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CHAROLAIS HIT NEW HIGH OF €26,000
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The first production sale from the Blakestown Charolais herd, owned by Alicia and Patsy McCabe, Ardee, was an outstanding success, and achieved a new record price for Charolais when their 14 month old bull BLAKESTOWN BRION sold for €26,000 to new breeder, Fintan Sullivan, Sulmur House, Tullyallen, Drogheda.
“Blakestown Brion” is by “Blakestown Victor” (“Seigneur”, “Cooper” and “Sydney” bloodlines) and out of a home bred dam by “Major”
The under bidder was Frenchman, Jean Louis Riotte from Angely, L’Isle-sur-Serein, who two years ago, (on a judging visit to Ireland) had tried to purchase the sire of this bull “Blakestown Victor”. He returned on Saturday to buy the first auctioned produce but was outbid by a determined Fintan Sullivan.
There was a complete clearance of all bulls on offer achieving an outstanding average price of €5119 demonstrating that even in the current economic uncertainty farmers recognise that whatever lies
ahead will be best served with an assured consistency of top quality production. The price range for bulls was from €3,200 to €26,000.
Four bulls sold to Wales (all commercial farmers) and one to Northern Ireland.
Heifers, averaging just 21 months of age sold for an average price of €4577 with a price range from €3,100 to €6,100. Such was the strength and depth of the trade that the last heifer into the ring (not yet 11 months of age) sold for €5,000. Four heifers sold to Northern Ireland.
The Blakestown herd is based on exceptional females sourced almost exclusively from top French herds. Consequently famous cows like “Fatcha”, “Caroline”, “Sydney” and “Evaromey” are generously dispersed in the Blakestown pedigrees giving each of the animals on offer a large number of the top French qualification RR4 in their pedigrees. Easy calving and generous milk yields are achieved when these traits are deliberately selected for in successive generations. The entire sale offering was an excellent presentation of consistent cattle and it attracted a very large attendance.
The next Charolais sale is in Tullamore on Saturday 24th November.
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BLAKESTOWN BRION shown by Patrick McCabe Jnr. with purchaser Fintan Sullivan, and his young son Robert, Sulmur House, Tullyallen, Drogheda, Co. Louth and Antoinette Daly, GVM, Tullamore.
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Five of the bulls on offer at the Blakestown sale
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