LANCEFIELD Brahmans returned to the Gracemere Saleyards selling ring after a year’s absence and were rewarded with strong buying support for reds and greys.
The sale was conducted as an invitation sale combining the Lancefield and Lancefield M Studs of Sale Principals Scott and Lizette McCamley and Matthew and Janelle McCamley, with the Palmal and 2AM Studs of Invited Vendors David and Julie McCamley and Andrew and Anna McCamley respectively.
A total of 112 bulls were sold at the auction, a 93 per cent clearance rate, for an average of $6,480. In a split-up of the sections, 102 Registered Sires averaged $6,795, while 10 Herd Bulls averaged $3,250.
After officially opening the sale on the occasion of Lancefield’s 40th Anniversary of their first auction offering of Brahmans, Rodger Jefferis and his wife Lorena then participated in the bidding and secured the sale topper 2AM Trinity for $38,000. Trinity, a 25 month old, 808kg grey sire, showed excellent length and muscling and is a son of the polled sire Lancefield A Titon. 10 lots later Elrose bid $26,000 for the 2yo Lancefield M Brazier, another quality, long bodied grey bull with strong carcass features and sire style.
$35,000 topped the red sire section and it was the impressively credentialed Lancefield M Rhinestone, a son of JDH Sir Reno Manso that took the honours. Scaling 835kg at 25 months and scanning a massive 145 sqcm EMA, the biggest for a milk tooth bull in the sale, this strong sire character bull took the eye of a number of Studmasters before being knocked down to the Radel Family of Kandoona Brahman Stud, Injune.
Early in the sale the JDH Mr Echo Manso son, Palmal Emmerson attracted strong bidding competition making $32,000 and selling to the 2AM Stud of Andrew and Anna McCamley. He is a 920kg milk tooth bull of 144 sqcm EMA. Four Echo sons in the sale averaged $14,875 and progeny of a number of Echo sons through the catalogue also sold well.
The exceptional raw data weight for age and carcass scan figures of the offering highlighted the outstanding genetic values of the sale line, and the sale’s comprehensive listing of damline breeding history was also popular, and utilised by sale buyers in making their selections.
Brett and Susan Kirk, Hazelton Brahmans and David and Joy Deguara, Hamdenvale Brahmans went in partnership to purchase Lancefield M Hackett at $24,000. This 780kg, correct, strong beef type sire recorded a 95pc semen motility. Roger Landsberg, Trafalgar Pastoral Company, Charters Towers was at the sale and invested in five sires: three greys and two reds. His top purchase at $20,000 was the red scurred bull Lancefield M Buttsworth. This rising 2yo is a son of Lancefield D Bazuka, a poll sire producing well in the Stud. Buttsworth weighed 785kg, is of excellent red colour and shows desirable carcass qualities.
Viva Brahmans Studmasters AJ and Pam Davison of Middlemount selected the strong, masculine, JDH Mr Echo Manso son Palmal Excalabur and bid $18,000 to secure him, while fellow Middlemount breeders John and Leanne Creedon of Leajon Park also took home a Palmal sire, Palmal Edmistone, an Echo grandson for $16,500. Palmal Drummond, a big, long, well bred grey sire of attractive breed quality was a $16,000 purchase for Paul and Catherine Mackenzie, Arizona Brahman Stud of Dingo.
Doug and Stan Keough, Welcome Downs Cattle Company, Einasleigh, repeat buyers of Lancefield genetics, again attended the sale. They carried out a thorough inspection of the offering before settling in to buy an impressive line of five bulls including three polls. Their top purchase at $14,000 came late in the sale when they selected the 728kg, superbly bred, 20 month old poll sire prospect Lancefield Douglas. A stylish type, he comes from the famous Meryl cowline, and shows exciting potential. Earlier on, the Keoughs paid $12,000 for Lancefield S Hayden, another powerful pedigreed, impressive beef and breed quality sire.
Drew Hacon, Hacon and Sons, Cloncurry paid $15,000 for Lancefield M Ryder, by proven sire Lancefield M Romeo and a first calf of an excellent daughter of JDH Mr Brooks Manso. He’s a very good bodied bull of attractive breed character. Ken Muller, Pluto Pastoral Company, Proserpine, again a long time, repeat buyer, selected a red sire, Lancefield M Rainsworth for $11,000. At 2yo he scaled 760kg and his natural muscling and carcass credentials are exceptional.
The 2yo grey Lancefield S Herston made $15,000 selling to Scott and Vicki Hayes, Yenda V Stud, Mundubbera, who liked the bull’s combination of length and thickness, strong pedigree and breed character.
New South Wales Brahman Studmaster Grant Bulmer, Mountana Stud, Kyogle also selected a quality 2yo son of Lancefield Elgin Manos bred out of the Meryl line for $13,000. He’s a big EMA bull scanning 143 sqcm.
AJM Pastoral, Burleigh Station, Richmond outlaid $11,000 for Lancefield S Horatio, an 804 kg poll grey sire from a productive damline, while $10,000 greys were also purchased by JC and JM Atkinson of Dingo and the Goodwin Family, Hildavale Pastoral Pty Ltd, Tooloombah, Marlborough. Hildavale bid strongly right through the sale to put together a most impressive line of 13 bulls averaging $4,615.
Other volume buyers included John Saunders, Thuriba, Wowan (14 bulls), Kevin Pickersgill, Washpool, Comet (eight bulls), Banana Station, Banana (six bulls) and Everingham Pastoral Company, Einasleigh (five bulls).
Sale Co-ordinator Ken McCaffrey said it was obvious from the attendance from widespread areas and the number of buyer registrations that Brahman breeders were pleased to have Lancefield genetics back on the auction calendar. “Even though the dry season in much of the breeding areas of the North is restricting bull buying activity, the McCamleys received strong support for their Stud genetics today,” he said.
