale graduate purse.

To date the NSBA Markel Insurance BCF Yearling Sale has generated an additional $1,693,123.00 that sale graduate owners may earn in addition to Breeders Championship Futurity money.
To learn more about the NSBA Markel Insurance Breeders Championship Futurity Yearling Sale, graduate program or consider consigning to the 2026 sale, please visit nsba.com/yearling-sale.

About NSBA

Established in 1983, National Snaffle Bit Association has expanded from its roots in the Western Pleasure discipline to recognize various disciplines and eight breed associations in competition. NSBA’s mission is to grow the show horse community through various equine programs and events where every activity benefits horses, breeders, owners and exhibitors alike.

National Snaffle Bit Association has more than 20,000 active members and more than 44,000 registered horses across its eight alliance breed organizations. NSBA members earn more than $13.5 million in monetary awards at NSBA-sanctioned horse shows annually, and the association sanctions nearly 600 horse show events and close to 200,000 horse show entries each year.

To learn more about NSBA, please visit nsba.com.
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