Sunshine and smiles for Balmyle Sandy in Balmoral
Sunshine and smiles for Balmyle Sandy in Balmoral 2023-05-17
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Sunshine and smiles for Balmyle Sandy in Balmoral 2023-05-17
Background? I grew up on a farm in Millbrook, Oldcastle, Co Meath, and was the second eldest of six children. My father bred Hereford and Simmental cattle along with suckler cows on the farm. I left school at 15 to help out on the farm with the intention of going to agricultural college when my older brother, John, finished school and was going to stay home for a year. Unfortunately, John got leukaemia before this happened and died at the age of 19. It was a tough time for all the family, especially my parents. What got you into breeding Limousins? A very good friend of my father,...
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A Limousin heifer, Wilodge Poshspice, sold for a record 250,000gns at a sale in Carlisle recently. Wilodge Poshspice smashed the Limousin World Record at 250,000gns when she was bought in partnership by two renowned herds, Messrs Jenkinson, Whinfellpark herd in Penrith and Boden and Davies, Sportsmans herd in Stockport. This November 2019 born embryo heifer, was bred out of Millbrook Gingerspice, who won Supreme Champion at the Balmoral Show three times in a row. Dam Gingerspice goes back to both Wilodge Vantasic and Tonka. The sale at Borderway Mart, Carlisle was a major reduction sale fr...
World beater: New World Record priced heifer A NEW world record price of 250,000gns has been paid for a Limousin heifer at a joint herd sale at Carlisle. The November-2019 born Wilodge Poshspice, from Shropshire breeders Christine Williams and Paul Tippetts, smashed the previous record for 125,000gn when she sold at Harrison and Hetherington’s Borderway Mart in Carlisle. Doubling the previous record of 125,000gns paid for Glenrock Illusion at the Illingworth's Glenrock dispersal in 2014 at Carlisle, Poshspice sold in a two-way split to Messrs Jenkinson, buying for the Whinfellpark her...