By Spencer Sterritt

Fast-talking P.A. auctioneer heads to international competition

Jun 6, 2016 | 12:57 PM

A local auctioneer is set to take the world stage to prove he’s one of the fastest talking Canadians.

Brennin Jack, the head auctioneer at Heartland Livestock in Prince Albert, will be the only Canadian competing with 31 other auctioneers at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Paris, Kentucky on June 15 to 19.

In the first round of the championship they’ll sell 4,000 cattle in a live sale, as well as face down three questions in an interview round worth 25 per cent of their final score.

“It’s not just talking fast,” Jack said. “You have to have some brains, too.”

After the first live auction round, the top 10 auctioneers will advance to the final and immediately sell another 4,000 cattle.

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Jack has made it to the final round in all five years he’s competed and his highest finish was third place.

The local has sold cattle for 17 years. Growing up, he went to sales with his dad and started selling when he was seven years old, but said he was “too chicken to actually go up in front of people.”

At the age of 12, Jack sold 2,500 cattle in a $2,000,000 sale. Though he didn’t get paid for it, he said getting an early taste of auctioneering made him competitive.

While the competition is called the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship, Jack said only Americans and Canadians have entered this year.

“We’ve had Australians compete, people from England, but they sell differently so you pretty much have to be from North America to stand the heat in this one,” he said.

If Jack is crowned the 53rd world auctioneer champion, he’ll win a diamond ring, $5,000 and a new truck, but he said the bragging rights were more important to him than “all the money and prizes combined.”

-with files from Dana Reynolds

ssterritt@panow.com

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