SALES
Stirling October 2021
Stirling Beef Shorthorn females in strong demand selling to 11,000gns
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eef Shorthorn females met a firm demand selling to a top of 11,000gns in Stirling on Monday 18 October, at the breed Society’s official sale.
JUDGE Danny Wyllie Burton on Trent, Staffordshire Monday, 18 October 2021
Heading the trade was a pair of 19-month-old heifers from C Lowther, Penrith, Cumbria. Sale leader at 11,000gns was Lowther Crocus W9 (P), TI +34, SRI +37, MI +24, a light roan by the 9,000gns Glenisla Lochan Dubh selling to Evans and Price, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. Close behind at 10,000gns was the female champion, Lowther Lily W10 (P), TI +50, SRI +48, MI +29, a light roan Lowther Konan daughter. The buyer was Mary Cormack, Canterbury. Kent. Next at 6,000gns was Glenisla Eva Broadhooks P492 (P), TI +41, SR +48, MI +30, a 19-month-old roan by the 7,500gns Chapelton Glen Clova. Heading a draft of heifers from Major JPO Gibb, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, she sold in a joint bid
Lowther Crocus W9, 11,000gns 140
Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society Journal 2022
to Thomas Cheetham and Thaymar, Retford, Nottinghamshire. Two entries shared a 5,000gns call. First to go was Westbroad Yoga 12th (P) TI +30, SRI +37, MI +27 from D Welsh, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. A twoyear-old in calf heifer by the 12,000gns Shawhill Leroy, she went to T Russell and S Bradley Farmer, Farringdon, Oxfordshire. Westbroad Meadowsweet 10th (P) TI +37, SRI +44, MI +28, a second two-year-old in calf heifer by Leroy from the same vendor, made 3,500gns to J Common and Son, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire. J Common and Son went on to place their second 5,000gns bid for Meonside Miss Ramsden P75 (P), TI +36, SRI +36, MI +23, the event’s reserve female champion. A 17-month-old red heifer, by Meonside King Kong she was bred and exhibited by D and T Bradley Farmer, Parkgate, Dumfriesshire.
