Average – £10,663 +£3435 on 2024
Salers records were smashed at Stirling Bull Sales this bank holiday weekend as the overall champion Rednock Top Gun from Gill & Malcolm Pye of Rednock Estate, Port of Monteith, set a new UK breed record of 20,000gns on Monday 5th May 2025. Top Gun brought out by stock man Alfie McGregor, snatched the record held by Bacardi Legend which was previously set at 15,000gns in 2017. The breathtaking 20,000gns record breaker bid came from renowned pedigree breeders P.M. & S.M. Donger, of the Seawell herd, Towcester, Northants. Salers’ were introduced to the Seawell family farm in 2001 and they now run 170 pedigree Salers breeding cows, alongside the 150 pedigree Charolais. The previous day, Rednock Top Gun was tapped out by judge Neil Girvan from Gateshaw, Scottish Borders, as the supreme breed champion. Neil a partner on the family farm in the Cheviot Uplands of the Scottish Borders, which extends to 850 acres with 350 suckler cows and 100 breeding ewes, picked out the April-2023 son of the imported sire Senateur bred by David Fourtet.
Not content with one record, four out of the nine Salers bulls presented for sale reached five-figure sums, setting another brand-new UK record average of £10,663 for nine bulls, and a 100% clearance rate.
Third prize bull, May-2023 Cumbrian Trevor Poll sired by Parkfield Polled Nobel out of homebred Cumbrian Camelia 855, from Farmstock Genetics, Selkirk, was knocked down at the second highest bid on the day of 15,000gns to Society members Rannagulzion Farms, Blairgowrie, while the reserve overall champion from Rednock Estate, May-2023 Rednock Topol, sired the same way as the champion but this time out of Rigel Candy who has bred a Royal Highland Show champion and a senior champion at the Premier sale in Castle Douglas. Rednock Topol caught the eye of D A Baird & Sons, Newburgh Fife who bid to 14,000gns for his pick from the Rednock team.
The Scottish Government Bull stud bid to 11,000gns for fourth prize Rigel Trenwith Poll, an April-2023 Lascaux sired son, out of Rigel Demelza from Rigel Pedigree, Yarm Yorkshire and Jane and Terence Pye’s second consignment Rigel Torridon Poll an April-2023 bull by the outcross sire Rigel Pudsey Poll went under the hammer at 7,800gns to R Simpson & Son, Crieff, Perthshire.
Strathallan Topgun was next in the money at 6,800gns, this May-2023 Seawell Nobleman son out of Strathallan Ochil went to a new postcode in Girvan, Ayrshire, home of I & L Buchanan.
The final three junior bulls from Rednock Estate, Stirling, peaked at 6,000gns for Rednock Underwater Poll sired by Rednock Oswald Poll who also sired the 11,000gns Rednock Shaggy, Underwater Poll had previously been crowned reserve champion at Stars of the Future in 2024, and his grand dam Rednock Myrrh was the Stars of the Future any other breed champion in 2019.He heads to Ardtalla Estates Ltd Port Ellen, on the Isle of Islay.
Icare son Rednock Uzo born in March-2024 stood out for D Howat, Girvan Ayrshire, who bid to 5,800gns for this bull out of Rednock Freda a daughter of the 12,000gns Drumaglea Kes, and another Icare sired entry from the same stable, Rednock Ulysses out of homebred Rednock Darcy hit the 5,000gns mark for A & A P Morrison, Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
Earlier in the day three breeding females from D. Murray Lyle, Dunblane, Strathallan, Tess, Tilly and Tanna sold for 3,000gns a piece to R Milne, Aberdeenshire. Ten March-May 2024 born heifers from Rednock Estate peaked at 2,700gns twice, for Rednock Toowoomba a Senateur daughter from Rednock Tasmania who sold to Burnton Farms, Laurencekirk, and Rednock Tien Poll out of Rednock Tiana Poll sired by Rednock Oswald Poll to R J D Milne, Aberdeenshire. The hammer went down at 2,600gns four times for Senateur daughters, the first of which was Rednock Dragonfly Blk for Burnton Farms, followed by Rednock Maple who headed home with D Strachan & Son, Lanarkshire, while L Claughan, Elwick Village, Hartlepool, expanded his herd of Salers with Rednock Anna and Rednock Caroline. Thirteen females achieved 100% clearance selling to a top of 3,000gns, and an average of £2819. Meanwhile in the cow and calf section, six females from the Cleuchhead herd of pedigree Salers, owned by the Livesey family based in Lanarkshire and the Scottish Borders also had a 100% clearance rate, and topped at 4,700gns with an average of £4480 and all were purchased by D B Watt & Son, Balmedie, Aberdeen. Leading the way at 4,700gns was Cleuchhead Gentle 1662 with her heifer calf at foot, sired by the imported French sire Thor while Cleuchhead Gentle 1520 again with a heifer calf at foot, this time sired by Cleuchhead Rockefeller reached 4,500gns and two further lots peaked at 4,400gns for Cleuchhead Gentle 1518 and Cleuchhead Gentle 1632 both of which had steer calves at foot.
On this historic day the Salers Cattle Society of the UK would like to extend its congratulations to all the vendors and wish all the purchasers every success with their new stock. A massive thank you must go to all the team at United Auctions and a special mention to the two auctioneers Murray Steel and Andrew Weir.
SHOW RESULTS
Overall Champion
Rednock Top Gun from Rednock Estate
Reserve Overall Champion
Rednock Topol from Rednock Estate
CLASS RESULTS
- Rednock Top Gun – Rednock Estate
- Rednock Topol – Rednock Esate
- Cumbrian Trevor Poll – Farmstock Genetics
- Rigel Trenwith Poll – Rigel Pedigree
- Rednock Ulysses – Rednock Estate
SALE RESULTS
148 Rigel Pedigree 7800 R Simpson & Son, Crieff, Perthshire
149 Rigel Pedigree 11000 Scottish Givernment Bull Stud, Inverness
150 Rednock Estate 20000 PM & SM Donger, Towcester, Northants
151 D. M. Lyle 6800 I & L Buchanan, Lendalfoot, Girvan
153 Rednock Estate 14000 W F & H Logan, Girvan, Ayrshire
154 Farmstock Genetics 15000 Rannagulzion Farms, Blairgowrie, Perthshire
155 Rednock Estate 5000 A & A P Morrison, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
156 Rednock Estate 5800 D Howat, Girvan, Ayrshire
158 Rednock Estate 6000 Ardtalla Estates Ltd, Port Ellen, Isle of Islay
FEMALE SALE RESULTS
Heifer section
301 D. M Lyle 3000 R J D Milne, North Bethelnie, Aberdeenshire
302 D. M Lyle 3000 R J D Milne, North Bethelnie, Aberdeenshire
303 D. M Lyle 3000 R J D Milne, North Bethelnie, Aberdeenshire
304 Rednock Estate 2500 Burnton Farms, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire
305 Rednock Estate 2550 Burnton Farms, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire
306 Rednock Estate 2600 Burnton Farms, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire
307 Rednock Estate 2700 Burnton Farms, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire
308 Rednock Estate 2700 R J D Milne, North Bethelnie, Aberdeenshire
309 Rednock Estate 2600 D Strachan & Son, Strathaven, Lanarkshire
310 Rednock Estate 2600 L Claughan, Elwick Village, Hartlepool
311 Rednock Estate 2500 D G & B Watt, Balmedie, Aberdeen
312 Rednock Estate 2550 R J D Milne, North Bethelnie, Aberdeenshire
313 Rednock Estate 2600 L Claughan, Elwick Village, Hartlepool
Cows with calves at foot section
314 Cleuchhead 3800 D G & B Watt, Balmedie, Aberdeen
315 Cleuchhead 3800 D G & B Watt, Balmedie, Aberdeen
316 Cleuchhead 4400 D G & B Watt, Balmedie, Aberdeen
317 Cleuchhead 4500 D G & B Watt, Balmedie, Aberdeen
318 Cleuchhead 4400 D G & B Watt, Balmedie, Aberdeen
319 Cleuchhead 4700 D G & B Watt, Balmedie, Aberdeen
