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South Devons peak at 10,000gns at Exeter

Averages were up at the show and sale of South Devon cattle at Exeter where trade peaked at 10,000gns

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Tregondale Invincible 6
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Tregondale Invincible 6

The sale topper was the heterozygous polled bull, Tregondale Invincible 6 by Polkinghorne Indianna 2 (PP) from Mervyn and Richard Rowe, Menheniot, Cornwall. The buyer was R.G. Elliott and Son, Willoughby, Warwickshire.

Three bulls sold for 7,000gns apiece with two from Peter and Ashley Rowe, Menheniot, which also won the best pair of males award. They were the pre-sale show champion, March 2022-born Trewint Captain by Trewint Carlos, which sold to B. Kingham, Aldbourne, Wiltshire, and Trewint Simpson which was knocked down to Dunstall Estate, Burton on Trent.

Trewint Captain
Trewint Captain

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Trewint Simpson
Trewint Simpson


The other bull at 7,000gns was Colcharton Clyde 7 (HP) from Colcharton Farm Partners, Tavistock, which went to the Tully Partnership, Brixham.

Colcharton Clyde
Colcharton Clyde

Next at 6,200gns was Knowlhill Patrick from A.E.J. and F.J. Claridge, Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, which sold to R.J.M. Osborne and Sons, North Bovey.

Mervyn and Richard Rowe's Tregondale Invincible 8 (HP) headed to Haversham, Buckinghamshire, for Andrew and Rachel Paton's Swansway herd at 6,000gns

The reserve male champion and best polled bull, Broompark Elsworth Lad (HP) from John Throssell and Jmes Warwick, Holdsworthy, sold for 5,800gns to T. Bastard, Launceston.

Broompark Elsworth Lad
Broompark Elsworth Lad

A consignment of three Waddeton bulling heifers from The Tully Partnership sold, firstly for 2,700gns to A.V. and N. Lee, Crediton, and then two each for 2,500gns to the Benacre Estate, Beccles, Suffolk, which also bought a third heifer from G. W. J. and L. F. Pluess Bude, for 2,500gns.

Averages: 23 bulls, £5,131 (+£476 on 2023); Ìý4 heifers, £2,678 (+661).

Auctioneers – Kivells.

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