Sparks were flying and the sale was soaring at Stirling 17th October with a packed ringside and solid demand for Hereford females.
Topping the sale and achieving a new centre record for the highest priced Hereford Female was Lot 226 Moralee 1 Kylie AQ408 from T & D Harrison. The pick of the heifers and a star in the making, this June 2025 born embryo is out of the (OG Kylie) Moralee 1 Kylie whose bred numerous sale toppers and show winners including the record breaking Moralee 1 Big Time who sold for 22,000gns and Moralee 1 Kylie KSS3, Champion of Europe 2024. Kylie AQ408’s sire is Aqua Hollow Tallent 24K, a Canadian Import born in 1978 and a three time winner or the Hereford Cattle Society Sire of the Year in the 1980’s. Away to her new home in Perthshire, Scotland, Kylie joins the Redstroke pedigree Hereford herd owned by Ian Wilkinson.
Moralee 1 Kylie AQ408.
Second top price at 7,000gns was Criffel 1 Adelaide with her four month old heifer calf at foot Criffel 1 Dorothy, exhibited by E Burgess. Adelaide born June 2023 is a first calved heifer sired by Wirruna Peace P198, an Australian ai sire and her dam is Criffel 1 Souvenir, Lot 228 in the sale selling for 6000gns. Adelaide is in the top 5 % of the Hereford breed for calving, 200,400,600 day weight gain, terminal index and self replacement index. She is PD’d in calf to Vexour 1 Chief. Her heifer calf Dorothy is a Netherhall 1 Bartender B135 calf.
Criffel 1 Adelaide with calf at foot Criffel 1 Dorothy.
Next at 6000gns and from the same vendor was Criffel 1 Souvenir, Lot 228 and the dam to 7000gns Criffel 1 Adelaide and Lot 230, Criffel 1 Delilah. A seven year old, ET cow born May 2019, Souvenir is a complete outcross with no other cows in the UK with her breeding. Sired by Mount Difficult Centennial, an Australian polled bull who has bred sons across the water for a high of $52,000 and out of a New Zeland Hereford dam, Otapawa Minerva 7005. Sold with her September 2026 born bull calf at foot, Criffel 1 Everest. He is sired by Netherhall 1 Bartender. At 6,000gns the hammer got knocked down to Ayshire pedigree Hereford breeder under the Arranview Prefix, Mr W Andrew.
Criffel 1 Souvenir with calf at foot Criffel 1 Everest.
Back to the Moralee stable fetching 6,500gns was Moralee 1 Sparkles RK392, selling to J B Torrance, Knowetop Herefords, South Lanarkshire. December 2024 born, Sparkles was scanned 4 months in calf to the herds stock bull Bawnlea 1 Firecracker. Her dam Tynedale 1 Sparkles 674, was purchased from the Haire family, Dorepoll Herefords in 2020 and has bred well for the herd including a National Poll Show Junior Male Champion, Moralee 1 Baz and Moralee 1 Sparkles RK419, Reserve Junior Female Champion at the National Poll Show this year. Sparkles is sired by the renowned Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks, former Champion Hereford of Europe in 2021, Poll Bull of The Year and sire of the record breaking 22,000gns Moralee 1 Big Time.
Moralee 1 Sparkles RK392.
Heading back down to Northumberland to pedigree breeders N & A Oliver under the Fairshaw prefix is Lot 227, Moralee 1 Wispa RK412, selling for 6,000gns. A September 2025 born heifer, Wispa is out of Chattlehope 1 Wispa, an Elwess Pumba daughter and is sired by Moralee 1 Rebel Kicks. Wispas maternal sister Moralee 1 Wispa TE359 was also sold in Stirling in the Spring as a yearling heifer for 6,800gns.
Moralee 1 Wispa RK412.
Away to the same home and selling for 5,000gns, the daughter of previous lot 228, Criffel 1 Delilah, again from E Burgess. Delilah is a September 2025 born heifer sired by another Australian sire, Wirruna Katnook K74.
Criffel 1 Delilah.
United Auctions auctioneer Murray Steel says
’Hereford females were a joy to sell yesterday, with an excellent opportunity to purchase some fantastic genetics from great established herds. I think there’s a great opportunity in Stirling for the Herefords to grow. We’re in a great location. And Already have excellent quality coming forward from breeders’.
Moralee 1 Kylie AQ408.
Smiles all round for Tom & Di Harrison with 9,000gns Moralee 1 Kylie AQ408.
Words: Maddie Clarke.