SALES SUMMARY
Reporting on the latest auctions, dispersals and sales from around the United Kingdom
Renowned Bloodlines Attract Buyers
Auctioneers: RICHARD TURNER & SON Renowned bloodlines attracted a packed ringside of buyers to Gisburn Auction Marts pedigree dairy sale. Sale leader was a Picston Shottle sired heifer, giving 32 litres and 14 days calved from Philip Critchley, Wrea Green, Preston which sold for £2,700 to Doug Graves, Armathwaite, Carlisle. Next under the hammer were another two heifers from Mr Critchley, this time Huddleston Saruman and Schillview Oman Gerard daughter which sold for £2,400 and £2,250. Causing a great deal of pre-sale interest was Saltergate Miss America 19, again sired by Picston Shottle out of an EX90 dam. Giving 28 litres and 14 days calved from Ben Hardcastle & Sons, Killinghall, Harrogate, she sold for £2,500 to Edward Fort, Silsden, Keighley.
Regular vendors in the money included Lee Donkin, Copster Green, Blackburn with a Bosside Altraross sired heifer, giving 31 litres and 11 days calved which sold for £2,450 and James Rogerson, Poulton Le Fylde, with his Lynncrest Zebra which sold for £2,100.
Non catalogue entries were just as easily sold with J & P A Baldwin & Sons, Brindle Chorley achieving £2,480 for a fresh heifer, not far behind was J Bland, Arnside, Silverdale with a pair of heifers which sold for £2,400 and £2,350. In- calf cattle also achieved premium prices with S Fairclough & Sons, Radcliffe, Greater Manchester selling at £2,000 for a springing heifer. Commenting on the day’s sale, Fred Spurgeon, Dairy Auctioneer, said “The quality bloodlines and clean TB status of cattle attracted keen buyers from northern England and Scotland.” The sale was kindly sponsored by Cogent Breeding.
May Sale has Snow on Top
Averages: 121 Overall average £1,895.40; 10 Cows in-milk/ calf £1,879.50; 96 Heifers in-milk/calf £1,936.80; 15 In-calf heifers £1,571.80. Auctioneers: H&H
Quality cows and heifers were in abundance at the May Border & Lakeland Club Show & Sale held at Borderway, Carlisle with a number of top herds offering some of their very best animals. Prices for top quality heifers were slightly up on the month before however the overall average was slightly down with buyers deciding to be more selective. This sale remains one of the best places in the UK and Europe to buy quality Holstein animals from high health herds. The sale commenced with nine charity lots for the Craig Bell Memorial Fund with all the money raised going to the Brain Tumour Charity. Simon Hesketh who was the herdsman at Holmland for a number of years offered a day’s hoof trimming and this sold for £350 to Matt Bland, Hesket Farm, Penrith. Other lots included semen and embryos, in total the auction raised over £7,000 and the Bell family would like to pass on their deepest and heartfelt gratitude for everyone’s kindness.
Sponsoring the event was Paragon Veterinary Group 114 THE JOURNAL AUGUST 2014
and Cogent and the judge was Mr James McNeil from the Cairnpat herd in Stranraer. The overall Champion was awarded to Snow Peggy consigned by G & M Wilson, Lowfi eld Farm, Appleby. This beautifully balanced heifer had a special udder that fl irted with perfection. She was sired by Gillette Jordan and was giving over 40kgs, she sold for 2,800gns to the Woodcatt herd. Another classy uddered heifer from the same herd sold for 2,800gns, Snow Mushroom sired by Denmire Murphy selling to F S Sturrock & Sons, Cleveland.
Reserve Champion went to the fi rst place cow Bankview Laxton Lynne consigned by J A H Walton & Son, Bank View, Kirby Stephen. This stylish black silky cow displayed outstanding quality and sold for 1,900gns to J H Sloan & Son, Dormieston Farm, Ayrshire. Topping the day’s trade was a heifer with a special pedigree from the Pinehurst Rhapsody family consigned by the Armour family at Moffat. Annandale Hambone Rhapsody was potentially the thirteenth generation of Excellent classifi ed cows, she sold for 3,900gns to D C Hall, Church Close Farm, Skipton. The Brewster family from Boclair consigned three special heifers, the best topping at 2,650gns for Boclair Triumphant Vision. She was sired by Boclair Triumphant and bred from a super line of high producing cows with very high components. Commenting on the trade after the sale, auctioneer Glyn Lucas said: “Buyers have had a high class of animals to choose from today and it is nice to see quality and special pedigrees achieving a premium. Trade for fresh calvers has dropped in recent weeks due to a lot of bulk tanks running close to capacity and the seasonal milk price drop has dinted producer confi dence.”
LEADING PRICES LOT
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PURCHASER D C Hall
D R & H M Horsley Ltd F S Sturrock and Sons Undisclosed Buyer F S Sturrock and Sons
Dinnaton to top at 3,000gns
Averages: £1785.00 Auctioneers: GREENSLADE TAYLOR HUNT Auctioneers Greenslade Taylor Hunt were delighted to be back on farm at Ivybridge in South Devon for the dispersal sale of Derek & Jeremy Dennis’s Dinnaton herd. Their decision to sell their milking herd drew purchasers from across the South West and Wales, with no less than 77 cows and heifers selling for over £2,000. Dinnaton Milton Bogart Roxy who had been classifi ed VG86 as a heifer was from the world renowned Roxy family with the likes of Shalama and Hanoverhill in her back pedigree, she calved in January, served to Dorcy and topped the day at 3,000gns to the Larkworthy family from
GNS 3,900 2,800 2,800 2,650 2,500
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