SALES SUMMARY

Record smashed at 10th Anniversary sale at Beeston

The Western Holstein Club held their 10th Anniversary Show

and Sale at Beeston Castle Auction on Thursday 25 March to celebrate the ten years since they transferred their sales from Crewe to Beeston and what a sale it was with great demand for everything on offer and a new record price of 8200gns for a milking heifer at these sales.

The sale attracted an entry of 160 head, which included a small but very select offering of superbly bred maiden heifers and heifer calves. Judging at this sale was Philip Davies of Gornal. For his champion he selected Woodmarsh Shottle Lyme 55 from the herd of Mick Gould, an outstanding daughter of Shottle and bred from eight successive generations of VG or EX. In reserve was Misjay Denholme Maude from Jane Arrell, Wem, a Stormatic daughter also bred from eight generations of top classified dams. Cattle were distributed from Scotland to South Wales and to

Essex. Apart from a couple of special individuals which stole the show somewhat, trade was very level with demand being particularly strong for the powerful heifers with good udders and lots of milk. Frailer, narrower heifers, irrespective of how milky they were, were harder to clear in comparison. The highlight of the whole day was the sale of the Champion female from the Gould family; this quite outstanding heifer displayed all the attributes required in a modern, top class animal. Bidding opened at 3000gns and quickly soared past the previous record of 6000gns until the hammer finally fell at 8200 gns to Martin Evans buying for his Pryddbwll herd at Llangedwyn, Oswestry. The next top seller in the milking heifers was Aintree Goldwyn Nugget E ET GP84-2yr from Richard and Ruth Pilkington of Wrexham, a very powerful Goldwyn daughter bred from the high component and high type Nugget family. She sold to Hywel and Sheila Evans, Llansilin, Oswestry. The Reserve Champion was next in line selling at 2900gns to D Bunting & Son, New Abbey, Dumfries. Two more milkers made 2600 gns each which included the top priced cow Preview Ja- Bob Quality from Andrew Rutter of Haslington, an outstanding Red and White November calved second calf daughter of Ja- Bob Jordan Red which sold to Ted Fearon of Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria. Also selling at this price was Fieldside Yarrow 55, a daughter of Denmire Monitor from Harry and Vera Jolly of Great Eccleston, Preston which sold to Robbie Bell of Knutsford. The inclusion at the end of the sale of a special section for superbly bred heifer calves under the title ‘Excellent calves from Excellent Dams’ added to the sale celebrations and was well received by purchasers. Top in this section was 4900gns for Sterndale Lightning Ghost from Bill Nadin; this August 2009 daughter of Lylehaven Lightning has three VG-2yr sisters and her seven nearest dams are all EX and sold to Mark Robinson of Faddiley, Nantwich. Two calves made 4600gns each; the first was Chaterley Goldwyn Adeena ET from Stan Price of Stockport, a Goldwyn from the heart of the noted Alicia family selling to Albert Innes-Smith of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the second was Excel Jeeves Sally, a July 2009 Jeeves daughter who is sister to the noted show cow Styche Lyster Sally EX93. She was purchased by M J & J M Thomasson of Worleston, Nantwich for their Astlowhall herd

Embryos were a mixed trade and topped at 520gns per egg for sexed semen eggs sired by Riverdane Adventure Red out of

Baileys Lakeside Molli Red EX90.

Averages: 29 cows £1808, 85 milking heifers £2095, 2 in-calf heifers £2037; 8 maiden heifers £3596, 124 head £2124.

Auctioneers: Wright Manley

48 THE JOURNAL JUNE 2010

Winnoch Warden hits top spot

The seventh spring bull sale in association with the Border & Lakeland Holstein Club was held at Borderway Mart, Carlisle on Wednesday 17 March. Demand for bulls of all ages was strong; bulls were dispersed across the UK and Ireland with an 80% clearance and an average of £1930. Buyers were in the market for sires with strong powerful frames and were willing to pay a premium for pedigrees that consistently produced higher percentages of butterfat and protein.

The event was kindly sponsored by Coomara Vets, the show was judged by well know Lancashire breeder James Tomlinson from the Bilsrow herd. Champion bull went to the Annandale herd of Matthew Armour, The Milton, Moffat with the first place senior bull Annandale Ashton, a Ked Juror son from six generations of VG and EX dams from the Ada family. This stylish bull sold for 1700gns and now joins the herd of D & I Dyer, Crawley Farm, Yarcombe, Devon. Reserve Champion was the first price intermediate bull consigned by Kevin and Christine Wilson Wood Farm, Carlisle. This powerful young sire was sired by Erbacres Damion from an impressive cow family with five generations of cows classified in the top two grades. He was purchased by K D Askwith, High Woody Field, Co Durham and sold for 3,800gns, the second highest price of the day. First bull in the catalogue was Winnoch Warden, an impressive bull with a long dairy frame, super feet and legs and a pedigree that combined everything that is great about the Holstein and British Friesian breeds. He was sired by Stardale Roberto from a Dripps Rio dam that had an impressive third lactation of 9532 kg 3.95% 3.47%. He placed second to the overall Champion in the judging and went on to sell for a top price of 4,000gns to an undisclosed Northern Irish buyer. Averages: 26 Holstein bulls £1780, 4 British Frisian bulls £2914, 30 bulls averaged £1931.

Auctioneers: Harrison & Hetherington

Spring Fever at Sedgemoor

Greenslade Taylor Hunt held their annual Spring Fever at Sedgemoor Auction Centre on Tuesday 23 March. Of the 50 fresh milkers in the collective section, 17 sold for over £2,000. The day’s top call came for T R Quick’s Mendip FC Blossom 36, a January calved heifer from the herd’s most prolific family which made 2,220gns. The day’s second highest price and top priced cow came from first time consigners Rookhaye Estate with their much admired Rookhaye Lucente Jantje who had just calved to her third and was giving 53.4 kg daily; she joins the Bettiscombe herd of Roland and Simon Bugler for 2,200gns. The only Rookhaye heifer forward sold for 2120gns and their consignment averaged £1966.

Other regular consigners were in strong demand with the calved heifer Moorshard Final Cut Trien from R K & S K Miller & Sons selling for 2150gns. Messrs Bugler’s Bettiscombe Samuelo Lenora sold for 2120gns, Ian Dimond’s Dorset Champion Fable sold for 2205gns and A J Bennett and Sons

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