A packed ringside of buyers was treated to a breed spectacle as more than 90 animals strutted down a catwalk with flashing lights and a smoke machine kicking off at the all-new Perfection Collection sale with an £4,600 average. The event was the brainchild of young breeders Richard Bostock, James Doherty and Tom Lomas, who said the sale would be something “never seen before” in the UK – and it didn’t disappoint. The highest seller was Tynevalley Rubi A Bambi was £21,500. Bidding went crazy for this 15 week old Holstein calf. This January 2018-born Mr Rubi Agronaut heifer boasts a massive PLI of £737 – fifth highest in the world and the second highest ever to sell. Her dam is Tynevalley Supershot Bambi who sold for €23,000 in the German Masters sale, who is descendant of Gen-I-Beq Shottle Bombi. Buyer was Messrs Robertson, Ashlea Farm, Bristol.
Second top was Red & White show-cow Riverdane Aikman Ghost Red VG89-3yr at £17,000. From Mark Nutsford, Cheshire,this four-year-old is by Gen-I-Beq Aikman and is out of Riverdane Roses Ghost Red VG85. She is currently giving 45.8kg daily at 4.59% fat and 3.25% protein and sold in calf to Woodcrest King Doc. Buyer was NJ and LC Sercombe, Lutterworth.
Just shy of this and selling in absence to a South African bidder Martin Voight for 16,000gns was the highly anticipated January 2018-born heifer calf Bel Bag2 Capi-Margot (Lot 44) from Bel Holsteins, Italy. Sired by Oh-River-SYC Byway, her dam is Du Bont Vent Inkapi Ex90, who won intermediate champion at Swiss Expo and Cremona in 2016.
Making 11,000gns and selling to Peter Prior of Designer Holsteins, Essex, was VeTech Atwood Elegance 2 (Lot 26) from VeTech Holsteins, Strandhead. She is sired by Atwood and is believed to be the only animal in the world bred from three generations of dams classified Ex96.
