This year's RAS Sydney Angus sale has a powerhouse of top Angus genetics on offer from both new and long-standing vendors of the sale.
Last year’s top-priced heifer at the RAS Sydney Angus sale, KO Dream L22, was sold by K.O. Angus stud, Kangaloon, selling for $14,000 to Dunoon Angus, Holbrook.
K.O Angus, one of the long-standing vendors of the sale, will be selling as part of their RAS Sydney sale offering, as an embryo package, a flush of full siblings to KO Dream LSS, KO Dream J 45.
J45 is a maternal sister to the current $48,000 Australian record price cow and is proving herself as one of K.O Angus’ best breeding Dream Y301 daughters.
All up, K.O Angus stud will be offering three embryo packages along with four heifers including KO Dream M40 (ET), a maternal sister to last year’s $14,000 top-priced female.
Another long-standing vendor of the RAS Sydney Angus sale, Chris Garvan of Trowbridge BBB, Orange, who sold the top cow and calf unit at last year’s sale to Chris and Bronwyn Halliday, J and C Angus, Wildes Meadow, for $10,000 as well as a $15,000 securing bid on its reserve champion bull Trowbridge BBB Israel Folau K59, from Indian Creek stud, Tumut, will be offering one bull and two female lots.
The April 2015-drop bull, Trowbridge BBB Powertool L11 (ET), who is out of the same cow, Trowbridge B491, that produced the Trowbridge BBB Israel Folau K59 2016 reserve champion bull. Powertool was scanned at 21-months and weighed 975 kilograms with a 120 centimetre EMA.
Another of the long-standing vendors, Corey and Prue Ireland of Irelands Angus, Wagga Wagga, will be offering four heifers including Irelands Rosebud L123 (AI) ET), a sister to proven sire Granite Ridge Thomas.
Dalwhinnie stud, Orange, will offer two bulls including Dalwhinnie Logic L43 (AI) by Millah Murrah Hercules and out of the cow that produced the $20,000 second highest priced bull from last year’s sale, Dalwhinnie Karate Kid K22. The second bull, Dalwinnie Limitless L46 (AI) is out Donor Prue E3, reserve champion at the Sydney Royal in 2011.