Reaching the top price of £2,000 in the annual Grass Masters Online Sale of Traditional Herefords running from 28 – 30 June was the January 2023-born heifer Carpenters Curly 21st from I & H MacLeod, Malvern, selling to the Cressage herd of JN & MJ Ellis, Shrewsbury. This homebred heifer was sold in-calf to yearling bull Carpenters Lysander, both animals having had recent success winning the Junior Female and Junior Male Championships respectively at the Royal Three Counties Show. Also selling to JN & MJ Ellis at £1,500 was another in-calf heifer from the same herd, the March 2022-born Carpenters Lavender 3rd.
Another purchaser picking up multiple lots was HCS Young Hereford Breeder L Smith from Wakefield, who secured the well-proven herd sire Laxfield Juror for £1,500, along the with in-calf heifer Margarita Countess W291 at £1,100, from the entries forward as part of the full dispersal of the Glansevin herd of M Percival, Suffolk. The same buyer also put in the winning bid of £400 for embryos collected from Llwynobin Maria 1st, the only remaining Original Population female from the Maria family, as part of an important project undertaken by owners S Woods & W Van Beele, Herefordshire, to repopulate this rare line.
Selling at £1,400 from the Hockerwood herd of P & E Lynn, Southwell, was in-calf heifer Hockerwood Venus 14th. Sired by the highly regarded and prolific bull Shefford Monarch and in-calf to the Lynn’s new young herd sire Gavelock Doggett, this heifer travels to R Turner’s Tycarreg herd based in Llanymynech.
Four lots made their way to Aberdeenshire to establish a new herd for P Donald, Inverurie, each selling for £1,000. These comprised the 2021-born Kileekie Zephyr Model 3rd with her bull calf at foot sired by Boresisle Jupiter, and maiden heifer Kileekie China Model 5th, both lots bred and sold by A & S Sykes, Ayrshire, alongside a further two maiden females – Langridge Smartie and Langridge Sashay – bred and sold by F V Cook, Cambridge.
Another purchased from the Glansevin dispersal was the first lot in the sale, Herouldmede Caroline 3rd, picked up by T Robinson for the Rangemoor herd, Buxton, at £1,000. PD in-calf to Laxfield Juror, this good-bodied breeding cow was originally bred by the Woods Van Beele Partnership.
Three embryos collected from P & E Lynn’s donor dam Hockerwood Lucy and sired by the popular AI bull Margarita Sebastian were sold at £250 per embryo to repeat purchaser J Reed, Salisbury.
Grass Masters is an online timed auction of pedigree Traditional Hereford bulls, females, semen and embryos. Presenting genetics which are famed worldwide for their ability to thrive on pasture-based diets, using low inputs to produce a high-yielding, compact beef carcase.
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