SPECKLE PARK breed records were broken last Friday when a syndicate of Victorian and NSW breeders paid $35,000 for one of the first Six Star Royal Flesh sons to be offered in Australia.
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Minnamurra Leander L81 (ET) was one of 51 bulls sold on the day to average $11,400 at the Minnamurra Speckle Park bull sale at “Mount Mill”, Coolah, on Friday.
Leander is to be shared among Wayne Munt, Gunrowring, Victoria, which is starting up a second stud while also a partner in Snowline Special Park stud; Mick Malone and Max Whitby, Kitchwin Hills, Scone; Paul Guy, Te Mooi stud, Benalla, Vic; and John Ellis, Hanging Rock stud, Hanging Rock, Vic, and semen sales will go global as well as within Australia.
Second top price at $24,000 was a son of Six Star Anchor E229, Minnamurra Luther L94, purchased by the Doak family, “Drogheda”, Bundarra.
The James family, Cooranga, South Australia, paid up to $20,000 among three purchases averaging $16,667.
First-time buyers who decided recently to change to the breed, Graeme and Catherine Crozier, Karpa Kora Station, Pooncaarie, bid up to $10,000 twice when securing four bulls for a $8750 average all to be joined to the large Angus herd females.
Fifty F1 heifers out of some of Te Mania blood Angus commercial cows at Minnamurra topped at $2000 and averaged $1880.