Santa Elena Ranch "Traditions of Red" Online Sale

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Attention Junior Exhibitors:

All haltered heifers that are purchased for showing in the 2015 Spring Major Livestock Shows must have ownership transferred by November 1, 2014.  The exhibitor must have possession of the heifer by the physical validation date for your specific county.  This date, time and location of physical validation is set by the County Heifer Validation Committee.  Please, contact your County Extension Agent or supervising Agriculture Science Teacher for Validation dates in your county.  Exhibitors with scheduling conflicts MUST NOTIFY the Validation Chairman to MAKE ARRANGEMENTS PRIOR to the scheduled validation day(s) in that county.

Please remember this and make payments promptly after sale so all paper work and ownership transfers can be turned in on time.  After closing of sale we will overnight the Registration to ABBA to meet the deadline of November 1,2014.

Santa Elena Ranch is proud to hold our very first internet sale this October! As a household name in the Red Brahman world, our ranch is planning a historic sale, offering first-rate genetics that are normally not offered to the general public. Santa Elena Ranch has been in business since 1959. Owned and operated by Alfredo and Josefina Muskus, they have made their mark producing honest breeding cattle of high quality and beefy conformation. Through years of carefully implemented selective breeding our ranch has developed an excellent herd of good, productive beef type Red Brahmans. Progressive in every sense of the word, Santa Elena Ranch is a leader in genetics, production and performance. For decades the ranch and its legendary VL herd has produced many champions, both internationally and domestically. This sale is a chance to buy genetics from a worldwide leader in Brahman production, as our family exports its cattle to over 20 countries.

We set out with a goal that our first online sale would set a standard of excellence. With that in mind, we have gone to great lengths to make it a memorable event. Our family has worked hard choosing the sale, using a simple straightforward approach. We decided to offer a smaller number of lots, focusing on the quality of the cattle and emphasizing Santa Elena’s superior genetics. The sale will offer 21 unique lots, including some of our very best and most exclusive bloodlines. Whether you are a new customer, or one of our most established clients, we are confident that you will be very happy with the opportunities this sale has to offer.

Show heifer prospects from our spring 2014 calf crop. These are top of the line heifers that would normally go straight to the Santa Elena show string. They have been chosen from our very best donors and sires, and are of remarkable quality.

Pregnancies – We are selling two 90 day guaranteed pregnancies on two of our donor cows. These pregnancies are from two prolific donors, one being the 2008 World Brahman Congress Grand Champion Red female, and the other being the 2007 International Red Brahman Grand Champion Female. This is a once in a lifetime chance to acquire championship genetics from the VL herd. You can choose between one of our upcoming sires, or use the sire of your choice.

Bred Heifers – You read it correct! We are selling heifers out of our special pasture on the ranch called the “keeping heifer pasture”. These heifers were never intended to be sold and were hand-mated to our top sires.

Flushes – Very rarely does Santa Elena offer flushes on our current donors domestically. Our flush offering includes two of our most productive donors. They are first rate breeders that exemplify the genetics and breed character that Santa Elena Ranch represents.

Semen - The ranch is also offering semen packages from legendary Red Brahman bulls. Make sure you look at these lots as some of them will never be offered again on both the international and domestic markets!

Our family is committed to making this sale a very special, memorable event in which we are able to share our very best with fellow breeders. We look forward to your business and thank you for looking at Santa Elena Ranch. As stated above, these cattle are backed by over 55 years of superior Red Brahman breeding that is renowned across the globe. The ranch is open for visitors. We are conveniently located right off of Interstate 45, just south of Madisonville, Texas. For more information contact any one of our family members. We would be delighted to give you a tour of our operations.

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Process to Bid Online

To be able to Bid Online for this sale, You will have to have completed the Following 3 Steps:

1. Create an Account

2. Complete Lifetime Verification

3. Sign Up for the Santa Elena Ranches Sale

Close Out Process

This Sale will feature the Cattle In Motion All In - All Done Sale Close Out Format.
With this close out, as the time counts down No Bidding can happen within 5 minutes of the close of ALL Lots. So if the Lots are set to close at 7PM and with four minutes left (6:56PM), some one bids on lot 4, then enough time is added back to the clock to allow ALL lots to have 5 minutes (new close time is 7:01PM on ALL Lots), and the countdown resumes. Then if someone bids on Lot 8 at 6:59PM, then ALL lots are extended until 7:04PM. this process will go on until no one bids for a period of 5 minutes on ANY Lot.
 

Process to Bid Online

To be able to Bid Online for this sale, You will have to have completed the Following 3 Steps:

1. Create an Account

2. Complete Lifetime Verification

3. Sign Up for this Sale