The supreme champion and sale leader at the Holstein NI’s January Show and Sale at the Pedigree Sales Arena, Moira, came from William and James Crawford’s herd.
Their two-year-old, Ardmore Windbrook Snowdrop was sired by Gillette Windbrook ET, and is out of a home-bred dam by the noted Picston Shottle. She was sold for 2,950 gns to Paul Flanagan’s Tubbertoby Herd in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth. There was a complete clearance for freshly calved heifers with prices ranging from 1,100gns to a top of 2,950gns, and 20 lots came under the hammer of auctioneer Michael Taaffe to level at £1,686 per head.
Sponsored by Cogent, the pre-sale show was judged by the company’s WMS evaluator Dennis Torrens.
“The champion is a super heifer with real dairy character, and tremendous rear udder ligament. She stood out from the moment I saw her.” The Crawford duo also secured the reserve championship with Ardmore Loader Freda. Sired by the Stouder Morty son Cogent Loader, she is bred from a VG86 dam by Magor Bolivia Allen and sold for 1,800gns to John Stewart.
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