Report: Ronan Gallagher’s Sale
Prices skyrocketed to €8,600 at Ronan Gallagher’s Summer Belles, an annual sale of cattle and sheep, on MartEye’s platform in conjunction with Mayo-Sligo (Ballina) Livestock Mart, which drew to a close on Monday, July 3rd, 2023.
Leading the charge was a pedigree registered Charolais heifer, lot number 5 (main image), an Anside Foreman daughter, which was born in March 2020 and sold scanned in-calf 5 months to the AI Charolais bull, Fiston.
Next on the price table at €3,400 was lot number 1, another in-calf heifer, a PPS daughter out of a Limousin-cross dam, born in November 2020 and scanned in-calf to the AI Limousin bull, EBY.
At €3,200 was lot number 8, described by Gallagher as a “real flushing contender”. She was born in May 2020 and is out of a Lodge Hamlet son, Gortermone Lump, and an Aberdeen Angus-cross Belgian Blue cow, herself a Goulding Jumbo King K436 ET.
The hammer fell at €3,100 for lot number 4, a January 2021-born Limousin-cross heifer, scanned in-calf to the aforementioned AI Limousin bull, EBY.
She is herself by Willowbrook Nero, a son of Willowbrook Jeremy and Willowbrook Chloe, by Ronick Iceman, and a Belgian Blue-cross dam, herself by FSN – Folon De Cras Avernas.
At €2,900 was lot 2, a July-2021-born BB2247 (3033 Du Grand Bon Dieu) daughter out of a 3/4-bred Limousin cow with some BB and AA influence, scanned in-calf to EBY.
€2,700 and under
Lot 27 – an April-2022-born heifer is by Boherard Jammy Dodger ET, a Mannequin De Sberchamps son, with Empire D’Ochain and Accord de Wihogne in his stire stack – was the next highest-selling contender at €2,700.
She is a 3/4-bred Belgian Blue heifer with some Limousin and Simmental influence from her dam.
Changing hands at €2,650 was lot number 3, a BB4438 (An De Beauffaux) daughter out of a Limousin-cross-Simmental-cross Shorthorn dam, born in June 2021 and scanned in-calf to EBY.
Three entries pocketed €2,500, with the first being lot 10, a May 2021-born Rosemount Cash ET (RWS) daughter out of a Limousin (84.38%)- Simmental 15.63%) cow.
The second heifer to hit this price tag was lot 31, a BB4438 (An De Beauffaux) daughter out of a 93% bred LM with some Angus influence, by Tomschoice Iceberg, born in January 2022.
At the same four-digit figure was lot number 41, a WBH (Herbert VD Noord) daughter out of a ¾-bred Limousin-Angus cow, herself by Rocky, born in April 2022.
At €2,450 was lot 32, an EBY (Elderberry Galahad) daughter out of a Limousin-Belgian-Blue daughter, by Ardlea Dan, born in January 2022.
Prices ranged from €1,550 upwards, with 44 finding new homes across Cavan, Meath, Mayo, Donegal, Louth, Carlow, Sligo, Tipperary, Galway, Leitrim, Clare and Armagh and 3 unsold.
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