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The Hereford Year

Herefords again top

Beef Expo

WORDS NZHA ABOVE: Matatoki Oklahoma 1529 seen at the bull grazing unit.
PHOTOGRAPHS MARIA ROBBIE / SUPPLIED

A HEREFORD BULL TOPPED the national sale at Beef Expo placed Tru-Test SuperSire, Merrylea Flash, sold for $20,000,
for the second year running, and Herefords also recorded the and second place sire, Grassmere Gallant 152 from Hawkridge
highest sale average. Run, sold for $40,000.
The 2017 Tru-Test Beef Expo was an overall success story Other notable sales included Otapawa Admiral, sold by the
for Herefords, enjoying the best sale average of $14,083 (up Robbie family to Glenbrae Stud for $32,000.
from last year’s average of $9587) and also claiming the top The Hereford Unled Female class was won by the Clements
price bull. family with Matapouri Fern 15137, which later sold for the top
Grassmere Gallant 152, belonging to Chris and Amanda female Hereford price at expo of $3,200.
Jeffries from Cheviot, topped the sale, selling for $40,000 to For the second year ‘Pick of the Drop’ ran, whereby the
Chris and Jennifer Chesterman from Koanui Polled Hereford purchaser has first pick (one calf) of the 2016 heifer mob, this
Stud, Havelock North. year from Orari Gorge. The Peacock family generously donated
Fiona and Paul Scott from Matatoki Stud would have been the proceeds of the sale to those affected by the Kaikoura
thrilled with their decision to enter Beef Expo, winning the earthquake, and Gray Pannett from Limehills purchased a calf
Honda Motorcycles Impact Unled class and then Supreme for $5,500.
Champion Hereford with their sire Matatoki Oklahoma 1529 The Points Competition (best two animals by one vendor)
(sire Monymusk Grenade). was won by Merrylea Stud, the McKercher family. Lynn Barnett,
The Scotts usually sell their bulls using Agonline, but felt that wife of NZHA president Phil Barnett, awarded the E M Williamson
Oklahoma 1529 had something special about him, so decided
to enter him into Expo.
Hereford Expo judge Greg Chamberlain from Cheviot
(Capethorne Polled Herefords) obviously liked what he saw,
buying the bull later in the day for $17,000.
Martin Taylor’s unled bull Glenbrae Leroy 1546 was placed
second in the Honda Motorcycles Impact Unled Sires class and
later sold for $14,000. Orari Gorge Polaris 150063 placed third.
Chamberlain and associate judge, Andy Denham, awarded
Okahu X Factor, (Kelly O’Neil’s sire) first prize in the Honda
Motorcycles Led Impact Sires class, with Foulden Falcon 15
336 in second. Matthew and Luke Swann clearly agreed with
the judges’ choice, purchasing Okahu X Factor for $30,000.
The first and second placed sires in Tru-Test SuperSires
class, having proven their worth by being used over a minimum Grassmere Gallant 152, belonging to Chris and Amanda
of 15 females, were rewarded with strong sales prices. First Jeffries, topped the Beef Expo sale, selling for $40,000.
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