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Today, Tattersalls is the leading bloodstock auctioneer in Europe, selling 10,000 horses a year.It still prices horses in guineas (originally 21 shillings and now one pound and five pence), in accordance with horse-racing tradition.
Mecum's auctions attract a varied clientele, [16] including a large number of non-bidding spectators, who make up approximately 90 percent of attendees. [3] Events receive anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 attendees. [9] The inaugural auction event, known as the Rockford Spring Classic, was held at the Greater Rockford Airport in 1988.
An online auction (also electronic auction, e-auction, virtual auction, or eAuction) is an auction held over the internet and accessed by internet connected devices. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Similar to in-person auctions, online auctions come in a variety of types , with different bidding and selling rules.
Keeneland Sales is an American Thoroughbred auction house in Lexington, Kentucky founded in 1935 as a nonprofit racing/auction entity on 147 acres (0.59 km 2) of farmland west of Lexington, which had been owned by Jack O. Keene. A division of Keeneland Association, Inc., it holds three annual horse auctions that attract buyers from around the ...
The Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club has been mentioned in NPR's This American Life (television version) and in regional equestrian magazines. [9] It has also attracted photographers and filmmakers, local and global, amateur and professional. In 2006 Martha Camarillo published a book of photographs, "Fletcher Street." [18]
The Concours Complet International (CCI) is the competition rating for the equestrian sport of eventing, given by the international governing body for the sport, the FEI. The rating system was recently changed, effective 1 January 2019. Originally, competitions were held in two formats, CCI and CIC (Concours International Combiné).
The American Equestrian Trade Association (AETA) was a not-for-profit (501-C6) trade organization founded in 2007. Association membership consisted of 370 organizations involved with manufacturing, distribution and retailing of products for horses and riders.
Auction chants have found their way into the music and the entertainment arena, such as the 1956 song "The Auctioneer" by Leroy Van Dyke, which was about a relative of Van Dyke who was an auctioneer, and the 1995 hit single "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" by John Michael Montgomery.