the last two winners of the Wrexham Cup, Aintree Nimrod and white bull calves ceased to be finished at Shordley.
EX92 and Network EX90, have both been Nugget bulls, while Now 120 crossbred bullocks are grazed on some of the
their full brother Nannerch is on layoff at Genus. A fourth full rented acreage to finish within a year and they are again
brother, Aintree Network is EX90, and all are sons of Addison sold direct. It is another element of a big farming concern
Nugget. at Hope for Ruth and Richard Pilkington. Some days it must
Interestingly, Aintree only have two Northside daughters, feel like they are juggling a number of enterprises, but their
but both are from two other major families at Aintree. enthusiasm, willingness to embrace new ideas and technology,
The Tellar’s numerically account for 17 milking Aintree stockmanship and business acumen is working beyond
animals and founded the Tellar families at Moorshard and question keeping them a nose in front at Aintree.
Shanael. The Satin family can be traced to a UK purchase of a
Canadian importation and of course the family provided the
paternal impetus on the Nugget family as mentioned above.
FARMFACTS
The Agro Acres Marquis Ned daughter born in 1977, Aintree
Ned Satin EX90 9*, bred 12 daughters including a VG89
Aintree Holsteins
Thunder sold for 5500gns to Wiseburrow and her 6000gn
q Owned by Richard and Ruth Pilkington
VG sister by Citamatt who was bought by Hemble. Currently
there are 26 Satins in the milking herd.
q 200 acres owned and 600 acres rented of which 40 acres
To the Pilkington’s, the cow family is everything and the
wheat, 140 acres maize
absolute consideration when investing. With the herd well
q Enterprises include; 200 cows & 300 followers, 500 breed-
on its way to accreditation testing free of Johnes, purchases
are principally limited to embryos, but a veritable treasure
ing ewes, 120 crossbred bullocks for finishing, livery yard
chest of animals are collecting at Aintree. For the pedigree q Cow families include; Nugget, Trix, Satin, Tellar, Wendy
connoisseur there are Toystory’s from the Morningview Judy
family, Pronto’s from Penn-Gate Finesse, Talent’s from Dyks
q Service sires include; Sanchez, Hayden, Bogart, Loader, and
Kite Linda Red (Reserve Champion at Madison 2008 and Red
Million
Cow of the Year 2009), Mr Burns’ from Derrwyn Miss Special
q Over 50 daughters in herd from the Nugget family, a fur-
Red family and Armstead’s from Gen-I-Beq Goldwyn Secret.
ther 30 bred by Nugget sires q
As you can see many of these are red and white bloodlines,
simply because of the marketing advantage they afford. q Herd classification 75% EX or VG
For Richard and Ruth the farm is a hectic place. Ruth runs
the livery yard which houses around 15 horses, as well
q Cubicle housed, one group, 2x day milking
as teaching, especially dressage. Previously bull beef had q TMR ration only- incorporating maize, grass and straights
been kept during the subsidies era but last spring, black
q Herd average 8933kg at 4.42% fat 3.36% protein
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