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Whinchat Summer Sale
Tremendous trade at Whinchat
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sale with 42 over 3,000 guineas A beautiful sunny day in Leicestershire may have deterred some but with the substantial input from Marteye, accounting for nearly half the animals bought, the sale had 83 buyers from all parts of the UK.
82 will go to Ireland, North & South with decker loads to Wales and Scotland.
The on-farm event which was a reduction sale contained many of the breed’s best known cow families and top ranked sires with a depth of pedigree in many cases seldom seen in a sale catalogue.
It was a member of the Birkle family’s most coveted line – the Savoire Fares that claimed top price of 9,000 guineas for a two month old calf by Stantons Chief and bred from a unique 11 generations of Excellent dams that average 94 points. She was purchased by Messrs Wills Brothers for their Willsbro herd, Anthony Wills bidding from his Cornish fiefdom via Marteye.
The same thing happened with her close relative, also goin...