NORTHAMPTONSHIRE breeders P M & S M Donger of Seawell, Towcester, ruled the show ring at Melton Mowbray multibreed sale on Saturday, March 25.
Judge Jenny Hurst selected Seawell Rococo as her male champion before awarding him the overall championship title. Seawell Rococo was a Norbert sired bull out of Seawell Owena and was born in February 2021.
The reserve male champion and reserve overall champion came from the same home and by the same sire, Seawell Rodrigo out of Seawell Ossett, born in February 2021.
North Yorkshire breeder Terence Pye and his daughter Emma Denton of Rigel Pedigree, Yarm, won the female championship award with an in-calf heifer, Rigel Peacelily Poll, an April 2021 born Lascaux daughter out of Rigel Pertwee Poll, who was purchased for 1900gns by M McDermott, Iver, Buckinghamshire.
Rigel Pedigree also led the Salers trade with its only male exhibit, Rigel Ronnie Blk Poll, a homozygous polled Rigel Drambuie son out of a 15 year old productive cow, Rigel Pirrette Poll, by an outcross Canadian sire. He sold for 3600gns to H T Squires & Son, Ashley, Market Harborough.
Rigel Vignette Poll, an unhaltered pedigree female, also by Lascaux and in-calf to Rigel Pudsey Poll, led the female trade at 2000gns to pedigree breeders T J & L S Roberts, Onley Salers, Whitbourne, Worcestershire.
The best exhibit in the unhaltered pedigree section went to Rigel Oh My Poll, an April 2021 daughter of Lascaux who sold for 1900gns, again to M McDermott, Iver Buckinghamshire, who also added Rigel Verbena, another Lascaux daughter, to his herd for 1700gns.
The commercial section was won by Malcolm Light of Ashbury Salers, Okehampton, who sold out and topped his trade of 22-23 month old in-calf heifers, PD’d in-calf to Parkfield Regent at 1800gns. All went home to C H & M Hancock and Sons, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Overall, the Salers sold to a top price of 3600gns with a male average of £3780, an overall average of £1872.50 and a
100 per cent clearance in the female section.
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