2003
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31,000gns WILODGE BULL LEADS HIGH QUALITY CARLISLE LIMOUSIN
SALE
50 Junior Bulls Average £5301 -144 Bulls Average £4046 – 31
Bulls Sell at Over £5000 – 67% Clearance Rate
A massive audience of commercial and pedigree producers competed fiercely
for a quality show of Limousin bulls at the British Limousin Cattle
Society’s Spring Show and Sale held at Borderway Market on Saturday
21st February 2004.
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| Wilodge Thumper |
Bidding was fast and furious with a terrific day’s trading topped
at 31,000gns for the junior bull Wilodge Thumper offered by the prolific
partnership of Christine Williams and Richard Bartle trading as DA
Williams, Lodge Hill Farm, Park Lane, Shifnal.
The junior section of bulls was packed full of quality and the fifty
sold from these classes averaged an incredible £5301. In all,
144 bulls averaged £4046 with 9 bulls selling at over £10,000
and 31 bulls in all (21%) selling at over £5000. The sale very
clearly demonstrated the market’s demand for first quality bulls
and the commercial producers willingness to pay five figures for bulls
of this type.
Breed Society Chairman Peter Henshall was delighted that the sale reaffirmed
the breed’s dominant industry position. “The breed’s
strengths are built on good economics. Bulls that can produce both
consistent, quality calves with conformation and also highly maternal,
efficient female replacements add up to profitability”, he said.
Wilodge Thumper, a first prize winner in the junior section, was the
first son offered at sale by Nouvelle Prospect a son of Wilson Jupiter
out of Hartside Dream. This June 2002 born calf is out of the French
bred Mascotte, a highly thought of breeding female that was purchased
as a maiden heifer from the noted Chastanet herd. Buyer of the bull
was Robert Hutchinson, Greenhill Farm, Balderton, Newark, Notts for
his establishing Beaconsfield pedigree herd. He was naturally delighted
with his purchase. “Buying this bull is an investment in building
a quality herd. He is a bull with great natural muscling and is out
of a tremendous mother. He is full of breed character with a magic
head and I will look to him producing both bulls and females”.
The Beaconsfield herd presently has 28 breeding females.
This sale also marked the continuation of a purple patch of sales for
the Wilodge herd. In 2003, the herd set out on the show circuit with
three bulls within their team. Since October of last year those three
bulls have sold for a remarkable 30,000gns, 10,000gns and 31,000gns
respectively to average just under 24,000gns!
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| Goldies Tony |
Two bulls sold at 16,000gns. The first was, Goldies Tony from Jim
Goldie, Townfoot, Mouswald, Dumfries. This bull had been placed as
Junior Champion and Supreme Champion at the pre-sale show by judge
Steven Illingworth, Howgillside, Eaglesfield, Lockerbie. An embryo
calf sired by the French bred Ideal, this July 2002 born calf was out
of Emue whose threequarter sister was twice Champion at Paris Show.
This calf went to the pedigree herd of Mr J Handley, Gunnerfleet Farm,
Chapel le Dale, Ingleton, Carnforth, Lancs.
The second bull at 16,000gns was Dyfri Tanner, again a class winner
from the junior section, from Messrs DG &MJ Edwards & Son,
Home Farm, Cilycwm, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. A July born bull,
Tanner was sired by the prolific Jockey and was out of the Normande
Jack daughter Dyfri Natalie.
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| Dyfri Tanner |
In 2003, he had been crowned Junior Champion at the Royal Welsh Show
in his only show outing. His beef value of LM+34 also put him comfortably
in the top 1% of recorded Limousin bulls. Purchasing the bull jointly
was pedigree breeders Andrew Burnett, Upper Spittalton Farm, Blair
Drummond, Stirling and Jim Mitchell, Clarkton Farm, Doune, Perthshire.
They run 25 and 30 pedigree cows respectively. “This bull had
got everything we were looking for, he had great size with terrific
power and shape and was good on his legs”, commented Mr. Mitchell.
It was the top price of a great day’s trading for the Edwards.
Four Jockey sons averaged a fantastic 8625gns with the 16,000gns being
the highest price paid to date to the Edwards for a son of this bull
sired by Gourmand and out of Coquine. During the sale six Jockey sons
were sold in total from three herds to average a massive 8750gns.
At 14,000gns was Cloughhead Tommy from George Hutton, Setmabanning,
Threlkeld, Keswick, Cumbria. This calf, a second prize winner was packed
full of shape with a tremendous hindquarter. Sired by Petunia, a son
of Malibu, he was out of the Heros sired Cloughhead Judith. This bull
was purchased by commercial man and noted show calf producers Mr & Mrs
E Jones & Daughters, Coedmore-hall, Lampeter, Dyfed.
The same purchasers had earlier bought the show’s Intermediate
Champion, Gunnerfleet Tricks for 12,000gns from Mr J Handley, Gunnerfleet
Farm, Chapel le Dale, Ingleton, Carnforth, Lancs. This May 2002 bull
had tremendous power and width and was sired by the Roncik Cosmos son
Tunnelby Monkeytricks and is out of the Heros sired Gunnerfleet Nestor.
This was the Handley’s top price of a sparkling day for Monkeytricks
breeding. Six sons of this bull, himself purchased at Carlisle for
10,000gns, averaged 7,300gns
Norman Cruickshank, Normande Limousin, Cowford Farm, Cleghorn, Lanark
made 13,000gns of his Dauphin sired embryo calf Normande Tuscan. This
well–bred bull was out of the Tarvis sired Normande Ladybird
and carried a terrific beef value of LM+39. He had placed first in
his class before winning the Reserve Intermediate Championship. Again
catching a pedigree man’s eye, this June 2002 born bull was purchased
by Roy Fisher, Castlewigg Farming Co Ltd, Castlewigg Farm, Whithorn,
Newton Stewart. Norman Cruickshank had earlier this month sold a same
way bred calf at Perth for 7400gns.
Another Tunnelby Monkeytricks son from Mr J Handley, Gunnerfleet Farm,
Chapel le Dale, Ingleton, Carnforth, Lancs sold at the next highest
price of 11,500gns. Gunnerfleet Talker, a May 2002 born bull, was out
of Gunnerfleet Lunett a Broadmeadows Cannon daughter. This bull again
had tremendous size and power and was purchased by Messrs WR & JM
Cowx, Hudscales, hesket-New-Market, Wigton who run the Hudscales pedigree
herd.
The third youngest bull in the catalogue was Ardbrack Taketime from
Martin Gethin, Cnwc Y Morfol, Letterston, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
This November 2002 born bull had placed Reserve Junior Champion before
coming through to take the Overall Reserve title. This classy young
bull showed tremendous growth and potential and was sired by the French
AI sire Imperial and was out of the Broadmeadows Cannon daughter Ardbrack
jasmine. He showed his value in making 11,000gns when selling jointly
to Archie MacGregor, Allanfauld, Kilsyth, Glasgow and Duncan MacGregor,
Dyke Farm, Milton of Campsie, Glasgow.
Heathmount Trojan was a Jockey son bred and offered by McKinney Brothers,
91 Craigadick Road, Maghera, Co. Londonderry, N.Ireland. This June
2002 born bull had, last year, placed Junior and Overall Supreme Champion
at the Royal Ulster Show. Out of the Andy Holliday bred Eden Olivia,
this bull sported a big beef value of LM+38 putting him in the breed’s
top 1% of recorded animals. A class winner here in the Junior section,
this bull made 10,800 in selling to the pedigree herd of Mr & Mrs
E Norman, Little Orton Farm, Little Orton, Cumbria.
The youngest bull in the catalogue, Mereside Topman, was offered by
AJ Hazard & SonsSaltby Heath Farm, Skillington, Grantham, Lincs.
This much admired bull was sired by the French AI sire Imperial and
stood second in his class to the eventual Reserve Overall Champion.
Showing a great width and power, Topman is out of the Wheatsheaf Laird
sired Mereside Primrose. Combining visual appearance with performance,
this bull had a beef value of LM+39. This bull was purchased by the
patient Derek Frew, 29 Kellswater Road, Antrim, Co. Antrim, who secured
his purchase for 9500gns.
ED Griffiths & Co, Cilgryman Fawr, Cwmfelin-Mynach, Henydgwyn,
Carmarthenshire sold Mynach Trey for 9000gns to Keith Redpath, Redpath
Farms, Spylaw, Kelso. Again a Junior bull this July 2002 born bull
was sired by the consistent French bull Oedipe. This sire last year
had progeny to 7,000gns at Carlisle. Mynach Trey, with a beef value
of LM+36, is out of Mynach May, a female whose breeding goes back to
the noted Funambule.
Averages
43 Senior Bulls £2546.86
51 Intermediate Bulls £4089.12
50 Junior Bulls £5301.45
144 Overall Bulls £4046.10
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