Cherry Blossom Weekend Preview (Culpeper, VA)

In this episode, we head to Culpeper, Virginia for a preview of the Cherry Blossom Longhorn Sale happening April 17–18. We’re joined by Shawn Pequoignot and Chase Vasut to talk about what’s coming to town, what they’re watching for, and why this weekend has become a can’t-miss stop for Longhorn folks.

The schedule is stacked: Friday, April 17 at 11:00 AM kicks off with the Futurity, followed by the famous Ann Gravett party at 6:00 PM, where the Futurity results will be announced. Then on Saturday, April 18 at 11:00 AM, it’s time for the main event—the 2026 Cherry Blossom Longhorn Sale.

Tune in for a rundown of the weekend, the cattle, and the community that makes Cherry Blossom special—plus a few insights to help you plan, bid, and enjoy the trip.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

If you're new to our From the Pasture podcast, this is one of our special pre-sale episodes. Our regular shows feature ranch stories, breeder interviews, and cattle knowledge. But today we're focusing specifically on this weekend's Texas Longhorn sale. So if you're wanting to learn more about Texas Longhorn Cattle Markets or you're a registered Texas Longhorn breeder looking to expand your herd, you'll want to tune in to today's episode. I'm Jamie. And I'm Molly. We're the owners of Hired Hand Software and Hired Hand Live, and we're excited to bring you a closer look at this upcoming sale. In today's episode, we'll be talking with the sale host about consignments, sale details, and what to watch for in the ring. You can view consignments at hiredhandlive.com and in most cases, visit the consigners' hired hand-powered websites to learn more. Now let's jump into this weekend's sale preview.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

I'm here with Chase Vasut and Sean Peccano, two of the sale hosts for the upcoming Cherry Blossom Sale in Futurity, which is held in Culpeper, Virginia. Chase, Sean, and I will be talking about the sale details, sponsors, consigners, and of course the consignments. As we talk about the consignments, you can follow along on hiredhandlive.com. And if you want to dig deeper, take a look at the consigners hired hand websites. Well, you ready, guys? Should we start talking?

SPEAKER_02 1:18

Let's do this.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

Well, it feels like we just were at the Cherry Blossom sale not all that long ago. Like this past year, it seems, has flown by. I don't know how you guys feel the same.

SPEAKER_03 1:29

Yeah, absolutely. Time just keeps on ticking.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

So this sale has been going on. Temp has been taking place now for 30, over 30 years. And it's still, it's helped build a really great foundation of longhorn breeders along the East Coast. Um, Sean, I know you help Anne now, but before that, you and your family had longhorns in Pennsylvania for many years. What did that sale mean to you when you first started raising longhorns or getting just getting involved in the breed overall?

SPEAKER_03 2:01

Well, that's a good question because, you know, back seasons and I started raising longhorns when we were in high school. So back then there were no websites, there was no social media. Um, so you know, the sale was the only place we could go to actually talk to the to the well-known breeders that we, and the only way way we knew those breeders was through advertising and like the trails. So um, you know, to go to the sales and talk to those people um that, you know, were we only knew them through the magazines and and then to get to build a relationship with those people over the years, it was cool. And then um, seasons and I would always use these sales as a vacation. We would consign a cow, put it in the sale, and as long as she brought enough money to cover our expenses, consignment fees in the hotel, we looked at it as a free vacation, and that's what we've done our entire married life.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

Are there still people that you communicate with within the industry that you first communicated with or first talked to?

SPEAKER_03 3:06

I would say probably not. Dale Hunt, maybe. I um I remember Dale one of the Dale Hunt did an auction in the Trails magazine on a cow for his sister. Um, you know, and that was kind of cool because like we had to do it all through phone calls. It was an ad in the magazine, and you had to do phone calls with that, but probably Dale would be, and of course, Ann, but um, you know, they're really the only ones that I talked to back then that I would still talk to now.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

I guess I have more questions about this auction from a catalog for Dale's sister. How did that all work?

SPEAKER_02 3:40

That sounds interesting.

SPEAKER_03 3:42

Oh, they just they had a picture of a cow with a pedigree in there, and they did uh it was a silent bid from such and such a date, you know, and you had uh you you would call Dale on the phone with a with your bid, and it went from there, you know, and then he did he did reach out. Dad, my dad and I were actually going to partner on the cow and we got out bid on her, but he would reach out and be like, ah, you're out, and you know, and then we'd call him back and be like, okay, we'll do this. And then he'd call us back and say, Oh, you're out again. But yeah, that was it was kind of cool. Like I always remember that.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

All over the phone, and there was no texting either. All calls.

SPEAKER_03 4:20

No, no. That was when the cell phones looked like little bombs.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

Well, speaking of hosting a sale, we're talking about hosting a more traditional sale, not the call in with the phone type of sale. Um, you both of you have done been a host of a sale for many years now. Do you have any advice for people who are hosting a sale maybe within like their region of the US? Not necessarily, sorry, Chase, but in Texas, but like the smaller, more regional sales.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

My thought is seeing, I guess, from the outside perspective of do getting to do this one in Virginia, is it takes time to build your market. So, I mean, the cherry blossom, when it was the Gravit Babington and then the Gravit-Bavington Leonard, it, you know, it takes time. You look at what um uh Scott and Amelia have done over in Oregon and what Dan's done, Huntington with uh the um Great Northern Classic, is the first year they're a little smaller, but then you start to expand. Um, so Dan's sale, the barn's full, Scott's the I mean, the whole barn is full there, and you're starting to see prices get up, the quality of cattle as new people come in. So I guess when you start a regional sale, is don't go in with the expectation of we're gonna have a$10,000 average and there's gonna be 500 people here. You know, set it with the goal is, you know, the idea of this regional sale is to grow the market in our area and bring in new breeders. So we still count at the end of this sale. Um, I think one of our most exciting numbers is how many people did we meet for the first time or first time registered buyers. And I think that really will drive the success in the future to have a sale that's around for 20 or 30 years is you keep bringing in new people because you can't we can't run the cherry blossom and assume there's gonna be 30 people from Texas or 30 people from Virginia show up. So even this year we got a lot of new people, and I think that that should be your ultimate goal at the regional sale is bring in new people, create awareness of longhorns, and help build the market in that area.

SPEAKER_03 6:20

Yeah, I agree. And I and I think one of the most important things, and I know Ann stresses over it with uh the sales we do, is just to make it fun and family oriented, um, you know, and to change it up. We we try to change something on it all the time so it doesn't run into an idol. Um, you know, so that that kind of stuff where you just like Chase said, attract new people and you want the new people to tell their friends so that there's more new people every year.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

And I might be getting my years mixed up here, but was it last year, or maybe it was a year before, where after the sale, we just kind of all looked at each other and like that was so many new people. There was, I mean, it it felt like a good portion of the sale was new people.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Yeah, it was the majority. Was it it was this one last year, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_03 7:06

We had a ton of new last year.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

Yeah. Um, we yeah, there was a lot of uh promotional memberships given to the ITLA and TLBAA because they're like, I don't member number, I I don't have one. So that's cool.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Well, with you all having um being around multiple sales a year, is there a certain category of animals that tends to bring stronger prices at the cherry blossom, whether it be like cow calf pears, heifers, embryos, or is there certain genetics that typically perform better at the cherry blossom?

SPEAKER_03 7:38

I would say definitely the colorful first-time bred heifers um seem to do well. Uh, you know, a lot of these breeders are smaller up here and they don't have a whole pasture full of them, so they want nice, colorful ones. And um, you know, well, well-known genetics because of uh they just they see them in the magazines, they see the genetics on social media, and then that's that's the genetics that they want to go after.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

It seems like we'll bring in some new stuff, you know. I because what Sean would I think he'd agree. The East Coast is, I mean, there's just like down around Texas or Oklahoma, there's a lot of Loomis and Dale Hunt stuff. Up here, there's a lot of stall breeding, uh, the tallies, Jimmy Jones, all that kind of stuff. So if you get an outcross from there, um it it seems to do well. But yeah, Sean, like color, color and first timers.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

So we talked about new people. You know, we want to we welcome them to all the sales, you know, especially the cherry blossom. For those new people who are coming to the cherry blossom this year, what are some things that they should know that they can't find in the sale catalog? I guess Sean, this question is maybe directed more towards you with like the behind the scene things and then also with uh seasons in the office.

SPEAKER_03 9:20

Well, the we got we started putting signs up for where to unload at because that's uh you have to go around the back of the building. And when you pull in and see all the trailers out front, people automatically want to go to the front. So we started putting signs up for um parking because of the new people that we have coming or for unloading, because of the new people that we have coming, they don't know where to go. Um, you know, and then the rest is pretty well easy. Once they unload, we tell them where their cattle are. You know, they the hay and water is there for the first initial unloading, and um, they have to supply hay for the futurity animals, but the sale animals, hay and water supplied. And then in the office seasons just does a good job of taking care of things in there, and she gives them all the information they need and gets the better numbers and kind of keeps Dan straight a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

Well, should we jump into the schedule of events for the weekend?

SPEAKER_03 10:15

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Sean, I'll let you tell us about Thursday. I feel like that's your day.

SPEAKER_03 10:20

Yeah, we're just there all day long. So um Thursday, eight to five is what is unloading. And then uh, you know, if you're not gonna be there at a by five or somewhere close to that, just reach out and let us know. We don't want to wait around till eight o'clock if nobody's coming that late. And we'll accommodate, you know. We appreciate people coming the distance they come, so we do what we have to do to to get them unloaded.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

And I believe your phone number is in the sale catalog if somebody needs to get a hold of you.

SPEAKER_03 10:51

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

So moving on to Friday. What happens right away Friday morning?

SPEAKER_03 10:57

Uh Friday morning, you gotta show up and go through the heifers so you know what you're gonna bid on the Calcutta. And then the futurity starts at 11.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

How many entries do you have this year?

SPEAKER_03 11:09

133 entries. That's the most that I recall having at our futurity.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Nice. And who have you selected for judges?

SPEAKER_03 11:20

Our judges are Jedediah Seely, Mike Albanese, Harrison Yeager, Caitlin Blackwell, Heather Bray, and then we have a junior judge this year who uh his scores won't count, but he wants to do some practice and is Ricky McLeod's son, Ezra McLeod. So he's gonna be sitting up with the judges doing his scoring.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

That'll be fun for him. He's uh got quite the knowledge base of cows already in his little body.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

Yeah. He wants to get into it and originally he sent us a contract over and his pay was too high. So we're like, let's do a junior apprenticeship. And he's like, I can make that work with the schedule. So it's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

Yeah, the judge lineup was is pretty cool. We have um two newer judges, Harrison and um Heather Bray. I called Heather's husband, Sam, about judging, and Sam was like, Heather's better at it than I am, and I said, Why do you say that? And he said, She did all kinds of judging competitions and stuff, so she has a little background of that.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

So And Caitlin, is this her time? Is this Caitlin's first time?

SPEAKER_03 12:29

Uh she judged at the legacy, didn't she?

SPEAKER_02 12:31

Yeah, she judged there. And what a lot of people really don't know about Caitlin is, I mean, when I first got in, she was she was kind of one of Dan Groves um he had he he ran around all the country with all the ITLA kids and she was part of his show string. So she's been involved in Longhorns for 20-something years and started one of those that transitioned from the halter shows, got out, graduated, and has built her herd up. So she's a wealth of knowledge on cattle.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

What type of value do you think having a faturity along with the sale brings or adds for um the breeders, whether it's the faturity, whether they just have animals in the faturity or if they participate in the sale as well?

SPEAKER_03 13:11

I think it it's it just makes it more fun and it adds numbers. Um, you know, if you if you were just to go to the sale and you're not, you know, then then it's just that many animals there. Where with the futurities, I mean, we completely jam-pack the barn and then it gives you a chance to evaluate your own cattle against the other cattle in the industry, even if you don't bring any, if you just show up. Um, you know, you can look at my best heifer I have at home and then go to a futurity and be like, Dad Glenn, I should have brought her. She'd but she's better than all these.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

Yeah. And as we all are well aware, a big majority of the futurity animals currently showing are not for sale. Um, so it does give you an idea if you say, hey, you know, I'm looking at these cows in the lineup, but I want to see what you know these people are raising and are really proud of as well that they want to keep back for their herd. So it adds value because you get to show your animals off that wouldn't go through a sale ring, but then people get to see and compare with how their program is, what the judges like. So um, as well as, like Sean said, having something to do. You know, the futurity is always fun. But if you just, you know, you're not going to drive across the country for a for a sale in an hour, so it adds a little more value to the uh participation.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

And the awards and the dinner are always at Ann's house on Friday night, and I believe that starts at 6 p.m.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

Party of the year.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

So let's move on to Saturday. Uh oh, go ahead, Sean. Do you have something to add?

SPEAKER_03 14:37

Uh Hannah and I are going to try to do pasture tours again this year after the futurity, before the dinner, as long as the weather's cooperative.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

And they just get a hold of you during the futurity, or how do people let you know that they want to go?

SPEAKER_03 14:51

Yeah, yeah. Just so I know we have somebody coming, we'll we'll rush back to the farm and get things ready.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

All right. So on Saturday, I believe the sale starts at 11. Are people welcome to look at animals before the sale?

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Um, you know, they up there bright and early. You can check them out all weekend. The sale cows are down on the bottom of the barn. So, and we what normally till about 1045, you know, 15 minutes before before they start stacking cows. Yeah, you can take a look at them. Um, there's anybody interested in bidding online, um, you know, get a hold of any of us or even Jamie, and we can get you videos, all that kind of stuff. So yeah, we welcome you to go go look at the cows and be around them.

SPEAKER_01 15:35

And you'll be around that more. I mean, you'll be around all weekend, but you'll be around that morning as well if people have updates to give you before the sale.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

Yes, ma'am. Yeah, and I'll all weekend I'll be sitting there. And that's the cool part about this sale, I really, really enjoy it. You know, we get to do all these monster sales across the country, but this one is just like a it's a reset button. You know, that's not hustle bustle crazy. It's just there's so many families there, people you haven't seen. So like you genuinely enjoy getting to sit there and talk with people. It's not one of those you're, oh, I gotta go do this or that. It just kind of works out and is a lot more of a relaxing environment, which is a good change of pace.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

So for sale day contacts, I'm assuming the two of you, is there anyone else people can contact?

SPEAKER_02 16:21

As always, you can contact the wonderful Jamie at Hired Hand Software. Um, you know, Dan Grove, if you have any auctioneer questions, if you have any office stuff season. So yeah, we're we're all listed and we're all happy to help and whatever you may need.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

And Sean, you'll be handling the back crew all weekend.

unknown 16:40

Right?

SPEAKER_03 16:41

Yeah. Yeah. We'll be there from Thursday to Sunday morning.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

You mentioned Dan Grove a little bit earlier, which kind of goes into my next question about haulers. It seems like Dan is always willing. He has at least a couple spaces open for haulers. Is there anyone else that you are aware of?

SPEAKER_02 16:58

We've got quite a few that are, you know, always willing and lined up. You know, Jay Walkter, and and the good part about this is it's a few weeks, I think it's two weeks before like Glenn Denning and Hudson. Um, so a lot of these trailers will be heading back west. Um, so yeah, we we always have people willing and able. So just if you the again, our only request is if you're thinking about buying, call us ahead of time so that way we can help you get it lined up. Don't you right after the sale, don't say, hey, I'm in, you know, Canada, need a cow brought up, or in Alaska, because that'll take a little time. But we've never left a cow at the barn. It's not our plan to do it this year either.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

Let's talk about uh um sponsors for this uh sale this year. Do you want to go over the list?

SPEAKER_03 17:39

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

Yeah, Sean, you go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

Well, we have a couple new sponsors this year. Um Sam Biler with Black Low Farm sponsored the sale this year. And uh John and Nancy Coke, and they're from like literally 15 minutes from the sale barn. Um John had a John busy schedule and always had a hard time getting to the sale, and now he retired from the police force. So he's he's hopefully going to be there a lot more active, and and him and Nancy are be there to help out more and do do more stuff with the Longhorn breed. And um, of course, the Brightman family and they're they always step up and Ricky McLeod and uh Nick and Kim Nicodem, they frequent uh Virginia just about every year. They come back. So we're always thankful to have them all the way out of Oklahoma and sponsor. And Carol Powell sponsor um Jay and Susie Walkter. Jay's like an uncle to my kids. Um they he's been around since they they hit the dirt. So um Jay always supports us. And Savannah Smith is with uh Leonard New River Ranch is a sponsor. And Ryan and Brandy Schmidt, um, they they sponsor also Rocky Meadow Longhorns.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Should we move on to the consigners? I know we talked about new people buying last year. Do you have any new consigners this year?

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Yeah, um, Samuel Byler, he's a new consigner this year. Uh Steve Davis from Riplingwood Farms is a new consigner. I know we have H2O livestock, Tom Gilbert, he consigned a couple years ago, but it's been a while since he's been out here. Uh Marcus Moust out of Virginia, Maplewood Valley Ranch, he's got his first consignments in this year. Derek Stewart, um, Derek and Courtney took they have a nice heifer in the sale. I tried to get for the fall classic and they they said no, and I finally talked them into it. So they got they put her a nice heifer in the sale. She's very nice. I think that's our new ones.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

Well, should we talk about the consignments?

SPEAKER_02 19:50

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

Fantastic. Are there any subs or scratches?

SPEAKER_02 19:56

Uh, the only scratch we have now is going to be the very last lot. Um, so I think she's um noted that way in the catalog is like we were, you know, day before print, we scratched her. She was she was open. But other than that, I don't know of any more subs or anything. But we're two weeks out, so that's very self subject to change.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

Okay. Um, there is one embryo lot. I feel like a sale wouldn't be complete without Jay Walker doing something like this, uh, which is lot 37. Do you guys want to talk about it?

SPEAKER_02 20:27

Absolutely. Uncle Jay and Susie, um, big time embryo program. He's had a lot of success doing that. So yeah, lot 37 is cool hand loot checks. He was a spotlight bull last year. Um, sold$100,000 worth of semen at him at the legacy, and it'll never be sold again. So he's got that real cool Midnight Temptation cow, just a frosty black, I guess you call it Rhone. Um, so there's gonna be a lot of color, really cool genetics there. Um, and again, that semen's not for sale. So he bought Jay bought into it last year and is doing some embryo work with it. So um, and you're gonna get a guaranteed live heifer. So that's one thing about Jay. This is why we, as sales, like him to do it, because it's not like I'm gonna throw it in a recip and you get what you get. He's he's guaranteeing it. So uh yeah, you don't you don't want to miss out. You're gonna get color and production.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

And this next one, I don't think she has a lot number, but I believe if I'm based off of past sales, she's probably gonna sell before lot number one in the sale. Um, and this is a donation heifer that's gonna support Hannah on her little nine-month journey around the world, uh, which was uh donated by uh Cheneys, Natalie and John Cheney. Sean, do you want to talk about this heifer?

SPEAKER_03 21:43

Yeah, I mean, uh Natalie reached out to me about it and um, you know, just took me off guard because we were not expecting that. And I um I told her, I was like, you gotta get a hold of Chase and Ann about this. Like I can't have a I can't have a say in it. Um so yeah, I mean, they just agreed that, you know, in order to help Hannah, she's for nine months, she's gotta raise a ton of money. And um, Natal just felt, you know, she wanted to help Hannah out and put this in the sale. So all the money that this this heifer brings will go towards Hannah's mission trip. She's going to five countries. Um, I don't have them in front of me right now, but I know it's like South Africa, South Korea, um, T. Iwana and then uh Thailand, and there's one other one. I don't even know how to pronounce, I don't even know where it's at. So um, yeah, we're just super proud of her. Of course, it's you know, as mom and dad, it's a little scary, but it's she wants to follow her dreams and her heart, and we're supporting her 100%. And then uh to have Natal and John come alongside, it was it's pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

That's cool. Well, I'm excited for Hannah, and I hope to hopefully she posts pictures on social media as she is on her little trek.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

Yeah, we're hoping. Um they said there's a lot of places she won't have service and we may not have contact with her. So um every all of our finances that she does outside of the mission has to be on a credit card. So I'm at least, you know, thankful for that because I'm at least I know if I get a bill every month, I know um, you know, she's out doing something.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

So Well, maybe you could log into the app for the credit card and set up the notification so you get notified every time she makes a charge so that'll make you feel better every day.

SPEAKER_03 23:22

Oh, seasons will, for sure.

unknown 23:25

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

And Sean, Sean's being a little modest too, but I mean it's it's a very, very big deal. Um, you know, we've all, like you said, we've known each other forever. So we get to see Hannah grow up and kind of her heart's been true to what she wants to do. One of the few people that you see that stick from a young age. So, and it it's not, she's not one of those like, oh, I'm getting a heifer. I'm not gonna, she has been doing bake sales, selling opportunities to pie her dad, car anything she could do to raise money. So she didn't really know this was happening until after she had already done all the stuff. And she would, she's the kind of kid she would have worked regardless. So we saw what happened at the treasure sale last week with Chapel. Um, Hannah's right up there with Chap. I mean, both awesome young ladies, big careers and big lives ahead of them. So this is just something that we feel we should give back to to help her, you know, get on the next, especially with the mission trip. How many lives is she going to touch that we can't do from here? So that's that's one we hope everybody is able to donate, help, push it, because it goes a lot further than just you know, Culpepper, Virginia. She's it's all over the world. So it's a great opportunity for her and us. So Sean wouldn't say that he's modest, but he's very proud and very scared, as we all as as he should be. But it's it's been amazing watching her work to do this. Um, so we're very proud of her.

SPEAKER_03 24:44

Yeah, she went on a mission trip through our church to the Dominican Republic for just a week. And um when Seasons picked her up from the from the airport or from our when they brought him back to our church, she got in the car and just she just told Seasons, she's like, Mom, this is what I want to do with my life. So uh, you know, to see her put it into action is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

Well, who's ready for a round of catalog roulette? Thumbs up, just one. Sean's still thinking about it, huh?

SPEAKER_03 25:13

No, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

Okay. I think.

SPEAKER_03 25:15

I think I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Okay. Who wants to go first?

SPEAKER_03 25:19

I will.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Okay. We'll start with that one. Uh her name is Just a Handful from Rocky Meadow.

SPEAKER_03 25:28

Uh, Ryan and Brandy are they've they've been become great friends of mine. Um, we got them started while we still lived in Pennsylvania, and they don't live far from my parents. So I was up visiting with him and seen this heifer with a wean tab in her nose. And uh she looked like she was an eight-month-old heifer, nine-month-old heifer, and I got the scoop on her and talked to Ann, and Ann's like, well, you got to talk him into putting her into cherry blossom. And uh to talk Ryan into doing anything is tough, and to do it quick is tough. But um, we we made we got him to put her in, and you know, just the hired hand stuff is hard to find. And like Chase said earlier, it's especially in the East Coast. Um, and Ryan just does so much AI work, and this this the cool part of for us, the this heifer's mother, Uncommon HH, my wife actually AI'd that cow to make that heifer when Justin Henry owned um a WPR Uncommon. So it's a cool story, but just a phenomenal heifer. I mean, well built, huge, huge body, big horns on her already. So she uh we're excited to start the sail out with her.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

Next we'll move over to um a lot from Downey Family Farms, lot six, River Forks Mayola.

SPEAKER_02 26:46

Yeah, she's she's an awesome cow. And I think that's the it's the Downey Brightman partnership. Um, you know, RTG and then Eddie and the family. Um, she is a very, very nice cowboy catch-it daughter. Um she should be at the 90-inch mark, but again, horns rolling and twisting. Uh, you got Riverforge breeding with Terry and Tammy King. Um yeah, it's just if somebody wants to add a 90-inch catch-it daughter, you know, they're they're getting fewer and far between trying to find them. She's she's she was a cash cow when she sold and she did her job with them. They got calves and offspring to replace her. And so I think it's a really good opportunity to bring home a 90-inch catch-it daughter um from the cherry blossom this year. Beautiful cow.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

And I believe you said this per this consigner was this was his first year consigning um Steve Davis with Ripplingwood Farms, lot eight, LTL Cassie.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

Yeah, this is his first uh, he's got two in the sale. This is his first consignment. Um, it's this this little package is pretty cool. I had to call him back to make sure I understood correctly because um she has a HL heads-up heifer calf at side, and it's confirmed bred back to Hubble's 20 gauge with heifer sex semen. And she's a timeline daughter that Savannah has it and using down there at Leonard New River. But um, you know, when you when you look through her genetics and then the calves' genetics and who she's bred to, I I'm not sure where you'll find a genetic package like that. It is pretty cool. When he sent that to me, I was like, I even sent it to Ann. I'm like, you see this little package? Like this thing's bred to the tilt. So it yeah, he he put up two cool consignments, and we strictly do AI work. It's it's neat what people can put put in.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Next up, we will talk about Ricky McLeod's lot 11, R R R Miss Magpie.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

Ricky Ricky, yeah, and you know, Ricky has always been a big supporter of us. We appreciate him and Sandra, and then you know, now with Ezra, and uh biased maybe, I don't know. I think she's the prettiest cow we have in the sale. She's striking black and white, rolling and twisting horns out, um, you know, concealed weapon granddaughter, Teja star granddaughter. So there's no Rio, um tough, anything like that. So she's ready to rock and roll for you. And the top it all off, she's bred to hanging on to you. That's he's partners with Ken Morrison, and that bull's almost a hundred inches, and I don't even think he's five yet. Um, colored up, so yeah, beautiful black and white, red to one heck of a bull. And yeah, she's she's stunning.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

We'll move on to lot 13, Steele Holler, CW from Cedar Wood Farm.

SPEAKER_03 30:12

Yeah, this little heifer is uh she's gonna she's gonna be Brindle when you see her in person. She's all dark brindled up. She's out of Armored, who John borrowed from us for a breeding season. Armored was out of sniper and Miss Diamond, who is just beautiful. I mean, she's almost 100 inches. She was 99 and a quarter when we measured her in November. And then um on the bottom side is out of all-around cowboy checks, who won multiple futurities. And um, she's also bred to his bull that he owns in partnership. He runs out to Michigan every year to get HOA honky tonk blues as um a blue gruela bull out of Hicks um Bosefus and Hicks Rosemary, but that's gonna add a unique color to that pedigree that's already got a pretty wild color to it.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Lot 15 is the next one from Black Log Farm, DW Dragon Sugar.

SPEAKER_02 31:11

Yep, and you know, we all have seen the value that these drag iron daughters have done. And you know, Samuel brought us a good one here. So drag iron, 90 inch, 2000 pounds, confetti brindle. And the cool part is that XC Heidi. Um, I think Sean, y'all owned that cow and sold her to Samuel. Uh Lloyd Ash actually has her. Lloyd Ash, okay, yeah. And um, yeah, and she's over 90 inches. We got Raya Rio and then Touch and Whirlpad, who I think crossed the 100-inch mark. So it's loaded up 90 and 100 inch genetics, and then um she's coming exposed to turn it up that brings up heads up and rebel woman from Bull Creek. So um, like all these drag iron daughters, she's gonna be well built, a good milker, um, and bred to a heck of a bull. So this that's definitely one you want to pay attention to because it's a it's a dynamite package.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

MF Gunpowder from New or Leonard New River Ranch um with Savannah Smith is the next one. She's lot 19.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

Yeah, she's uh she's out of um RJF Locked and Loaded, who's a big black and white bull, almost 90 inches on him, and then on her bottom side, that Pacific Dawn is owned by the uh Brian Fox and Randy Murray partnership, just doing just an amazing cow. And uh when her horns roll out, she's gonna be awesome because she is a double her the bull that she's bred to that Savannah has, the Grand Slam checks, he has um he's a double-bred rebel son, but his mother is the be a Hawaiian dancer who's over 91 inches that Bob Loomis has. It's just, I mean, she's a phenomenal cow. So to get those genetics and on the bottom side out of that, that little heifer is going to be pretty, pretty amazing little KF inside there.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

Yeah, because we we saw what a yearling heifer last week at the treasure sale bring 60,000 out of Hawaiian dancer. So yeah, it's sought after.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

The next one is lot 22. Um Lucky Find RTG from RTG Ranch.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

Yep. The Brightman family. Um, everybody's favorite. They're they're great people, always support. Um, and they're they're breeding some good animals. So they're finally getting to the point where they're able to sell some of their own breeding. Um, she's out of hanging treasure, brings in hanging tough. They with Mr. Big Stuff, all that up there, they they know the value and what that produces. Um, and then on the bottom, you got Lucky Roses. So that's Delta Lucky Ace and Roses Are Red. So that's the mother that roses are red to um 20 Roses, who just sold for 50 something thousand at Legacy. Dan Grove had a sister to her bring what, like 18 something. So two cash cows already produced out of this roses are red. It's a very consistent line. Um, and then she's been out with Pale Rider and Butch Cassidy, two of their great bulls. So it's, you know, again, it's a serious genetic package there. You got Deltalucky Ace hanging tough and roses are red all in the bundle. She's gonna be well built, a good milker, but also produce. It's just what her genetics do.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Lloyd Esh's lot 25 is up next. DW Moonrocker.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

Yeah, she's she's a neat little heifer. She's um the kid rock kid rock daughter, really does again, another guy that just does uh so much AI work. Um, so he's got the she's a kid out of kid rock, longest horn bull in the breed, and then she's bred to HL heads up by live coverage. So he mixes possibly one of the best, arguably one of the best bulls in the industry, and with his AI. And uh that's just the product you get. But what Lloyd's doing in this breed, it's gonna it's gonna be known for years to come. So to get to get in on his stuff is pretty is pretty fortunate.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

Talk about Carol Powell's lot 28, Hicks Sage.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

Yep, yep, Hidden Springs. You know, she Carol got her start here at the Cherry Blossom, has done great with her herd, added some awesome stuff. So, um, and breeding it. So this is a Hydro daughter, which I don't think he needs an introduction. You get that crazy color, and you look in the catalog, you can kind of see it. That's obviously a winter photo with snow on the ground, but uh, she's gonna be striking color. Um, you go back to Hicks Firecrackers, so you got Johnny Hicks breeding, and then she's coming bred to Carbon Copy, which is a big black and white bull going back to um that whipperwheel family, so in rural safari. So she's gonna produce a lot of color and just a nice young cow with with some twists who's gonna be a foundation female for some program. She'll do a good job. She's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

Cody's five-leaf clover, lot 33 from Cody Cata Company. Guy and Charlotte is the next one.

SPEAKER_03 35:58

Yeah, she was on their futurity circuit. They hold her around quite a bit. And um, she's out of cutting wheel, who's out of cutting dried, so she's got the size and color. And uh, and then she's bred to Ambro, who's almost 90 inches, um, and at a three-year-old, and his third birthday is almost 90 inches. So that's gonna be a cool little package, too. Uh, gentle, you know, from being hauled around. Of course, everything Cody's have is pretty gentle. So she's gonna she's gonna roll out and be a nice, nice young cow to build off of.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

Well, we can never forget about tallies on with at an East Coast sale. So we'll talk about their lot. 35. BL Pretty Monica.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Yep. Yep. Really, really, really cool opportunity here. So she's cruising tango checks. Um, that's a 50-50 son. He threw a lot of twists and a lot of body, and you can see that she's got it here. Um, you know, and on the bottom, this is the real she's out of BL Monica Princess. So that gives you Cowboy Tough, you know, 108 inches world record holder for a numerous amount of years, and then out of BL Rio Monica. So going back to the Monica lines, it's it's about as strong as a uh maternal line as you can find here. And then to top it all off, she's coming bred to Game Changer, which he's got a chunk of horn broken off, and he's still winning um winning futurities, winning measurement competitions. So it's a really cool opportunity to get some Loomis and Tally genetics here, and it's that calf inside versus her genetic potential. It's it's a dynamite package they brought us.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

Terry and Tammy King are kind of the same way as tallies. They're always at the East Coast sales, so we'll talk about their lot 36. River Fork Cheyenne.

SPEAKER_03 37:42

Yeah, they're always great to supporters, and they bring us cattle in good condition. And Cheyenne, I'm sure, is gonna be no different. I mean, just looking at the picture, you'd see how correct she is. She's straight and got such a good udder on her. And um genetically, again, another good one. She's out of 50-50 sun on the top, and then on the bottom, um, she's out of a cash flow. Who her her mother is out of cash flow who goes back to the horseshoe J Important is a big black and white twisty cow like Jimmy Jones produces. And uh, you know, and then she's supposed she's should have a KF at side by Apollo, um, CR Apollo. So yeah, I'm not sure there. That's kind of like Steve Davis's. I mean, that's just a stacked genetic offering.

SPEAKER_01 38:31

And the last one we'll talk about is that 38 Wildflower Cowgirl CPL from Commander's Place Longhorns.

SPEAKER_02 38:38

Yep, yep. And the Nicodemes, as Sean mentioned earlier, they've been they've been active supporters coming out and they bring this cool color. Um, Runaway Gray is her sire. You know, he's I won a truckload of bronzes um for the total horn and what he's been able to produce at these measurements. And then on the bottom, um, you're going back to Hustler 969, another one of their big um yellow bulls. That's the only way I know to describe them. So you got Grulia top, yellow on the bottom. So you can see the color she has. She's gonna be ready to breed to the bull of your choice, but a lot of horn and cool color with those uh dilution genes, wild genes. So uh more than likely she's gonna be able to produce it because that's generations that they've been working for to get her. But flashy, flashy heifer, and um, somebody be excited to get her home. I mean, and who wouldn't be? She's she's gorgeous.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

And that brings us to Sunday. When can they load out on Sunday?

SPEAKER_03 39:34

Pretty much any time, just by lunchtime, because we gotta get the whole barn cleaned up and swept up and stuff. So we we try to make sure everybody's out by uh noon on Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 39:45

Are they able to load out on Sunday or excuse me, Saturday after the sale?

SPEAKER_03 39:50

Yes, yep. Yeah, we'll be there, we'll be there till the last trailer leaves.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

Sir, is there anything that we have not talked about that you want to mention?

SPEAKER_02 40:01

I mean, the only thing I could think is um, I mean, make sure to come to the party at Anne's. Like some people will come, especially if you're a new timer, it can kind of seem a little overwhelming, but come out there, it's a catered dinner. We do the awards, you get to see the awesome herd and the beautiful views of the mountains. So make sure to do that. And then, you know, Culpepper has a ton to offer around the areas. If you like wine, there's wineries and um just you know, a lot of history in that part of the country. So um don't be afraid to ask if you have questions and yeah, come come and enjoy. It's Anne's rule if you don't have fun, stay home. So hopefully everybody's ready to come for a good time.

SPEAKER_01 40:38

Well, thanks for joining us. We can't wait to see you both and everyone else at the Cherry Blossom Sale and for charity. Make sure to check out the consignments ahead of sale date and follow us for more updates. Until next time.