MIXBURY HALL LUCINDA CROWNED 2025 BRITISH SIMMENTAL VIRTUAL SHOW SUPREME CHAMPION!
429 Simmentals entered in this year’s competition over six classes. 2020 born cow wins Overall Supreme Champion Vale Royal North Star wins Male Championship and places Overall Reserve Champion and Reserve both from the Mixbury Hall herd The 2025 British Simmental...
MIXBURY HALL LUCINDA WINS 2025 SIMMENTAL VIRTUAL SHOW FEMALE CHAMPIONSHIP!
It’s the second ‘big reveal’ of Simmental Super Sunday and the 2025 Simmental Virtual Show as we now turn to the ladies. A mighty 288 super Simmental females were entered across three classes as this competition continues to go from strength to strength. Taking an...
Perth Autumn Sale
The 102 bulls sold averaged £3413 – down £24 on last year when 105 changed hands.
Top price of the day came for the reserve junior champion, the March 2003 Woodhall Premier, from Hector MacAskill, Woodhall, Dunbar, and sold to Richard Rodgers, Portglenone, Co Antrim, for 13,000gns.
The junior champion, the May 2003 Skerrington Pinnacle, from John Young, Skerrington Mains, Kilmarnock, made 12,000gns. The buyer was Billy MacPherson, Blackford, Inverness.
The supreme champion, the March Corskie Principal from Jim and Ian Green, Corskie, Fochabers, Moray, sold for 11,000gns. This beast joins the pedigree herd of Boddington Estates, near Cheltenham. The sire, Popes Laird, cost 12,000gns in February 2002 and has proved to be real breeder and an outstanding bargain.
Another son of this bull from Corskie, a second prize winner, sold at 10,000gns to Adrian Ivory, Strathisla Farms, Meigle, Perth.
Billy MacPherson, of Blackford, has bred numerous fine bulls this year. He had a top of 7000gns selling to Forteviot Farms, Dupplin, Perth, where the bull will be run with commercial cows.
