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Charolais
Record Breakers in new Welshpool Market
Three new
centre all breeds records set: 8,300gns top and £3,349.50 average for 50
bulls sold

The packed ringside watches the Champion Pedr
Dougal come under the hammer
Charolais set a brand new benchmark
at Welshpool new centre’s inaugural sale on Thursday 12 November where
centre breed records were smashed three times with a top 8,300gns call and
£3,349.50 average for 50 bulls traded at the breed society’s official autumn
show and sale.
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Dungannon Charolais peak at 5,600gns
Charolais bulls met
a strong trade peaking at 5,600gns in Dungannon on Friday 6 November at the
Northern Ireland Charolais Club’s official autumn show and sale.
Sale leader at 5,600gns
was the reserve champion, Brogher Domino, an 18 month old who was within the
breed’s top 10% with a TI +30 and SRI +35. A Doonally New son and out of a
homebred dam by Oldstone Egbert, Domino was bred and exhibited by Trevor
Phair, Enniskillen, Fermanagh and sold to Alex Ferguson, Aughnacloy, Tyrone.
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Charolais
establish new
Stirling
£5,687 record average
26,000gns top, 132 lots
traded

Blackford Dynamite the Overall Supreme and
Intermediate Champion sold for 16,000gns
Charolais bulls met a firm trade peaking at
26,000gns in Stirling on Wednesday, 23 October; 11 lots reached five
figures, while 132 lots traded to achieve a £5,687 record average for the
breed’s official autumn fixture as well as a first all beef breeds record
average for the new centre.
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Balmaud Charolais dispersal peaks at 10,000gns
Maerdy Amontillado TI +35, SRI +38, a four year old bull headed the trade at
10,000gns for
Wilson
and Gerardine Strachan when they dispersed their King Edward,
Banff
based Balmaud pedigree Charolais herd in
Stirling
on Wednesday 21 October.
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Carlisle Charolais sell to 5,500gns twice
Gretnahouse Drysky, Supreme Male Champion, sold for 5,000gns
Charolais bulls were in demand selling to 5,500gns twice in
Carlisle
on Friday 9 October at the breed society’s
rescheduled official autumn show and sale which also featured the annual consignment
of Cracker females
>>more Females meet solid trade peaking at 7,500gns Baggrave and Lincolnshire dispersals
Charolais females commanded a solid trade throughout selling to a top of 7,500gns at Newark Mart on Saturday 3 October when two East Midlands based herds were dispersed - Baggrave, owned by Baggrave Farms, Hungarton, Leicester and Messrs Wilson’s Lincolnshire herd, Irby on Humber, Grimsby.
“This fixture, one of the largest female Charolais sales for years, attracted a busy ringside with buyers being selective and prepared to bid good money for cattle accompanied by high Estimated Breeding Values and with quality calves at foot,” commented auctioneer, Paul Gentry of Newark Livestock Mart.
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