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Pedigree breeders bid 20,000
gns twice for Scotland’s
best
at the Perth Spring Bull Sales
Commercial trade underpinned a strong demand for the better
quality bulls in the Simmental sale ring at the Perth Spring
Bull Sales on Monday 15th February 2010. A larger tail-end
than usual meant that a higher percentage of bulls sold under
the 3000 gns mark, which hasn’t been seen for some time,
however the breed average continued to rise on the year by
some 200 gns.
With an 88% clearance and 135 bulls sold through the ring to
average 4,751 gns compared with a 4,544 gns average in 2009
for six less sold, breeders went home feeling satisfied with
the prices achieved but with a warning ringing in their ears, “that
only the best will do” – a sentiment which will
never change – but will continually return to dampen
the ego of even the best breeder!
For the best in the judging ring, proved the best in the sale
ring – 20,000 gns for the Supreme Champion and again
for the Intermediate - a glowing tribute in itself, if one
was needed – to the “man in the middle” – Robert
McAlister, owner of the Bruchag herd on the Isle of Bute.
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Intermediate Champion,
Blackford Worzel 2 forward from J. C. McLaren and Partners,
who sold at 20,000 gns to Manor Park Herd |
The first to fetch 20,000 gns was the Intermediate
Champion, Blackford Worzel 2, from J. C. McLaren and Partners,
who acquired a large portion of the long-established Blackford
herd last Spring from Billy MacPherson, Blackford, Croy, Inverness,
as foundation stock to establish a new herd. Bred from the
Irish sire, Celtic Rock, who has recently been proving a point
in the breeding stakes, producing some of the top prices at
the autumn sale, and from the Curlieu Knight sired dam, Blackford
Ragtime, Worzel 2, sold as a new herd sire to the Manor Park
herd of D. C. Houldey, Lauder, Berwickshire.
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Supreme and Junior Champion,
Auchorachan Wizard, bred by D. & R. Durno and Sons,
who sold at 20,000 gns. to Ballinalare Farm Herd |
The Junior Champion, Auchorachan Wizard, put
the icing on the cake for a memorable Bull Sales for D. & R.
Durno and Sons, Glenlivet, when he was tapped out as Supreme
Champion and going on to fetch 20,000 gns in the sale ring,
when he sold to the Ballinalare Farm Herd in Northern Ireland,
belonging to Joe Wilson and family. With his dam having been
bred in the famous Ravensworth herd, Wizard was sired by the
Brinkton Brilliant son, Saltire Talent. Following on from a
highly successful beef event at Auchorachan last autumn, where
the large turnout of commercial producers were extremely impressed
by the excellent quality of the commercial suckler herd, this
time it was the pedigree herd which took the plaudits.
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| Auchorachan Winger, sold
to the Team Herd at 10,000 gns |
It certainly was a case of “keep it in
the family” when Auchorachan lifted the joint second
top price of the sale, 10,000 gns for the Clonagh Tiger Galant
son, Auchorachan Winger. This 1st prize winner in class 10,
whose dam Auchorachan Tara is a half sister to the day’s
20,000 gns champion, sold to Robert Macgregor, Kirkton of Mailler,
Perth, as a new herd sire for the Team herd. Winger helped
give the Durno family an impressive 11,000 gns average for
their three bulls, when their third entry, the third prizewinning
Auchorachan Whisky sold at 3200 gns.
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| Innerwick Winchester bred
by Mr. and Mrs. L. Moffat, sold at 10,000 gns to Whiteknowes |
The final four figure price, again 10,000 gns
was realised by Innerwick Winchester, a third prize winner
in class 7 for Dorothy and Lindsay Moffat. Sired by the herd’s
stock bull, Oakhill Ned onto the homebred Innerwick Natasha,
Winchester had an impressive milk figure of +12. He sold to
the Whiteknowes herd of W. J. Barclay.
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| Banwy Wonderboy exhibited
by R. E. Jones, lifted the Senior Championship before selling
at 9,500 gns to the Popes Herd |
Four bulls were bid to 9,500 gns and the first
of those through the ring was the Reserve Supreme and Senior
Champion from the Banwy herd in Wales of R. E. Jones. This
Camus Brandy son, Banwy Wonderboy, whose dam the Starline New
Yorker sired Sexygirl, is off for pedigree breeding in the
Popes Herd of Jimmy and Vicky Wood.
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| Denzies Warrior, from M.
Barlow sold for 9,500 gns. |
A handful of bulls later and it was the turn
of the Denizes herd to get a piece of the top action when their
second prize winning Dripsey Super King sired Warrior was bid
to 9,500 gns. With a wealth of show winning breeding on the
dam side, the Barlow family’s Denizes Warrior sold to
Wm. Barnetson & Son, Wick, Caithness.
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| Reserve Intermediate Champion,
Kilbride Farm Warren sold at 9,500 gns for W. H. Robsons & Sons |
The best from W. H. Robson & Sons, the Reserve
Intermediate Champion, Kilbride Farm Warren, full of home breeding
on both sides, fetched 9,500 gns selling to A. Connolly, Moffat,
Dumfriesshire. The final bull at this price was the second
prizewinning Grangewood Wallace. This Gretna Supersonic son
was forward from Andrew and Yvonne Leedham and sold to R. K.
Bryce and Son, Stanley, Perth.
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| Grangewood Wallace by Gretna
House Supersonic from Andrew and Yvonne Leedham sold for
9,500 gns. |
Getting a sale tag of 8,500 gns was the best
from Jimmy and Iain Green’s Corskie herd at Fochabers,
Moray. Corskie Wealth by the Ballinalare Farm Nightrider stock
bull who has gave the herd many top priced lots over the past
number of years sold to pedigree breeder, W. J. Hollingswood,
Midhope herd, near Sheffield. The Dellfield herd of Brian Grant,
Druid Temple Farm, Inverness, brought out the first sons of
Stralongford Trojan, the 16,000 gns Supreme champion in October
2007 when purchased following Brian’s judging stint that
day, as a new stock bull. His purchase gave the herd one of
their best prices to date when Dellfield Warrior, sold for
8,500 gns to Stephen Allardyce, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire.
The Innerwick herd was in the money again, when their second
prizewinning Innerwick Whisky 2nd by Hillcrest Butcher fetched
7,500 gns selling to the Campbell’s, Wick, Caithness.
FEMALES
Topping the female sale was the Ballinalare Farm Nightrider
daughter, Corskie Vail, from the Green’s at Fochabers,
Moray. She sold at 4,000 gns incalf to the Kilbride Farm Tarrant
stock bull to R. and C. Simmers, Peterhead, who also added
the Reserve Female Champion at 3,600 gns to their float home.
This was the Ashland Superboy daughter, Blair Willow, forward
from Colin Fordyce, Meigle. Hamish Gilbert’s Celtic Rock
sired Whiteridden Wendy also fetched 3,600 gns. She sold to
Mrs. M. Ward and Sons, Lanarkshire.
22 females averaged 1,932 gns.
Dirnanean draft: 4 females averaged 2775 gns.
Skerrington draft: 10 females averaged 2350 gns.
Westridge draft: 7 females averaged 1707 gns.
Fishwick draft: 5 females average 1610 gns.
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