AMERICAN judge Dr Tom Turner didn’t pick her for a broadribbon, but Angus cow Banquet Kite A197 went on to prove a winner for exhibitors Banquet Angus when she was knocked down for $38,000 in the Angus sale at alst week’s Sydney Rotyal Show.
The equal record price for a female capped off a stellar Angus feature show where more than 280 stud and commercial exhibits were paraded.
Bidding started at $15,000 and quickly escalated for Banquet Kite A197 with a Banquet Xplanation X060 heifer calf at foot and pregnancy tested and in calf to Ardrossan Admiral A2 from Stephen and Noeleen Branson’s Mortlake stud.
By BT Right Time 24J and from the high performance Banquet Kite cow family, the three-in-one package represented a rare opportunity for buyers Stephen and Melissa Handbury of Anvil Angus, Acheron, who opted to sell back a half share in the cow to the vendors.
Banquet rarely offers females, however, five of the cow’s brothers have been sold for an average of $17,000 including a half brother, Dylemma Radar W42, for $40,000.
Junior bull, Mt Hunter Black Beard B20, from Simon and Judy Hennings, Camden, NSW, achieved the sale’s top bull price of $21,000, selling to John and Joan Woodruff, Witherswood Angus, Taminick.
Out of Mt Hunter Champagne W23, the supreme beef exhibit from this year’s Canberra Royal goes back to super sires, New Design 036 and GAR Precision on his paternal side and is +$77 and +$60 for Jap B3 and CAAB indexes.
The Woodruffs, who were impressed by the 18-month-old bull’s presence and style in the show ring, will use him over their Woody heifers and Millah Murrah daughters in December.
“He’s got it all,” Mr Woodruff said.
“He’s well boned and structurally correct with really good muscle mass, power and thickness.
“He holds his head up and looks like a true sire – a very proud bull that carries a lot of red meat,” Mrs Woodruff said.
The first lot through the ring, reserve senior champion, Black Label Direction A9, from Justin Bourchier’s Black Label stud, Deniliquin, NSW, was passed in at auction for $14,000 but later sold to a commercial operator from Goulburn, NSW.
The heaviest bull in the sale at 1298 kilograms, the Future Direction grandson has estimated breeding values of +38, +68 and +89 for 200-, 400- and 600-day weights, +3.8 for eye muscle area (EMA) and +1.6 for retail beef yield.
Mark and Sheryl Atkinson, Carrington Park, Drouin South, sold four bulls to $5500 for a fully imported embryo by Twin Valley Precision E161 to buyers, Rivenglen Pastoral, Uralla, NSW.
Bassano Angus, Byaduk and Gilmour Pastoral, Colac, combined to outlay $5500 for a SAF 598 Bando 5175 son from Outwest Angus, Coonamble, NSW, and another $5500 for the reserve junior champion, a Te Mania Xpo X84 son from Heavens Reach, Wollar, NSW.
Tindaroo Partnership, Nundle, NSW, emerged as the sale’s key volume bull buyer, paying to $5500 for eight bulls. In all, 26 of 32 bull lots averaged $5019. In the female catalogue, 13 of 16 averaged $5962, boosted greatly by the top priced lot.
The only other female to sell for more than the average price was DSK HLE Dandaloo A102 with heifer calf at foot and ptic, from DSK Knox, Coonabarabran, NSW, bought by Momo Estate, Medowie, NSW, for $6500. Momo Estate bought a further two heifers, one for $4000 from Garvin and Goldsack, Orange, NSW.
Elders conducted the sale with auctioneer Paul Dooley refereeing the bidding.