5 Nations Native Breed Sale - March 18th 2022 (Archived #246686)

Our Sellers, John & Judy Fry farm within England's newest National Park, the South Downs where their farm is bordered by beautiful riverbanks and lots of flowering meadows. Their Shorthorn herd was established in 2015 with the purchase of 5 heifers from the renowned Glenariff herd and a young bull from Meonside. John has really got the Shorthorn bug so much so that he now chairs the Southern Beef Shorthorn Club, and John & Judy were delighted to host a club visit to their farm last July when they welcomed a large number of visitors. The herd has enjoyed showing success under their herd prefix Hansford, a credit to their breeding programme. 

The first of two sale lots is Hansford Pegasus, a good, shapely bull with strong legs, good feet, small head, style and potential. His Pedigree line is impressive going back to Fearn Godfather, who is in the top 1% of the breed for Selection Indexes and Carcase Weight. Pegasus' sire, Coldrochie Leroy was purchased for 9,000gns in May 2018 at a breed society sale in Stirling when he was only 14 months old, but it was already clear that he would turn into an amazing stock bull. It's been said many times that Leroy is out of the best cow from the Coldrochie herd herself been a powerful cow, who has always bred good, strong calves. Pegasus has natural growth, good EBV's and has not been overfed. He is ready to work, and successfully got heifers in calf last year, with all heifers PD tested in calf. Myostatin E226X=1, F94L=0, NT419=0, NT821=0

• TB free herd in a TB4 area and last test April 21
• Elite Health Status
• Higher health level 1 Johnes 
• Accredited BVD
• Accredited Lepto
• IBR vaccinated
• Haulage can be arranged to UK Mainland (Buyers Expense)
• John has agreed to pay for transfers of Pedigree certificates as luck money for the winning bidder