Becky and I would like to personally thank everyone that came to the Prime Rib Dinner we had at our place during the West Texas Futurity. This is our way of saying thank you to all the mare owners out there, we are over whelmed in your continuing support of our young stallion.

84 Horses selling – $2,099,900
Averaging – $24,999

84 of Metallic Cat’s offspring went through the Western Bloodstock sales during the NCHA Futurity totaling $2,099,900.

Top Preferred Breeders Sale: Metallic CD “Metallic Cat x Sweet Little CD” topped the sale bringing $110.000; Cowcat “Metallic Cat x Cowstruck” was the 3rd highest seller going selling for $95,000; Snow Me The Rey “ Metallic Cat x Nurse Moss” came in as the 4th highest seller, selling for $80,000; Ruby Shadow Cat “Metallic Cat x Ruby Tuesday DNA” was the 5th highest seller going for $77,000.

2 Year Old Sale: With only a select few 2 year olds in the sale, Liphys Black Cat, Metallic x Lipshy sold for $100,000; Metalic Al “Metallic Cat x Amandas Little Star” brought $90,000.

Congratulations to Dominik Conicelli on his purchase of Metallic Spark, a 2011 Red Roan stallion by Metallic Cat out of Shiney Lil Miss (by Shining Spark). The purchase price was at $62,000. We wish you the best of luck!

“In fact, it was the popular Metallic Cat who proved he has the mettle as an up-and-coming star sire. He topped the 2011 cutting sales, as ranked by the median price of his foals. He actually rounded out the year with the seventh-highest net sales in cutting auctions, with 25 offspring selling for $734,000. Metallic Cat, who is owned by Alvin and Becky Fults, Amarillo, Texas, won the 2008 NCHA Futurity with Beau Galyean and then went on to a remarkable career that concluded with $637,710 in earnings at the close of the 2009 season. The stallion’s first foal crop, one with just 54 AQHA-registered individuals, arrived in 2010 and will be hitting the show pen next year. “

Yearling filly Ms Cat Walk, by Metallic Cat, was the second-highest seller at $60,000 at the 2012 Western Bloodstock NCHA Summer Spectacular Sales. Out of NCHA World Champion mare Ms Mimosa and consigned by Reata Cutting Horses, Ms Cat Walk was purchased by Curtis Weeks.

Quarter Horse News – February 1, 2012

Metallic Cat set the 2011 NCHA Futurity Sales on fire, finishing as the No. 2 sire on the overall and yearling charts. The 2005 stallion, who is owned by Alvin and Becky Fults, Amarillo, Texas, kicked off his career by winning the 2008 NCHA Futurity with Beau Galyean and then performing to $637,711. Now, his babies are on the ground and on the way. According to AQHA, Metallic Cat’s registered foal count is 52 for 2010 and 92 for 2011. At the NCHA Futurity Sales last December, Metallic Cat had 22 of 29 consigned foals net $638,000 for a $29,000 average and $22,500 median. This young sire – one whose foals won’t hit the show pen until 2013 – bested older mainstays such as Dual Rey, Smart Little Lena and Peptoboonsmal.

Quarter Horse News asked owner Alvin Fults about his stallion’s success at the sales. He responded, “I’m honored. I am glad to see the consistency of his foals – the way all those colts are looking the same. That’s what we were hoping for, that he was going to be able to consistently be able to make a nice colt.”

As for what it’s like waiting for that 2013 debut, Fults said, “The wait is hard. We pulled our yearlings up a little bit early and went ahead
and broke them; we just couldn’t take it anymore. They’re doing awesome.”

Jordan Furnish made those first rides on Fults’ Metallic Cat foals. Was Fults there for the occasion?

“You bet I was!” he answered. “I was there when he got on every one of them. They just went right on – never missed a lick or acted up. Jordan’s comment to me was, ‘I’m showing them something one day and they’re doing it the next day.'”