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sale dates / sale reports / carlisle 18th october 200326th NATIONAL AUTUMN SHOW & SALE of PEDIGREE LIMOUSIN BULLS30,000Gns Top Price at Carlisle Limousin Sale The second highest price paid for a Limousin bull in the United Kingdom, 30,000gns, was the spectacular lead price in a strong day’s trading at the British Limousin Cattle Society’s October bull sale at Borderway Market, Carlisle on Saturday 18th October 2003. 129 bulls, an increase of seven on the year, sold to an average of £3510.65, again up £320 on the corresponding sale. Nineteen bulls sold for 6000gns or more with three at 12,000gns or more as commercial buyers competed fiercely with pedigree breeders for quality selected bulls. The clearance rate of bulls sold was 61% of the 210 forward.
The top price was paid for Wilodge Tonka, a January 2002
born calf, bred and sold by Christine Williams and Richard Bartle,
Lodge Hill Farm, Shifnal, Shropshire. This exceptional bull had been
the young star of the summer show circuit having won the breed’s
junior championships at both the Royal and Royal Welsh shows along
with the junior interbreed titles and the Marks & Spencer Beefbreeder
titles at the same shows. At the pre-sale show at Carlisle, he was
placed Senior section Champion. Tonka was sired by the William’s
French stock bull, Oxygene, a son of the 1999 Paris Show Champion Janvier
and is out of the proven Wilodge Meclaire. The purchaser was Paul Dawes,
Kipperknowle Farm, Dinmore Manor, Herefordshire who runs the 50 cow
strong Dinmore pedigree herd in addition to 250 commercial cows. Mr.
Dawes immediate plans are to collect semen from the bull for both domestic
and international availability. Naturally he was delighted with his
purchase. “Tonka has everything. He combines the breeding, class
and correctness for pedigree use and has outstanding shape and conformation
for the commercial market. Initially I will use Tonka on my pedigree
cows and use his semen on the commercial herd,” he said.
Perthshire farmer Peter Alexander, Mains of Mause, Blairgowrie,
paid the second top price of 15,000gns for the bull Graham’s
Trooper. The bull, bred and sold by Robert Graham, Airthrey Kerse,
Bridge of Allan, Stirling, is to be used exclusively on the Alexander’s
extensive and quality commercial herd of _ bred and above Limousin
females and was selected with a view to breeding female replacements
in a closed herd. This April 2002 born bull was sired by Grahams Poncho
and is out of the French bred cow Habitude. Poncho is maternal brother
to Grahams Samson, sold for a world record price of 55,000gns at Carlisle
in February this year. A good team of bulls from David and Ronald Dick, Mains
of Throsk, Stirling was headed by the show’s Reserve Senior Champion,
Ronick Tabloid, who sold for 7500gns to Messrs GL & D Reid, South
Park House, Muthill, Crieff. Sired by the Marron son, Bailea Olympia,
purchased at Carlisle for 14,000gns, this January 2002 born calf was
out of the Talent sired cow Ronick Newsworthy and sported a beef value
of LM31. Ronick Topic by the same sire, Bailea Olympia and out of the
Ronick Gains cow, Ronick Lucinda, later sold for 7000gns to Messrs
R&R Gornall, Croft House, Cowgill, Dent, Sedbergh. This March 2002
born bull had a beef value of LM26. Jim Goldie, Townfoot, Mouswald, Dumfries had a good day at the office when selling two bulls at 7000gns and 6000gns respectively. Goldies Terry, an embryo calf, was purchased by Mark and Helen Lewis for their establishing pedigree herd at Portgate, Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland. This bull’s sire is the French bred Ideal, a son of Flasch. Goldies Terry’s dam Beresina, is also French bred. Selling at 6000gns was Goldies Tycoon, another embryo calf and a powerful son of the French bull Domino. This young June 2002 born calf, out of the French female Dalida, carried a high beef value of LM34 and sold to E&G Jones & Sons, Maesterran, Penegoes, Machynlleth, Powys. Ronick Hawk breeding was again apparent in Millbrow Trooper,
a smart February 2002 born bull from George and Pat Long, Mill Brow
Farm, Skelwith Bridge, Ambleside, Cumbria. Sired by the Hawk son, Highcross
Pete, Trooper is out of the Ferry sired Millbrow Magic. He sold for
7000gns to Nether Hall Farm, Nether Hall, Mansergh, Kirkby Lonsdale,
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