This magnificent young bull set a New Zealand record sale price of $156,000 at the Cricklewood Angus sale on Sunday afternoon as part of the East Coast Angus Bull Week sales. The record lasted a day.
This magnificent young bull set a New Zealand record sale price of $156,000 at the Cricklewood Angus sale on Sunday afternoon as part of the East Coast Angus Bull Week sales. The record lasted a day.
History was made twice in the space of 24 hours at different Angus studs as the Zealand all-breed, all-time record price for a bull was broken, then shattered.
The records electrified East Coast Angus Bull Week at rising 2-year-old (R2) bull sales held at Cricklewood Angus in Nūhaka on Sunday,then Tangihau Angus near Rere on Monday.
Cricklewood got the ball rolling on Sunday when Lot 2 sold for $156,000, breaking the New Zealand record for all bull breeds of $155,000 set 33 years ago.
The new record did not last long. Tangihau Angus bettered it the next day when it sold Lot 16 for $161,000.
Ratanui Angus at Tuai began the sales week on Sunday with a total clearance of 38 R2 bulls auctioned on farm.
The Story family-owned Ratanui realised a sale high of $31,000 for a bull sold to Cricklewood and a second-highest of $21,000, bought by Glengyle Angus of Dannevirke.
Ratanui’s average for the sale was $14,684.
Ratanui at Tuai kicked of East Coast Angus Bull Week with yet another total clearance this sales season across the various breeds. Photo / Emma Pollitt
“[It was] standing room only in their newly built sale rostrum,” PGG Wrightson genetics representative Emma Pollitt said.
“We saw a strong line-up of consistent bulls and the sale kept pace right to the last.”
Later that afternoon, Cricklewood put up its line-up in another on-farm auction and the results were stunning.
The Nūhaka stud put up 14 rising-two-year-olds and sold the lot, with Lot 2 reaching stellar heights.
“The Lot 2 auction was spectacular with the bull won by the Puke- Nui Stud (owned by the Donaldson family) from Taumarunui,” Pollit said.
“The price paid was a new all-time highest price for a bull in New Zealand, surpassing Atahua Legacy bought by Kaharau and Rangatira studs in 1992 for $155,000.”
The price for Lot 2 at Cricklewood Angus's on-farm sale rocketed up to a record mark and, along with the Ratanui sale before it, set the tone for a highly successful Angus Bull Week. Photo / Emma Pollitt
Lot 11 in the sale went for $25,000 to Elgin Stud from Hawke’s Bay.
Cricklewood’s average was $24,357.
“They had a big bench of buyers from all over the country,” Pollitt said. “It was a fantastic display of Cricklewood cattle in their 90th year of breeding black bulls ... an accumulation of now four generations of Bayly family commitment and diligence in breeding the types of bulls.
“It was a stunning display of confidence not only in the prefix, but also our beef industry.”
Orere Angus at Rere hosted its sale on Monday morning.
