Pedigree Blonde d'Aquitaine Cattle Sale 9th October 2003

pedigree beef cattle / blonde / SALE 9th October 2003

	Annual Autumn Show and Sale of Blonde d'Aquitaine Pedigree Bulls & Females Thursday 9th October 2003
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Baby bull leads the Blonde price line-up at Carlisle

The youngest and the oldest bulls were among the leading prices at the British Blonde Society’s annual autumn show and sale at Borderway Mart, Carlisle on Thursday October 9th 2003.

Judge Brian Elliot, of the Millend herd, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, selected two sons of the AI bull Whitefield Leader as his champion and reserve at the pre-sale show.

Pioneer Tanna

However, it was Mr Elliot’s reserve champion and the baby bull of the sale which made the leading price of 3,600gns for North Wales breeder and commercial cattle showman Jim Hollingsworth. The October 2002 born Pioneer Tanna was two weeks off 12 months old on the sale day and making the top bid at the sale conducted by Harrison & Hetherington was one of the breed’s most northerly UK enthusiasts, A & P Munro, Coplich Farm, Alness, Ross-shire.

Mr Hollingsworth runs a small herd of five pedigree Blonde females in his Pioneer herd at Pandy Farm, Afonwen, Mold, Denbighshire. He favours the Blonde bull to cross with the Belgian Blue to produce top show cattle and last year he produced the National Primestock Show heifer champion which went on to sell at Ruthin market for 295p per kg – the highest price achieved for a prime beast in North Wales markets.

Sold out of the ring at the next highest price of 3,500gns was a 27 month old bull from south Wales breeders Messrs Davies, of Fronfedw, Ciliau Aeron, Lampeter, Dyfed. By Whistley Oedema, Fronfedw Scott was the Blonde champion at St Clears show this season as well as taking the Blonde male championship and being in the interbreed group of five line-up at this year’s Royal Welsh Show. The bull stays in Cumbria selling to JF & C Saunders, of High Bank, Dalton in Furness.

Stubbswalden Stevie

Ken and Anita Jackson had also used Whitefield Leader, bred by North of Scotland breeder Eric Mutch of Banff, to sire their supreme champion Stubbswalden Stevie from their herd of 30 Blondes at Little Grove Farm, Stubbs Walden, Doncaster. The oldest bull in the catalogue at 29 months, after a successful show career including male champion at the Royal and Newark shows, Stevie sold for the third top price of the day at 3,000gns. Successful bidders were father and son Chris and Mark Shenton, for their Bridge Blonde herd of 70 cows in Cheshire.

Mark’s fiancée Kate Johnson said: “We liked the bull’s conformation but we also liked him because he was so quite – Ken Jackson had even had him on a visit to an old folks’ home in Doncaster where Mr Jackson sings and entertains the residents!”

The Shentons also bought the joint top priced female at 1,500gns the unhaltered April 2001 born heifer Garngour Shirley bred by J & H Clark, North Garngour Farm, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. She is a daughter of the March 1995 Carlisle supreme champion Riverside Imperial, out of Gregors Jingle. Committed to the Blonde commercially as well, Ken and Anita Jackson finish 250 Blonde-sired cattle a year from their 250-cow crossbred suckler herd.

Selling back on home ground, former Cumbrian breeders Andrew and Carol Stott, of East Balmuidy Road, Glasgow sold their reserve senior male champion Hilltop Sparky for 2,400gns toWR & AM Sayer, Grassholme Farm, Lunesdale, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Barnard Castle, County Durham. Sparky is by the successful sire of leading priced bulls, Kinaston Nyle and out of Hilltop Eve which is still breeding well as the age of 14, having produced several successful show and sale animals. A previous winner of the award for the stocksman with the best turned out animal for the sale, Andrew saw his father John take the trophy with his 14 month old heifer Felltop Tilly from his Caldbeck based herd.

Marstonmill Snowdrop

Selling for the joint top female price was the female champion a 23 month old heifer from Ian and Sue Archer, of Marston Mill Farm, Wolston, Coventry. Regulars at Carlisle sales with cattle from their 40-cow Marstonmill herd, founded in 1986, Marstonmill Snowdrop sold for 1,500gns. Snowdrop is by Garngour Isprey and out of the home-bred female Marstonmill Misty. The Archers are planning a reduction sale from their herd next year.
Leading prices –

Bulls:
Lot 42, JA Hollingsworth, Pandy Farm, Afonwen, Mold Denbighshire, Pioneer Tanna (junior male champion, reserve overall male champion and reserve supreme champion) 3,600gns to A & P Munro, Coplich Farm, Alness, Ross-shire.

Lot 2, RG Davies, Fronfedw, Ciliau Aeron, Lampeter, Dyfed, Fronfedw Scott, 3,500gns to JF & C Saunders, 17 High Bank, Dalton in Furness, Cumbria

Lot 1 K Jackson, Little Grove Farm, Stubbs Walden, Doncaster, Stubbswalden Stevie, (Senior male champion, overall male champion, supreme champion) 3,000gns to CW Shenton, Bridge Farm, Wilmslow Road, Handsforth, Cheshire

Lot 5, AJ & CD Stott, East Balmuidy Road, Glasgow, Hilltop Sparky (Reserve senior male champion) 2,400gns toWR & AM Sayer, Grassholme Farm, Lunesdale, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Barnard Castle, County Durham.

Lot 17, L & PA Haygarth, Kelleth Rigg, Kelleth, Penrith, Cumbria, Rayneside Tomo, 2000gns to T Bean & Son, Shield Farm, Muggleswick, Consett, Co Durham

Lot 14, DG Knight, Woodlands Farm, Doncombe Hill, North Wraxhall, Chippenham, Wiltshire, Doncombe Tradition, (Reserve junior male champion) 2,000gns to RW & K Telford, Branton East Side, Powburn, Alnwick, Northumberland.

Lot 24, Eric Mutch, Burnside of Whitefield, Forglen, Banff, Aberdeenshire, Whitefield Top-Flite, 2,000gns toGW & FM Jones, Garth Hall Farm, Llanfabon, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan.

Lot 23, Alan Hall, Preston Tilery Farm, Brafferton, Darlington, Co Durham, Hallmark Tonto, 1,800gns to LR, HM & IR Lewis, Dolangwynion Farm, Llandony, Carmarthenshire.

Females:
Lot 47 IC & SD Archer, Marston Mill Frm, Wolston, Coventry, Warwickshire, Marstonmill Snowdrop, (Overall female champion) 1,500gns to AR Kieth, 3 New Horton, Grange Farm Cottage, Berwick Hill Road, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Lot 61, J & H Clark, North Garngour Farm, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Garngour Shirley, 1,500gns to CW Shenton, Bridge Farm, Wilmslow Road, Handsforth, Cheshire.

Averages:
14 bulls, £2107.50 (minus £213); 6 cows or heifers with calf at foot, £1286.25 (minus £708.75); 1 heifer in calf, £1,260.00; 14 maiden heifers, £1,020.00

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