LOPE Texas is currently conducting a holiday stallion season auction at its website. LOPE Texas is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit devoted to providing new careers for retiring racehorses of all breeds in Texas that has, through its online services and ranch adoption center, transitioned over 450 Texas ex-racehorses into new homes since 2003.

LOPE Texas has four very special stallion seasons up for auction. The stallions are Tinner’s Way (winner of over $1.8 million and a son of Secretariat), Special Rate (winner of over $187,000 and son of Pulpit), Lil's Lad (winner of over $589,000 and a son of Pine Bluff), and Sand Ridge (winner of over $708,000). These stallions' bloodlines also include The Minstrel, Nureyev, Spend A Buck, and In Reality. Each of these stallions have superb pedigrees for racing and for sporthorse breeding.

All four stallions stand at the Key Ranch in Salado, Texas. LOPE would like to thank Phil Leckinger and Jerry Hardin for their generous donations of the stallion seasons.

Also available in LOPE's holiday auction is a Secretariat poster signed by jockey Ron Turcotte.

The online auction will end on December 20, 2006 -- just in time for Christmas

To enter the auction and start bidding, just click here.