The Northern Ireland Simmental Club has raised a fantastic £10,000 for charity following a hugely successful fundraising BBQ at Dungannon Rugby Club in September, with an entertaining and highly successful auction proving the highlight of the evening. Around 150...
Further Haystar heifers make 9200gns, 7000gns, and 6400gns 9200gns is a Simmental centre record at Swatragh Corrick Senator makes 6000gns A stylish line up of maiden heifers from the Haystar herd of Gavin & Kyle Hayes, Upper Ballinderry, Lisburn, Co Antrim, sold...
71 Bulls average £11,025, ten more sold on the year Simmental leads all-breed averages, numbers sold, and joint top price £11,025 is second highest ever average at Stirling in October 26 make 10,000gns or more, with four at 20k and over Commercial buyers go to...
A top price of 2000gns was achieved twice in the sale of Simmental bulls at Carlisle. Supreme Champion, Drumsleed Mustang, from Gerald Smith at Blairs, Aberdeenshire was purchased by Messrs McDowell & Co for their 200 cow herd at Glenluce, Wigtonshire. Mustang is an April 2001 son of Crailing Barrister and fulfils the breed society’s Performance Recording recommendation with a Top 25% Beef Value of SM25, plus breed average Calving Value and 200 Day Milk figures.
“It is this combination of good beef type and high performance records that we are seeking to deliver,” comments Roger Trewhella, general secretary of the British Simmental Cattle Society. “There was a lot of welcome comment about the good quality of bulls forward, and it is particularly welcome when this is made by farmers using other breeds. The way forward for the breed is to continuing offering buyers bulls of an excellent type and with the Performance Records to go along side. All the bulls here were Performance Recorded and the overwhelming majority of them delivered the targets we recommend to provide good, growthy progeny for the purchasers,” concludes Roger Trewhella.
Also selling for 2000 gns was Skerrington Mutual, a Dovefields Gallant son brought out by John Young. Mutual was one of two purchases by the Logan Bros of Dalfask in Ayrshire.
Sixteen hundred guineas was also achieved twice. Mendick Murdo, the Reserve Champion from John Dykes was purchased by Messrs Dalrymple & Son, Auchtralure near Stranraer.
Messrs Clements & Sons of Borgue, Kirkcudbightshire paid the same price for Caldwell Mogul, a First prize winning son of Bemersyde Foremost.
