The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Sale averages Charolais
(TSI) of +62 this one sold to large scale commercial producers Ross Farms, Wester Middleton, Gorebridge.
Among a clutch of bulls selling at the 10,000gns mark was the senior and overall champion from Robert Tremayne and Michelle Hanson, Higher Marne Farm, Helston, Truro.
Remarkably this was the first bull the pair had ever sold at Stirling but winning the top show honours plus gaining a fivefigure price made the long journey from Cornwall well worthwhile.
They only started their herd five years ago and it now numbers 18 cows.
Their bull, Marne Impeccable, was reserve male at the breed national show at the National Exhibition Centre and is by 2014 Royal Highland champion Rumsden Fawkes.
His new owner is WJ Fraser and Son, Auchnarrow, Glenlivet.
Former Charolais president Gilbert Crawford, Coolnaslee, Co Londonderry, was another to receive 10,000gns with his Coolnaslee Ivanhoe by Maerdy Fiend going to Peter Donger, Seawell Grounds, Towcester.
Ivanhoe was a first prize winner at this year’s Balmoral Show.
Andrew Brown, Swallow Cottage, Selby, sold at 10,000gns with his Ellerton Independent by Lowerffrydd Benhurr off to join Victor Chestnut’s herd at Bushmills, Northern Ireland.
The last of the day to make 10,000gns was Swalesmoor Immortal from Danny Sawrij’s Swalesmoor herd at Kedzlie, Galashiels.
Immortal’s sire was Swalesmoor Cupid, supreme champion at the 2008 Perth October sale.
The purchaser was J Warnock, Dreva, Broughton, Biggar.
Major David Walter, Balthayock, Glencarse, sold to 9,500gns for a Barbican Lancer son Balthayock Ivo.
This one is a heifer’s calf, with Major Walter noting that Lancer had proved notable for siring bulls with easy calving characteristics.
Ivo is off to Orkney to his new home with JR and DB Rendall, Whitehow, Papa Westray.
Another to be knocked down at 9,500gns was the junior bull Goldies Inferno from Hamish Goldie, South Bowerhouses, Dumfries. The buyer was JWW Sutherland and Son, Stainland, Caithness.
fEmalEs of Goldies Ali, sold in-calf to Blelack Digger to Boden & Davies, Mellor Hall Farms, Cheshire.
Next best at 4,600gn was an in-calf heifer from the Caithness herd of D&M Campbell, Cruachan, Lingland, Occumster, Lybster.
Caithness Hannah, by Harviestoun Casino and out of Caithness Clover, was snapped up by G Russell, Lesliepark, Denny, Stirlingshire.