Red Ladies peak at 10,000gns

A top price of 10,000gns and a £3612 average for 26 maiden heifers marked the Red Ladies Derby show and sale at Carlisle on Friday – but as always at this sale there were plenty of bidders keen to invest in the younger portion of weaned calves on offer which produced an average of £2315 for 38 heifer calves and a leading bid of 6000gns.

Heading the maiden heifers and taking the championship was Grahams Ethel from Robert and Jean Graham. By Millgate Clinker and out of Agate she was sold AI’d to Grahams Alexander and had stood second in her class to the champion at the breed’s 40^th Anniversary sale this year. She heads for Kelso with S Elliot.

Making a worthwhile trip all the way from Truro, Cornwall was R Withers who paid 9500gns for the reserve champion, Millington Faberge consigned by Millington Grange Estate. A winner at this year’s Lincoln Show she was also maiden heifer champion at the Carlisle fixture. Faberge is by Millington Vascular.

The Callion family’s Melbreak Fairylight – an ET-bred calf by Wilodge Vantastic and out of a Geant dam from the Lyvennet herd – won her class and made 9000gns to J B Browne, Longford, Eire.

G Lee and C Lloyd, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire paid 8800gns for Henry Savage and Sons’ Trueman Florence. She is half-sister to the champion at the breed’s Anniversary show – Trueman Euphonium. Florence is also by Wilodge Vantastic.

The seven-year-old imported cow Valentine from John McKeen – offered with her July-born heifer calf at foot by Haltcliffe Vermount – made 5000gns to C and N White, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos. She was AI’d in October to Attirant. Matching the bid was the maiden heifer Titchburn Flower from Donal Murray. She is by top producer Cloughhead Umpire and out of an Annandale cow by Lino. Buyers were J Tennant Ltd., Bridlington, East Yorkshire.

Mynach Foxy, a maiden heifer from E D Griffiths and Co made 4700gns to S E Field, Burnley, Lancashire. She is by Kype Bomber and out of a dam by Sable. The Mas Du Clo sired heifer Cresswell Fannieannie from Anthony Sayer sold for 4400gns to S Irvine, Banffshire while a 4300gns call from J Alexander, Co Antrim secured E and E Norman’s Heathmount Trojan sired Norman Flower.

Alun and Glenys Roberts offered the last consignment from their Hafodlas herd and topped the weaned calf section selling Hafodlas Glesni at 6000gns to C Edwards, Anglesey. This March-born calf is by Hafodlas Domino and out of a Saphire cow.

Whinfellpark Gateaux – a January-born heifer by Wilodge Cerberus from Messrs Jenkinson – heads for Newcastle, Staffs with P Walker at 5500gns. Exeter buyers M and V Smith also gave 5500gns for Hafodlas Gwen – a daughter of the 16,000gns Anside Diageo.

Bound for County Derry with buyer D McMullan at 5200gns was R Cruickshank’s Kype Gorgeous – a February calf by Jodel Clayton. Hafodlas Gwenda – by Domino – made 5000gns to W and M Mash, Chesham, Bucks.

Averages: 2 Served heifers £7350; 26 maiden heifers £3612; one cow and calf £5250. Weaned calves – 14 bull calves £1785 and 36 heifer calves £2315. (Harrison and Hetherington).