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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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 TH
 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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