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BULLOCK HILLS $9000
❐ SIMMENTAL
The Simmental breed got
the sale underway and
recorded one of the better
results for the sale.
The Bullock Hills and
Topweight studs combined to
offer 18 bulls with 16 bulls
(89pc clearance) selling under
the hammer to average $4859
and a top price of $9000 paid
for a Bullock Hills bull.
The clearance and the
number of bulls sold were up
but the average fell $372
compared to last year’s sale
where 13 of 16 bulls (81pc
clearance) sold at auction to
average $5231.
Coming off their best sale
ever last year, the Patterson
family’s Bullock Hills stud,
Woodanilling, had another
strong sale with 13 of their 14
bulls selling under the
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Stud
(Under the hammer results)
offered sold
top
gross average
Simmental
Bullock Hills
Topweight
Total
14
4
18
13
3
16
Hereford
Yallaroo
Greenland
Copplestone
Total
6
2
4
12
5 $14,000
2
$3500(2)
4
$5000(2)
11 $14,000
Angus
Carenda
Yoothamurra
Total
12
2
14
5
5
Red Angus
Kingslane
5
2
20
2
1
23
12
2
2
2
1
4
5
1
2
3
1
3
1
-
Charolais
Copplestone
Blaweary
Sinagra
Total
Murray Grey
Mighty
Blonde d’Aquitaine
Uranongo
Bolin
Corolin
Superior
Weeronga
Kingsfield
Total
Overall Total
16
90
$9000
$5500
$9000
$64,250
$13,500
$77,750
$4942
$4500
$4859
$30,750
$7000
$17,000
$54,750
$6150
$3500
$4250
$4977
$6000
$6000
$24,250
$24,250
$4850
$4850
$3250
$6250
$3125
$58,500
$11,750
$5000
$75,250
$4875
$5875
$5000
$5017
$4500
$8750
$4375
$3500
$6750
$3000
-
$3500
$12,750
$3000
-
$3500
$4250
$3000
-
5
$6750
56 $14,000
$19,250
$266,250
$3850
$4754
1
15
$6500(2)
$7000
$5000
$7000
hammer to average $4952
with their overlooked bull
selling afterwards.
The stud’s average was down
by $513 compared to last year’s
sale where 11 of 13 bulls
averaged $5231 but this figure
did take into account last year’s
$17,750 top-priced bull.
The stud’s $9000 top-priced
bull, Bullock Hills Hammer
H26, didn’t set foot into the
ring until lot six and generated
plenty of interest before
becoming a two-way tussle
between Dunsborough graziers
JT O’Byrne and Eastern States
buyers Peter and Odette
Morley, Boomey Park, Molong
via Orange, New South Wales.
With bidding starting at
$4000, the O’Byrne family
agreed to the $9000 final bid on
the late June, 2012 drop son of
Rosemont Park Durban and
Bullock Hills Charisma.
The 908kg bull recorded
above average BreedPlan data
across most of its recorded
traits and was described as a
moderate-framed, docile and
great carcase bull.
Despite missing out on the
top-priced bull, the Morley
family bid actively throughout
the Simmental catalogue and
went on to purchase four
Bullock Hills bulls and two
Topweight bulls and be the
sale’s prominent volume buyer
outlaying from $3000 to $5500
❐ The
Patterson
family's
Bullock Hills
Simmental
stud,
Woodanilling,
sold this bull,
Bullock Hills
Hammer (P)
H26, to JT
O'Byrne,
Dunsborough,
for the $9000
top Simmental
bull price and
overall second
top-price at the
Farm Weekly
WA Supreme
Bull Sale last
week.
for their selections.
The Morley family run a
commercial herd of 900
Simmental-Hereford breeders
and are in the process of
building the Simmental
percentage of the herd.
Peter Morley said they
wanted to get a different
Simmental bloodline and were
now taking nine WA bulls
home after also purchasing
three at the Willandra bull sale.
“We like the style of the WA
Simmentals and the WA
breeders have a good reputation
in the east,” Mr Morley said.
“We produce vealers and
steers so we were chasing good
milk traits and also polled
cattle.”
Other stronger sales in the
Bullock Hills team included the
Black Simmental bull, Bullock
Hills Harness H621, which sold
to Jock Embry, Landmark
Margaret River, representing TJ
& MB Waugh, Manjimup, for
$6500.
The 872kg early March,
2012-drop bull was an ET calf
of Triple C Bettis S72J and
Bonnydale Georgia and a full
brother to the Bonnydale bull
that sold for the $14,000 equal
record top-priced bull to date
for this selling season.
The low birthweight bull (top
10pc) featured in the breed’s
top one per cent for eye muscle
area (EMA) and retail beef
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yield (RBY).
F Pessotto & Son,
Manjimup, was one bid earlier
at $6250 which paid for
Bullock Hills Hectare H30, a
945kg polled late May 2012drop son of homebred sire
Cougar.
The Weightman family’s
Topweight stud, Margaret
River, sold three of four bulls at
auction to average $4500 which
was a big improvement on last
year’s sale where the stud
cleared one of two bulls for
$3000.
The Morley family included
two Topweight bulls for $5500
and $5000 in their team of six
Simmental bulls to head east.
The $5500 Topweight
Handiman H83, sired by
Willandra Excalibur, was above
breed average for growth traits,
weighed 836kg and scanned
8mm rib and rump fats, 123cm2
EMA and 3.1 IMF.
❐ HEREFORD
The Hereford and Poll
Herefords topped the British
Breed average stakes when 11
of 12 bulls from three stud’s
sold at auction to average
$4977, up $477 compared to
last year’s sale where 12 of 17
bulls (71pc clearance) sold to
average $4500.
The Yallaroo stud followed
up from the stud’s best ever
sale result last year with
another stand-out performance.
In addition to the sale’s
$14,000 top price, the Yallaroo
stud posted the sale’s $6150 top
average with the five of six
bulls to sell under the hammer,
up $100 from last year where
they sold all five bulls to
$10,000 and average $6050.
Long-time Yallaroo clients
JM & H Della Gola,
Northcliffe, purchased two
bulls at the sale and paid to
$6000 for Yallaroo Highland
H35.
The 821kg Highland was
sired by homebred bull
Aquarius A46 and scanned
94cm2 EMA, 7mm rib fat,
11mm rump fat and 5.7 IMF
and was above breed average
for all growth traits.
The Moulten family’s
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BLAWEARY $7000
❐ Buyers Kerrie (left) and Kim Dunnet, OM Dunnet & Co, Nannup, Elders Bunbury branch manager Simon
Wilkinson and Blaweary Charolais stud principal Andrew Cunningham, Elgin, with the $7000 top-priced
Charolais bull at the Farm Weekly WA Supreme Bull Sale last week.
BELINI $6750
❐ With the $6750 top-priced Blonde d'Aquitaine bull sold by the Belini stud, Dardanup, at the Farm
Weekly WA Supreme Bull Sale last week were Belini stud connections Carla Minson (left) and Tom and Lil
Garbelini and buyers Narelle and Pauline Bunker, Pardee Blonde d'Aquitaine stud, Kendenup.
Greenland Poll Hereford stud,
Pemberton, cleared their two
bulls for $3500 each, similar to
last year’s results where they
sold two of three bulls for the
same average.
Both the Greenland bulls
were sired by the Canadian AI
sire Remitall Boomer and
purchased by Brett Chatley,
Landmark Manjimup, on behalf
of VA & AJ Blechynden,
Manjimup.
The House family’s
Copplestone Poll Hereford
stud, Dardanup, posted
improved results from last year
with a complete clearance of
their four bulls to average
$4250 which was up by $1250
compared to last year’s sale
where three of five bulls sold
for $3000 each.
Yandilla Grazing,
Manypeaks, paid the stud’s
$5000 top price on two
occasions which included a son
of Copplestone Enough with
EBVs in the breeds top two per
cent for EMA, top six per cent
scrotal circumference and RBY
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