Horse Auction: Do Look The Horse In The Mouth
March 6th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Most people have a mental picture of a horse auction as being an elite Kentucky sales ring where only the best breeds and finest racehorses are changing owners for an insane amount of cash. These places do in fact exist, but a lot of horse auctions in the US don’t have this glamorous halo and take place at county live stock markets. These local horse auctions can be found all around the US and take place every month or sometimes even every week.
The horse auction is the place where people carry on the commercial trade in equines. It can take place in almost all states in the US and there are literally hundreds of them taking place each year and the largest numbers of horses that are auctioned off are in Texas, California, and Kansas and in New Mexico. There are thousands of horses being auctioned every year and this includes pleasure horses and ponies, racehorses who did not quite measure up at the track, draft horses as well as donkeys, mules and others.
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There may be many people who visit the auction in the hope of finding an inexpensive riding horse or a pony but there are also many killer buyers who represent federally licensed horse slaughterhouses in the United States, who come to buy horses at an auction. The case of an unwanted horse is one that means it will usually end up at a slaughterhouse after being purchased by middlemen who further fatten and send them to the slaughter house.
The condition of horses being traded at an auction may vary quite a bit and some are in excellent health with splendid coats and hooves and beautifully maintained manes while others have been trucked to auction by anonymous haulers. There are instances of such horses being victims of extreme neglect. Starvation is a common affliction seen among horses being sold at the horse auction and there are plenty of horse with hip bones as well as ribs so exposed that one may be forgiven for thinking that such horses are walking skeletons.
One can find a list of the available horse auctions that take place all around the United States in many places. In this day and age you can even go online and find a good number of websites that will provide you with the details you need about horse auctions taking place, near you and in the near future.
