Sale season kicked off for the Irish Limousin Cattle Society\nwith a Show and Sale in Gort mart on Friday evening the 6th March 2020. A very\nsmall entry meet with a 57% clearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judging the show was John Jennings of the Glencarr pedigree herd\nbased in Williamstown, Co. Galway. John commented after the show:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was delighted to be asked to judge this show today. I was presented with some very good quality bulls. My champion Ardnacrusha Podge Et is a very sweet young bull with tremendous growth for his age. My choice for Reserve Champion is Glencarrigh Natural \u2013 an outstanding bull with a lot of muscle. Overall a very good lineup of bulls. Many thanks to the society for the opportunity to judge here today and best wishes to all purchasers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Topping the sale was second prize winner Brooklands Nero at\n\u20ac2,500. Nero is son of Brooklands Lorenzo (Bavardage X Ballinline Uppie) and\nBrooklands Jemma. Nero was bred in Enniskeane, Co. Cork by Clive Jennings. Born\nin June 2018, Nero boasts five star ratings in Replacement index, Terminal\nindex, Docility, Carcass weight and Carcass conformation. Nero was purchased by\nGalway farmer James Barrett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Reynolds, Carrick On Shannon, Co. Leitrim sold his bull\nfor \u20ac2,100. Bunnymore Noel is a son of Ampertaine Foreman and the homebred\nFieldson Alfy dam Bunnymore Holly. Noel has five star ratings in Terminal\nindex, Carcass weight and Carcass conformation. Niall Kilkenny purchased Noel\nfor his Athenry based herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Multistarred Knockcoolkeare Napoleon sold for \u20ac2,000. Napoleon\nwas bred in Mount Collins, Co. Limerick by Michael Roche. Born in August 2018,\nNapoleon has Gamin, Sympa and Horion in his sire stack. Napoleon was purchased\nby Paddy Hogan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the same price was Greenwood Nevin from Michael Finn,\nKildysart, Co. Clare. Nevin is a son of Tomschoice Imperial and Greenwood Lara\nand was born in September 2018. Nevin was acquired by Noel Kelly from county\nClare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We would like to thank the Management and staff of Gort mart,\nthanks to Denis our auctioneer, Martin our steward and many thanks and best\nwishes to the purchasers at today\u2019s sale. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sale season kicked off for the Irish Limousin Cattle Society with a Show and Sale in Gort mart on Friday evening the 6th March 2020. A very small entry meet with a 57% clearance. Judging the show was John Jennings of the Glencarr pedigree herd based in Williamstown, Co. Galway. John commented after the show: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auction-results","category-livestock-sales"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denisbarrett.com\/en_GB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}