Ridgway Advance Defying the Seasonal Odds |
The difference states number plates in the car park at the sale gave away the Australia-wide interest among the 35 registered bidders, but many more bidders logged onto AuctionsPlus from NSW Riverina to WA., with frenzie on-line bidding from across Australia.
Nutrien Naracoorte live stock manager Nick Heffernan, who was relaying the on-line bids, was working overtime to keep track of the 500 bids during the sale.
The sales highest price ram at lot 7, which made $11,500, was bought through AuctionsPlus and is heading to Walgett, NSW. The sale topper, Ridgway Advance 0945, which was by a homebred sire RA1580, weighed 111kilograms and was carrying a 16.3 micron fleece. It also had a 44millimetre eye muscle depth and 5mm of fat.
Many of the rams had an impressive yearling clean fleece weight in Australian Sheep Breeding Values and negative fibre diameters, including the sale-topper which had a figure of 3.1 CFW and -2.5 YFD.
Nutrien Stud Stock auctioneer Gordon Wood said it was a 'fantastic result' with demand from nearly every state in Australia for the Ridgway Advance modern merino type. "It was the sale of the year so far without a doubt" he said.
Fellow Nutrien stud stock auctioneer Richard Miller said the sale's success was underpinned by online bidding and volume buyers being able to bid with confidence from the front row to the back row. However, Mr Miller said buyers were still able to secure the rams they wanted in their price brackets.
Ridgway Advance sold 171 of 182 rams at an average of $2714.
David Ridgway said he was a bit nervous leading into the sale, but was ecstatic with the result and would like to thank bidders and underbidders for their support.
Ridgway Advance will be the Volume vendor at the upcoming Classings Classic Ram Sale at Murray Bridge on September 1st with a team of 25 Rams.
The Team is split into 2 groups - Starting at Lot 17-30
Continuing on at Lot 51-61. Pictures and Videos on AuctionsPlus. pdf click here
