Big price: Epic Amy’s Girl R8 sold for $40,000 at the 2021 Southern Success Speckle Park sale. The South Australian cow was looked after by Hanging Rock Speckle Park while in Victoria as her owners stayed behind due to SA’s tough border measures.
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Daneka Hill
A $40,000 heifer from South Australia has taken out Shepparton’s all-star Speckle Park sale, beating the bulls at their own game thanks to her show-ring potential.
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Named Epic Amy’s Girl R8, the heifer was offered by Epic Speckle Park after she won reserve Champion at the Sydney Royal Show.
The SA stud also took out top-priced bull with Epic Run Out at $20,000 — the honour was shared with Keiross Speckle Park (outside Hay) whose bull Keiross The Sugar Man sold for the same amount.
Hundreds attended Shepparton Regional Saleyards on Saturday (November 6) for the Southern Success Speckle Park Sale, which proved to be a real who’s-who in the popular breed.
The sale averaged $8681 across the bulls and $14,039 across the cows, grossing $1.1 million in total.
It’s a change on the inaugural 2020 sale, which occurred purely online, where cows topped out at $21,000 and bulls sold to $15,000.
The 2021 event was the first time the sale had been run in person and held in conjunction with a commercial Speckle Park sale.
Friday’s commercial sale saw cow and calf units hover between $4000 and $2000 each — in sharp contrast to the Saturday stud sales were good cows were easily snagging $10,000.
Loves the breed: Katunga dairy farmer turned Pyalong Speckle Park stud breeder Peter McIntosh said he dairied for 50 years and never had the urge to go and sit in the paddock to ‘just watch the cows’. “With these guys, you do,” he said. “They’re just great.”
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Daneka Hill
Peter McIntosh from Phoenix Park had cows in the commercial sale and a bidder’s number in the stud sale.
“This is the first sale of its kind,” Mr McIntosh said of the commercial-stud sale combo.
“It’s a chance for all us Speckle junkies to come together.
“We’re transitioning from commercial to purebred at the moment, so it’s well positioned for us.”
Mr McIntosh said Speckle Parks had been an excellent choice as he transitioned out of dairy and irrigation in Katunga and into stud cattle in Pyalong.
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