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10th April 2010
SIMMENTAL SELL TO 4,200GNS AT BRISTOL
The Simmental Society show and sale took place at the Bristol
Sales Centre with vendors from no less than seventeen different
counties participating. In the pre- sale show the judge Mr.
John Moore of Northern Ireland awarded the male champion to ‘Penwern
Wilson’ exhibited by Mr. R Jenkins of Newcastle Emlyn,
Ceredigion, who later sold at 3,000gns to Messrs Counsell.
The
reserve male champion was Crackley Whiteknight, a polled bull
exhibited by Messrs Booth & Bell of Kenilworth, Warwickshire
who sold for the top bid of the day at 4,200gns to Messrs Cole
of Yelverton Devon. Boddington Estates of Cheltenham Gloucestershire
won all three female classes. Their female champion was a maiden
heifer ‘Sterling Julia’s Waneta’ by ‘Sterling
Alex’ selling at 2,700gns with their reserve female champion ‘Sterling
Nova’s Amethyst’ - a 15month old maiden heifer
selling at 1900gns.
Boddington’s 1st Prize 5 year old
cow and 3 month old bull calf sold at 2,500gns. Mr. and Mrs.
D Mills sold an in-calf heifer ‘Wishful
Vanilla’ at 3,500gns which stood 2nd in her class. Mr.
R Greenham of East Sussex sold his 2nd prize maiden heifer ‘Boars
Head Grace 4th’ at 2,300 gns.
Other notable Bull prices were:-
P.N Burgess ‘Tibrook Warrior’- 3,500gns
P.N Burgess ‘Tibrook Watty’ - 3,000gns
A Davies ‘Hirwaun Winston’ - 3,000gns
P.J & B. E Kimber ‘Beanhill Warrior’ - 3,000gns
Messrs Booth & Bell ‘Crackley Woodstock’ -
3,000gns
C. H. Evans ‘Wroxhall Welldone’ - 3,000gns
R. H. Widdecombe ‘Starline Witness’ -2,900gns
K. Thomas ‘Crowgey Atlas’ - 2,900gns
Averages
25 Bulls - £2,461.14
17 Maiden Heifers £1,744.85
5 In-calf Heifers £1,942.50
4 Cows and Calves £1,890.00
‘Crackley’ Draft Sale £2,320.56
‘Loxton’ Reduction – Cows and Calves - £2,231.25
Auctioneers - Stags in conjunction with McCartneys |
