40 | SALES
Heifer trade hot at autumn sale The trade on heifers remained strong at the society’s autumn parade and sale, with show heifers averaging £3,327. The sale leader was Sky High 1 Miss Staffordshire from Boomer Birch and Graham Brindley which sold for 7,000gns. Demand for females remained strong throughout the Hereford Cattle Society’s autumn sale, with show heifers averaging £3,327 and clearing to 96 per cent. The day’s proceedings concluded with two reduction sales which saw a consignment of seven females from Staffordshire-based Sky High Herefords owned by Boomer Birch and Graham Brindley with a total clearance at an average of £6,315. Peaking at 7,000gns, Sky High 1 Miss Staffordshire lead the day’s trade which was purchased by Will Medforth, Llanrug, Gwynedd along with the following lot, its daughter, Sky High 1 Staffordshire Lass at 6,500gns. The Sky High entries saw Gouldingpoll 1 Duchess 967 hit 6,800gns, with Steven O’Kane putting in the winning bid on behalf of a client. The consignment also included Sky High 1 L’amour Lucy which sold at 6,200gns to G and A Redmayne, Kendal while the hammer went down at 5,800gns for Sky High 1 Lady Leshurr to A Newton, Antrobus, Cheshire and 5,400gns for Sky High 1 Demeter to an undisclosed buyer.
Sky High 1 Miss Staffordshire from B Birch and G Brindley sold for 7,000gns while its calf sold separately for 6,500gns
Sky High 1 L'amour Lucy from B Birch and G Brindley sold for 6,200gns
