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The Hereford Year

Two years

in a row for

Grassmere Stud

PICTURED: Otapawa Admiral 5001 sold for $32,000 to the Glenbrae Stud WORDS ANDREW RUSSO
at Dannevirke, the second top price for 2017. PHOTOGRAPHS MARIA ROBBIE / SUPPLIED

THE SALE OF GRASSMERE GALLANT 152 for $40,000 at Monymusk Polled Herefords, Te Anau, had an exceptional
Beef Expo made it two years in a row for the Jeffries family in Beef Expo, selling two top sons of homebred sire Monymusk
achieving the top sale price at this auction. Henry – Monymusk Knight 150047 for $26,000 to Bexley
Backing up the $42,000 paid for Grassmere Gallant 9 in Herefords, and Monymusk Kelpie 150116 for $16,000 to
2016, Grassmere Gallant 152 is also a son of the very popular Riverlee Herefords. As the bulls sold for stud duties in the North
sire, Monymusk Gallant, and sold to Koanui Polled Herefords, Island, the Monymusk prefix will continue to have a strong
Hawke’s Bay. influence New Zealand-wide in the Hereford seedstock industry.
Following on from top price at Beef Expo, the Grassmere on- Other sales of note at Beef Expo included South Island
farm sale was just as strong, with further sons of Gallant selling Super Sire entry Merrylea Flash, a Capethorne 10 34 son,
strongly, pushing the average to a nationwide top of $8460 on making $20,000 for the McKerchar family of Cave and heading
15 bulls sold. Further sons of Monymusk Gallant sold for stud to a new home in the south at Haldon Station.
duties at the sale, including sales to Otapawa and Kokonga at Young breeder Will Gibson, Foulden Hill Herefords, had an
$14,000 and $10,000 respectively. exciting Beef Expo, selling his led bull Foulden Hill Falcon 15
The second and third top prices for 2017 also came from 336 for $17,000 to Matapouri Herefords, Whangarei. Falcon is
the New Zealand National Show and Sale at Beef Expo. sired by a Foulden Hill-bred bull and out of a young Matapouri
Selling for $32,000 was the led bull, Otapawa Admiral 5001, cow, purchased by Will at Beef Expo from Falcon’s new owners.
a bull that had attracted overseas interest before the sale and Paul and Fiona Scott’s Supreme Champion bull Matatoki
found plenty of interest in the selling arena, eventually being Oklahoma sold to the judge on the day, Greg Chamberlain of
knocked down to Glenbrae Stud, Dannevirke. Admiral 5001 has Capethorne Herefords, who backed his high opinion to the tune
a sire-line that traces back to Kairuru Flint, a bull purchased as a of $17,000. Oklahoma is another bull with a strong influence of
yearling from Beef Expo, and from a female that contains two of Monymusk breeding, being sired by Monymusk Grenade.
the most influential sires in the Hereford breed – Otapawa Spark Koanui Polled Herefords, Maraetotara, Hawke’s Bay,
3060 and Otapawa Skymate. catalogued a large number of two-year-old bulls and were
Closely behind at $30,000 was another led bull, Okahu rewarded with a top on-farm price of $29,000. The top-priced
X-Factor, from long-time Beef Expo vendors Okahu Trust, bull was Koanui Exfactor 5041, a high indexing, lower birth
Raetihi. The extremely well grown young bull was sired by weight son of Okawa Marshall 1103, who sold to Craigmore
Newcastle Grand 1133 – who again was a Beef Expo purchase Herefords, Hamilton. As always, a number of bulls were sold for
and, interestingly, as with the second top priced bull, traces stud duty, including bulls going to Kairuru Herefords at $15,000,
back to Otapawa Spark 3060. Matthew and Luke Swann Lake Station at $12,000, Gembrooke at $12,000, and Kaipara
purchased X-Factor. Herefords at $11,000. Fifty-three bulls sold for an impressive
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