The snow cleared for round two at the annual Waratah Speckle Park Sale held on property at Guyra Monday 20th July 2015. An excellent line of bulls and females were offered. Cattle sold to new and repeat buyers from as far as north as Comet in Queensland and as far south as Victoria to Kerang.

There were 54 registered bidders competing on the Waratah catalogue including Auctions Plus purchasers. 49 bulls were offered with 45 selling to an average of $4500. PTIC heifers averaged $4812.50 with 12 out of the 13 on offering selling. The yearling heifers also averaged $4812.50 with 8 out of the 12 heifers sold. A full clearance was achieved for the commercial heifers with all 7 selling to average $1328.60. Embryo packages sold to average $2600.

Volume  buyer was  Dean Armstrong from “Comet Downs”, Comet North Queensland. After inspecting the Waratah display at Rockhampton Beef 2015 Mr. Armstrong was impressed enough to take the 1000+km journey to buy 12 bulls to average $4375, selecting some of the lead bulls of the Waratah draft.

Top price of $18,000 was paid for Waratah Just Chillin J154 a Waratah Eddie E22 son purchased by the Van Der Drift family from Kerang in Victoria. After the performance of last year’s purchases, the  Van Der Drifts returned to secure some of the very best of Waratah’s offering. The family purchased 9 head paying up to $7000 for a PTIC heifer J46 a Champagne Pretender daughter to complement their Black Diamond Speckle Park Stud.

Top priced female was $9000 for lot 92 a Codiak Putnam 61Y female purchased by Burnett Valley Pork Pty Ltd of Monto Queensland. Sandra Verdonschot upon purchasing the heifer at the sale exclaimed “My husband is going to kill me”, a further conversation revealed “If you’re buying the best I will be happy”, upon receiving the heifer, the purchasers revealed all parties were satisfied.

The Turnham family were pleased with their second annual sale at “Waratah” challenged by a postponement of the sale due to snow. Noting you certainly cannot change the weather on the day. The Turnham family thanked everyone for persevering with the rescheduled sale date and look for- ward to seeing you in 2016, for a warmer Guyra welcome at the 3rd Waratah Speckle Park sale.