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Melton Mowbray sees 5,500gns top
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eef Shorthorn entries peaked at 5,500gns at Melton Mowbray in March. Sale leader was the day’s champion, Hanley Parker a rising two-year old dark roan bull from Daniel Bown, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. This Glenisla Zetor son is out of a Chapelton Covenantor daughter and sold to Boulton Bros, Northampton. The female trade was led at 2,100gns by Meonhill Flossy Viola a 23-month-old old roan by the 11,000gns Coldrochie Kensington and out of another Covenantorsired dam. Bred by LEP Farms, Waterlooville, Hampshire, she went to A J and C H Wright, Nottinghamshire.
Daniel Bown’s Hanley Parker topped trade at Melton Mowbray at 5500gns, selling to Boulton Brox, Northampton.
The same vendors then took 2,000gns for Meonhill Blythsome Jazz, a two-year old red and white heifer by Trunley Timber. She went home with A S Labram, Lutterworth. Averages: three bulls £4,165, two heifers £2,152 (Melton Mowbray Market).
e Tollesbury Herd ThBred for Quality and Temperament
Quality Beef Shorthorns grazing alongside the Blackwater estuary on the Essex coast Mature cow classification average 88
Stock Bull: JEHU of UPSALL High Health, TB4, Farm Assured
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