AUSTRALIAN Livestock & Property Agents association past national champion, and Rodwells auctioneer Anthony Delaney turned his hand to another form of livestock recently.
He was invited to be the auctioneer at Australia's premier Bloomfield Farm Warmblood stud horse sale at Crossover, north of Warragul.
Bloomfield stud proprietors Axel Renz and Kerrie Mann held a physical sale this year, after an internet auction in 2012.
Bloomfield Farm has imported several high quality stallions from Germany over the past few years, and has had great success with Royal Hit, Furst Love and San Rubin II.
A parade of their current stallions at stud – Fiderstern, Furst Love, and new import Versace – was held at 11:30am followed by a parade of the sale lots. The sale included foals at foot, weanlings, yearlings and two-year-olds, with the odd mare.
A crowd estimated at more than 400 people watched and bid for a quality line-up of horses.
The sale top of $33,000 was paid for Furstin Lady, sold to to an undisclosed Victorian buyer by phone.
The quality of horses bred by Bloomfield Farm saw buyers travel from as far as New Zealand, Tasmania and other States of Australia, and three horses headed back to NZ, including, Fursteniro, a black colt which sold for $27,500.
