University of Minnesota Extension

Minnesota 4-H


Expo Tack Sale

Our tack sale is held annually at Minnesota's Horse Expo in St. Paul at the state fairgounds. The sale is managed by Minnesota 4-H Horse Association and is this group's major fund raising event.

  • April 27 - 29, 2012

Consignment

The public is invited to consign items. All items are tagged using special tags provided to the consignors. You may get tags from Curt Baumgart prior to the sale and establish your own price.

A 20 percent commission fee is charge on all items sold at the tack sale, 5 percent of that is used to pay Minnesota Horse Expo for rental space. The remainder of the commission supports Minnesota 4-H Horse Project activities and the expenses of the Minnesota 4-H Horse Association. Please consider checking out your tack at home and bring it to the sale or visit the sale and find the tack you need.

Consigners

The 2010 tack and clothing consignment sale was successfu as always!. Thanks to the more than 300 consignors who participated!

Volunteers

This sale is growing every year, and we need more volunteers to help. We have fun working the sale; think about joining us next year. If you would like to help with big event fill out our Volunteer Form PDF Document118 K Posted 1/9/11 or email Laurie Arco, tack sale volunteer coordinator at rides2bits@msn.com. You need to save the form to your computer and send it as an attachment to Laurie or print it and send it via regular mail to the address listed on the form.

The proceeds from this sale go to the Minnesota 4-H Horse Association to help pay for the state 4-H Horse Show, Winter Roundup and all the other 4-H Horse Project events.

2012 FlyerPDF Document (65 K PDF) Updated 10/14/11

 

For more information

Curt Baumgart 1-320-355-2142 or Al Vandenberghe 1-218-764-3351


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