INVITED vendors David, Helen and Benn Reid, Reids Charolais, Kingaroy made it a back-to-back sale topping performance after selling Reids Qantas Q54E for the $26,000 top money at the Ticoba bull sale in Munduberra on Friday.
Overall, 81 Simbrah, Simmental and Charolais bulls averaged $10,753.
That included 38 bulls from sale host Matt Kirk, Ticoba Station, Munduberra who averaged a solid $12,210, Vaughan Campagnolo and Sarah Truran, Savannah Simmentals and Simbrahs, Myponga, South Australia who averaged $8766 for 30 bulls and David and Helen Reid, Reids Charolais, Kingaroy who sold 13 bulls for a $11,076 average.
The $26,000 top selling Charolais bull, Reids Qantas Q54E, a polled red factor son of Reids Horatio with exceptional muscling and depth of body was bought by John Finger, Lake Lofty Pty Ltd, Meadowbrook, Dysart.
Wayne and Ingrid York, Karragarra Simmentals, Pangkarra, Emerald bid $24,000 to secure Ticoba 1390, a two-year-old red Simbrah bull from Matt Kirk, Ticoba Station, Munduberra.
Mr York described his new purchase as a sire with massive bone and volume, excellent softness of hide, structurally correct and had 'meat in all the right places'.
Sarah Truran, Savannah Cattle Company, South Australia, donated the sale proceeds of Savannah Q097, a homozygous polled red Simmental bull which attracted $15,000 from Grant Hood, Redcliff Pastoral, Blantyre Station, Praire to the MS Society in honour of her late father Gary Truran.
Tammie Robinson, AuctionsPlus, Toogoolawah was kept busy throughout the sale after buying 14 bulls for clients and bidding on another 47 lots with the platform receiving over 3500 views during the sale campaign.
Agents were Hourn and Bishop Qld, Moura, and AuctionsPlus.
- Full report in next week's Queensland Country Life.
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