Strong Demand at Blue Ribbon Sale
With 54 registered buyers there was strong demand for both bulls and females at the Blue Ribbon Invitation Sale at Toowoomba Showgrounds with bulls topping at $11,500 and females at $8,000
The top priced female was Paul and Kelli Forman’s Oakwood Bambi a polled French Pure heifer by Denison Polled Lance which sold to junior member, Ben Passmore, Benjarra Limousins, Clifton, Qld.
Ben Passmore also paid $6,000 for Oakwood Jayla, a black and polled TMK Kodiak daughter which had been AI’d to Graneta Caesar. Paul and Kelli Forman sold Oakwood Prada, a polled apricot ROMN Justice daughter to G Hargreaves, Millmeran at $3,750 to top off an excellent sale of six females for an average of $3,708
Kandu Billy Jean, an apricot Goldenview Kruggerand daughter, close to calving, offered by Greg and Chris Bell sold at $5,000 to Trevor and Debbie Stephens, Greenslopes Limousins, Pittsworth, Qld. Kandu Bewitched, a French pure Junior daughter, close to calving, to Megan and Jason Livingston Ballycasheen Limousins, Maidenwell, Qld. The Bells sold three females for an average of $3,500.
Trevor and Debbie Stephens sold two heifers at $3,250. The first, Greenslopes Dancing Queen, was a French Pure, Refstrup Tabias daughter which sold to B & R Yarrow Family Trust, Norwin, Qld. The second, Greenslopes Dolly was a black and polled daughter of Greenslopes Bob The Builder sold to Tony and Barbara Hollis, Pinkett, via Glen Innes, NSW.
Robyn Nobbs sold a horned, apricot cow, Ro-Maree Annabel, with a July bull calf at foot and depastured with Ro-Maree Dalby which sold to Camp Riehl, Pittsworth, Qld, for $3,000.
The top priced bull was Graneta Caesar, a black and polled, Kensal Yeppoon son which sold to Jeff and Kerry Etheridge, Red Rock Limousins, Ebor, NSW and Matt and Jenny Friend, Froghollow Limousins, Black Mountain, NSW at $11,500.
Greenslopes Dark and Stormy, a black and polled DJ Gentleman in Black son sold at $7,500 to Samantha Fletcher, Bluff View Limousins, Tenterfield NSW and Oakwood D104 a black and polled TMF Kodiak son went to the Australian Agricultural College, Dalby Campus for $6,000. The three bulls averaged $8,333.
Four embryos by Kensal Yeppoon from Kensal Black Pearl A70 offered by the Gunnadoo Partnership sold to Peter Gaffney for $750 each.
There was a complete clearance of the seven Limousin steers topping at $2,000 for a four month old Limousin steer calf offered by Trevor and Debbie Stephens and sold to steer specialists Bob & Elaine Dull who paid $1550 for the top priced steer in 2008. That steer went on to become a very successful show steer in 2009 and won $500 cash for the steer bought from the sale last years Blue Ribbon Sale which won the most Championships.
In the wash up three cows and calves averaged $3,167, 10 joined heifers averaged $3,575, 24 unjoined heifers averaged $1,558, three bulls averaged $8,333 and 11 steers averaged $873 in a sale which grossed $120,250.
Buyers of the top priced bull Graneta Caesar, Jeff Etheridge and Matt Friend.
The bull is held by vendor Leny Gaffney.
Photo courtesy Queensland Country Life.
