PRESS RELEASE
Lincoln Red Cattle Society Spring Show & Sale
Saturday 20th March 2010 held at Newark Livestock Market
15 Bulls – Averaged £3340 (£3037 in 2009)
58 Females Averaged – £1516 (£1569 in 2009)
10,000gn Lincoln Bull sets new record
A new breed record price of 10,000gns was set at the Lincoln Red Cattle Society’s Spring Show and Sale at Newark Livestock Auctions on Saturday 20th March 2010. Walmer Legend, a two-year old bred by H M & J M Needler of Ranby Grange, Lincoln, which took the Senior Champion and Supreme Champion Bull awards at the Show, was bought by Michael Read, from Hemingby, near Horncastle.
The bull was sired by Beverley Henchman out of Mr Needler’s cow Walmer Lobelia. The dam has won seven Breed Championships, and was also Native Female Interbreed Champion at the 2009 Royal Norfolk Show. Mr Read commented that he had been impressed with the breeding of the bull on both sides of its parentage, but that the female line had particularly caught his attention. “It is out of an absolutely wonderful cow, coming from a very fine female line with all the good mothering attributes that I expect from Lincoln Reds”, he explained. “I anticipate that it will have a very good influence on my own herd.”
15 bulls sold at the event, with Reserve Champion Senior Bull Auchmacoy Langley, from Mrs S Buchan’s Auchmacoy Herd at Elgin in Aberdeenshire going to Mr D P Inman of Thorpe Satchville, Melton Mowbray for 4,500gns. Robert Needham’s Market Stainton Lancelot sold for 5,500gns and Mr Read’s own Junior Champion and Reserve Supreme Champion Bull; Hemingby Dragoon made 3,600gns. Overall average for the bulls was 3,180gns.
On the female side, the top price was 2,100 gns paid by Mr I R Houlgrave of Legbourne for the Maiden Heifer Lindum Latoya sold by Mr D P Inman. The Female Champion at the Show, Michael Read’s In-calf Heifer Hemingby Bridget sold to Mr J E Thomas, from the Vale of Glamorgan, for 1,800gns. R I Clough & Son’s cow Beverley Ella, with her first calf at foot, was bought by Mr A I Davison, of Alnwick, Northumberland, for 2050gns.
The average for cows with calves at foot, was 1,617gns; in-calf cows averaged 1,350gns: in-calf heifers made an average of 1,553 and 50 maiden heifers sold to an average of 1,433gns. Overall average for the females was 1445gns.
Lincoln Red Cattle Society President Robin Dennett commented that it was good to see the number of buyers coming forward from outside the breed’s traditional County to add to the continuing growth of interest from local breeders. “It was a very good sale with prices that will have encouraged Lincoln Red Breeders,” he said. “We saw new members joining the Society as well as existing owners keen to add to their herds.”
The next Lincoln Red Cattle Society Autumn Show and Sale is on Saturday 23rd October 2010 at the Newark Livestock Market. Thank you to all who supported the 2010 Spring Show and Sale and to our Auctioneers at Newark.
