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2004 |
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January - Solpoll 1 Vindicator - Champion selling for 2,100gns. Solpoll 1 Valentine - Top Price of the day at 3,000gns. April - Solpoll 1 Warrior - Reserve Champion |
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2005 |
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January - Solpoll 1 Watchman - Champion & Top Price selling for 2,300gns to Des Kelly, Mullin & Lurgacullion Herefords. Solpoll 1 Whirlwind - Reserve Champion selling for 1,700gns. Solpoll 1 Warpaint - 3rd in class behind Watchman & Whirlwind selling for 1,750gns to George Logan, Ballynalough Herefords.
April - Solpoll 1 Starlet W10 - Female Champion sold to David Smyth.
September - Solpoll 1 Brigadier - Sold privately at nine months old to JM Cant & Partners, Panmure Herd. Udel 1 R51 Vindicator’s full sister sells for €5200 aged nine months in the Udel Production Sale. Solpoll 1 Starlet A7 - Female Champion & Top Price Autumn Sale. Solpoll 1 Stella A8 - Second Top Price Autumn Sale; selling with ‘A7’ to Victor Steele to found his Moypoll herd and has since purchased a number of other females along with a stock bull from the herd.
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‘Cruiser’ was the Champion at the 2007 January Sale and went on to top the sale setting a new N.I. record price of 3,800gns. Cruiser was the first son of Udel 1 R51 Vindicator and was aged sixteen months. He qualified as a BQI Superior bull and was in the top 10% for Eye Muscle Area & Retail Beef Yield and top 15% for Calving ease, Birth weight & Fat. His dam ‘Starlet V9’ was full sister to a bull sold for £3250. ‘V9’ was sired by the First National Calf Show Champion Dendor 1 Sinner. |
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‘Crusader’ was the Champion at 2007 April Sale and sold for the Top Price at 2,000gns. He is in the top 10% for Growth and Terminal index and measured in at frame 8.5. Sired by Udel 1 R51 Vindicator and out of arguably our best cow ‘Starlet N25’ (Full details on Females page). |
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Both bulls are sired by Udel 1 R51 Vindicator whose progeny have topped the three sales where they have been present in 2007. ‘Comet’ was Reserve Champion at the April Sale 2007. His dam ‘Dainty U16’ is a daughter of ‘Dainty N11’ the Reserve Female of the Year 1997. Comet’s full sister ‘Dainty D1’ had a successful show season (Show Success) ‘Courageous’ was Reserve Champion at the October Sale 2007 and sold for the top price. His dam is ‘Starlet A6’ the Reserve Poll Female of the Year and one half of the Pair of the Year 2005. She is sired by Solpoll 1 Ultimate who needs no introduction. |
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PREVIOUS SALE HIGHLIGHTS |
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2006 |
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January - Solpoll 1 Aristocrat was purchased at the January sale where he was the heaviest bull in the yard weighing in at 1010kg by Gerald Blandford to join his renowned Bosa herd in Herefordshire. Solpoll 1 Arthur Reserve Champion at the Sale. Solpoll 1 Action Man a frame score 8.5 bull sold in the Sale to Breezepoll Herefords. Solpoll 1 Boomerang purchased privately at fourteen months old by Bosa Herefords.
March - Solpoll 1 Bronco Sold privately to C & M Beatty and Son to join their Castlepoll herd after impressing at the National show the previous summer where he was Calf Champion and featured in the first place pair & group.
April - Solpoll 1 Andre Male Champion April Sale and went on to make the joint top price in the sale and was purchased by Candleford Herefords. Solpoll 1 Anchor was placed next to ‘Andre’ in his class and collected the Reserve Male Championship. Solpoll 1 Starlet A10 Female Champion April Sale.
October - Solpoll 1 Bonanza sold privately to join Fraser Sangster’s FS Herd in Scotland. He weighed an impressive weight of 830kgs at 17 months while running in a group at grass. Castlepoll 1 Superstar Supreme Champion at the Irish Hereford Breed Society Premier Show and Sale in Roscommon Mart. This was the first ‘Ultimate’ son offered at the I.H.S. Sales and is believed to be the first bull bred and shown by a UK breeder to win the award. |
