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The Hereford Year

GRASSMERE POLLED HEREFORD STUD Hat trick for Grassmere

Est. 1966

WORDS ANDREW RUSSO PHOTOGRAPHS REBECCA WILLIAMS / SUPPLIED

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SALE THURSDAY 6 JUNE 2019, 2PM
IN CONJUNCTION WITH: RIVERLANDS J ANGUS &
CAPETHORNE POLLED HEREFORDS
THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED LAST YEAR’S SALE

GRASSMERE

GALLANT 244

TOP PRICED
HEREFORD FOR 2018

Sold on farm for $60,000.
Huge thanks to Beechwood
and Richon studs for their
purchase.

PICTURED: Grassmere Gallant 244 sold for $60,000 to the partnership of Beechwood and Richon Studs.
GRASSMERE
GRASSMERE MADE IT THREE YEARS IN A ROW selling New to fellow South Island breeders Okawa Herefords for $33,000.
GALLANT 996 Zealand’s top priced Hereford bull, with yet another son of Starter 160062 was used in the Limehills herd as a yearling

Monymusk Gallant – Grassmere Gallant 244 – topping the table and contains a pedigree with a double up of the influential
Purchased back from
at $60,000. A partnership of Beechwood and Richon Studs Monymusk Captain, and has all breeding indexes in the top 1%.
Glenbrae Herefords.
won the bidding duel for the impressive sire, who combines Other strong prices at the auction included Limehills Gallant
996 was sold at the 2015 good calving ease and moderate birth weight with very strong 160033, another bull used in the herd with high indexes, selling
Beef Expo for $12,000. carcass traits. A second Monymusk Gallant son – Grassmere to a partnership of Mahuta and Craigmore studs for $31,000,
Semen exported to Australia. Gallant 266 – sold for $14,000 to Monymusk Polled Herefords, Limehills Starter 160133 to Beaumont at $17,000, and Limehills
Te Anau. These sales helped push the sale average to a Wizard 160101 to Leithen Valley Farm at $15,500. The sale
staggering $14,875 for eight bulls sold. ended with 49 of 51 bulls sold at an average of $9512, with 15
Koanui Polled Herefords in Havelock North sold the largest bulls selling for more than $10,000 each.
catalogue of bulls in the autumn 2018 sales and were rewarded
with an impressive average of $12,295, with the full catalogue of
63 bulls sold. An amazing nine bulls sold for more than $20,000
each, with the top price coming in at $51,000 for Koanui Techno
6179. Techno 6179 is a son of the popular international sire
Koanui Techno 3062 and was highly sought after for his perfect
cosmetics combined with high growth and exceptional carcass
traits. The third top price sale of the year was also achieved at
this sale with Koanui Hurricane 6110, a son of Koanui Hood
3125, reaching $34,000 to the bid of Andy Denham, Stoneburn
Herefords, Otago. Other notable sales were Koanui Techno
6124, the highest indexing bull in the catalogue, to Shadow
Downs Stud, Taranaki, for $28,000 and Koanui Byline 6317, a
very correct bull that had been used in the herd, to Gary and
Lorraine Peters of Willowspring Herefords, Otorohanga, for
Chris & Amanda Jeffries - Benmore, 1412 Domett Road, RD2, Cheviot 7382 $26,500. A total of 13 bulls were sold for transfer as stud sires.
Limehills Herefords in Roxburgh came in with the fourth Koanui Techno 6179 sold for $51,000 to the Glenbrae Hereford
Ph/Fax: 03 319 8585 • Mobile: 027 460 8849 • Email: hawkridge@amuri.net top priced bull of 2018, with Limehills Starter 160062 selling Stud, Porangahau.

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