Angus bull sold for $92K

An angus bull has sold for an eyewatering $92,000 after two buyers pooled their resources to bag the beast.

The bull was the first of four from Wairoa’s Cricklewood Angus to go under the hammer at Tangihau Station, northwest of Gisborne, yesterday.

The rising two-year-old was bought by Kenhardt Angus, on the East Coast, and Mt Mable Angus, from Woodville.

For Mt Mable’s Kevin and Megan Friel, the interest in and competition for ‘‘Lot 1’’ came as a surprise.

‘‘We hadn’t been able to get to the bull walk the weekend before because we had our own sale,’’ Megan Friel said.

‘‘But we’d bred the Mt Mable bull who was grand sire of this one and sire of the $100,000 bull sold to Cricklewood in 2015. We were definitely interested.’’

While online videos had piqued the couple’s interest, seeing the bull in the flesh confirmed it.

‘‘We could see straight away he had great feet, a fantastic temperament, good confirmation,’’ Friel said.

Realising competition would be fierce, the couple approached Kenhardt’s Grant Crawshaw about combining their best offers.

‘‘We just about needed it all in the end, there wasn’t much left over,’’ Friel said.

The two studs have already agreed a joint-custody arrangement of sorts, with the bull to spend three weeks at each property over mating.