Both gentlemen will help sell great horses through the ring Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22. Announcing and auctioneering the team encourages buyers to raise their hands. Calling out pedigrees and chanting in the Rimrock Auto Arena brings a new energy to the NILE Gold Buckle Select Sales for 2016.

Ty Thompson hails from Billings, Montana where he has worked at PAYS as an auctioneer and cattle sale manager at Billings Livestock Commission and sale coordinator at Northern Livestock Video Auction. He is the 2009 World Livestock Auctioneer Champion.

Ty lives just outside of Billings with his wife Jenny. In addition to being an auctioneer he owns Thompson Cattle, Co. providing many of the yearlings for the NILE horse events.

Dru Stewart hailing from western Montana, Dru grew up in the Bitterroot Valley and attended college at the University of Montana where he tie-down roped, team roped, and steer wrestled for the U of M Grizzly rodeo team. During his college years he also attended the Western College of Auctioneering right here in Billings and later worked for Bill and Jann Parker at BLS for many years. 

Currently he lives in Haskell, Oklahoma with his new wife, Sarah (as of late July) and two children. Dru serves at Vice President of marketing for the Pro Equine Group and Hatco which manufacture Resistol and Stetson Cowboy hats along with Cactus Ropes, Fast Back Ropes, Heel-O-Matic, and Cactus Saddlery; who make the presitigous PRCA World Champion Saddles. He is still an active team roper as well as announces the Bob Feist Invitational, theNational High School Rodeo Finals, and the World Series of Team Roping Finale in Las Vegas, NV.

Find the 2016 Horse Sale Catalog here.