2010

 

 

2009

2008

Loosebeare Diego joins Wilodge sire line up

Wilodge are delighted to announce the arrival of a new junior herd sire Loosebeare Diego. Bred by the Quick family from Crediton, Devon, Diego stood third in an incredibly strong class at the Carlisle sale ad was purchased for 20,000gns. By the noted sire Rainbow Simon, this May 2008-born bull is out of Loosebeare Soldy, a Cannon daughter going back to Strathallan Diplomat. Like his father he has exceptional performance figures and boasts a beef value of +42 ranking him in the top 1% of the breed.

Loosebeare Diego

 

 

Starting the year with a big thank you!

A big, big “thank you” to all our customers during 2009 and to all our friends and business associates who have all aided us in the most successful year ever at Wilodge, covering both showing and selling of pedigree and commercial stock – you know who you are (it’s too numerous a list, especially in case we neglected to mention somebody!!!). We are both very grateful for all your help, advice, support and most of all friendship – thank you!

Let us be the last to wish everybody a healthy, wealthy and most of all happy 2010 – let’s hope DEFRA doesn’t dream something up to give us even more problems!!

 

 

A fitting end for a successful commercial show season

This year’s commercial show team has had great success boh at summer and winter shows. Out of the most recent six winter events, five homebred steers have never been out of the prizes and have averaged £1337.97 at sale.

The Beef Expo Event in Carlisle saw us take a first with Buck Off before he went on to be reserve male champion at the English Winter Fair. At the same event we won the pedigree Limousin class and then went on to be pedigree champion with Destroyer, who later sold for £1437.50 to Jimmy and Vikki Woods of Bowland Foods Ltd. At the same event we stood 3rd with Deadline and 5th with Mr Willetts. This was the first outing for our homebred steers by our stock bull Clydevalley Arty.

Having made the long journey up to Scotland for the Scottish Winter Fair, we stood a pleasing second in the class to the overall champion.

The Royal Welsh Winter Fair saw us take three third places with Buck Off, Dave and Deadline and a 6th place with Mr Willetts. Our local fatstock show at Market Drayton saw us take a first with Dave who then sold for £1162.46 and Mr Willetts who sold for £1207.72.   

We then headed south for the Sedgemoor event where we stood first and reserve overall champion with Buck Off before selling him for 254p/kg (grossing £1692.43) to Court Farm Butchers. We also stood first with Deadline who was then grossed £1189.69 to Mike and Melanie Alford of Stilman’s. Deadline’s dam is Hackney Royal Highness and sire is Clydevalley Arty.

It’s been a fantastic year for the commercial team and we can only look forward to similar success on the 2010 show circuit.

 

 

Success at Red Ladies Day

This year’s Red Ladies Day Derby in Carlisle saw us sell Wilodge Dravenelle, a daughter of the herd’s best cow Ravenelle by Cowin Anton. She sold for 5000gns to Geoffrey Annett, Morpeth, Northumberland, for his own select herd. She joins Wilodge Vavavoom, purchased in May 2009 for 4200gns and another Wilodge Tonka sired female.  

He highlight for the sale for us was the sale of 4 grade A embryos by the 42,000gns Wilodge Vantastic out of the 24,000gns Sarkley Bellola, mother of the 30,000gns Wilodge Dallaglio who sold in Carlisle October 2009. These sold for the all breeds record embryo price of 2200gns each to David and Emma Armstrong, Chorley, Lancashire, for their Gritstone herd.

 

 

Buck Off second to overall Royal Highland Winter Fair Champion

Having made the long journey up to this year’s Royal Highland Winter Fair, we were incredibly pleased to stand second with our homebred Limousin cross steer Buck Off in a strong class of 13 steers. Congratulations to Lynne and Hugh Dunlop who beat us in the class and then went on to take the overall championship. Buck Off will next make an appearance at the Welsh Winter Fair.

 

 

Championship honours at English Winter Fair

The winter fatstock show season is proving a fruitful one for the Wilodge team with a couple of big wins at the recent English Winter Fair held at Bingley Hall, Staffordshire.

We took a team of four and came home with prizes for all. The highlight was winning the purebred championship with our pedigree steer Wilodge Destroyer. Having won the Limousin steer class under pedigree judge Bernard Price, he then went on to be Limousin champion and then overall pedigree champion when Bernard joined forces with commercial judge Rob Rattray for the championship.

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Destroyer is by Solomon, a bull that is consistently breeding excellent commercial cattle for us. He later sold at the post show auction for £2.50/kg, so with an excellent day’s prize money, he grossed £2000 for us. 

Our other Solomon son, Buck Off, who has already had an excellent show season, won his crossbred steer class and then went on to take the reserve steer championship. Buck Off is out of the full sister to the dam of The Stig, the Smithfield 2008 steer champion and exhibitor bred champion. Buck Off will next be shown at the Scottish Winter Fair.

The other two members of the team also picked up prizes in incredibly tough classes. On his first outing this year, Paul’s pedigree steer Hackney Deadline, by our stock bull Clydevalley Arty out of Hackney Royal Highness, stood 3rd in the bred and fed class. Deadline is now destined for the Welsh Winter Fair later next month.

Another Arty son, Mr Willetts, stood 5th in a very strong crossbred class. Homebred again, he is out of an almost pure Limouisn cow and will next head to the Welsh Winter Fair with Deadline. 

 

 

Wilodge Dallaglio tops Carlisle trade at 30,000 gns

Completing an incredibly successful year on the show circuit, we took three bulls to the Limousin Society’s premier sale at Carlisle in October and not only took the reserve junior and overall reserve championship under judge Bob Adams of the Newhouse herd, but led the trade with a call of 30,000gns with Wilodge Dallaglio.

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Dallaglio has been shown throughout the summer picking up a host of rosettes including male champion and reserve junior champion at this year’s Royal Welsh Show. He is one of the most correct, muscled bulls ever bred at Wilodge. With a breed value of +28 which places him the top 10% of the breed, Dallaglio is by the 42,000gns Wilodge Tonka son Wilodge Vantastic and out of Sarkely Bellola, a female we purchased as a yearling heifer for 24,000gns. Bellola is a Cloughhead Lord daughter out of the Ronick Luke daughter Sarkley Talola, she is breeding incredibly well and Dallaglio’s full sister is proving to be quite the heifer at home. 

After a bidding war between a number of commercial and pedigree breeders, the hammer finally fell at 30,000gns in a joint partnership between commercial and pedigree producers KD Harryman, Keskadale Farming, Keswick, Cumbria together with Messrs M & W Richardson, Cockermouth, Cumbria who run the Keskadale and Honister pedigree herds respectively. The Keskadale herd comprises 100 pedigree animals alongside 40 commercial heifers and 25 commercial cows – the latter used for breeding show calves, while the Richardson family are renowned for producing top quality show calves and have topped Cockermouth show calf sale for the last 12 years. Immediate plans are for the bull to settle a few cows and then go for semen collection at the Cogent Stud.

Also selling at Carlisle, was Wilodge Designer, a son of the Ronick Iceman son Ryedale Paragon out of the Winnington Olis daughter Nouvelle Sophia, a naturally muscular and proven dam at Wilodge and is the mother of two outstanding Rainbow Simon daughters. Designer has a beef value of +34 and a muscle score of +6, ranking him in the top 10% of the breed. Having been taken with his mother on a farm visit to Wilodge last year, he sold for 8000gns to Mr and Mrs JJ and BD Comer, Swindon, who run the Moonleaze herd.

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Wilodge Dublin Flyer

Next at 6000gns was the first prize Wilodge Dublin Flyer. By the Mas Du Clo son Milbrook Tanko, Dublinflyer has had a tremendous show season for us culminating in wins at the Bath and West and Royal Show to name but a few. Out of the Oxygene daughter Wilodge Soblahdi who goes back to one of the herd’s foundation cows Newsham Delila, Dublinflyer is in the top 1% of the breed with a beef value of +40 and a muscle score of +6. He sold to Messrs WH and DA Gass, Carlisle, Cumbria for their commercial and Nunscleugh pedigree herd. 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 
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Champion commercial at Edenbridge and Oxted Show

Having not been able to make Edenbridge and Oxted show last year, it was great to head down to Surrey for this year. We took the pedigrees and commercials, but this time fared better with the commercial team. Our Limousin cross heifer Oh La La took a first prize in her heifer class under judge Simon David, Somerset, and then went on to take the female and overall championship. 

Our purebred Limousin steer Wilodge Destroyer won his class and was overall male champion, while our other Limousin cross steer Buck Off was third in his class. 

In the pedigree section we won a first place with Wilodge Diamante under judge George Smith, while Wilodge Dublin Flyer also won his class and stood reserve male champion. 

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Champion and reserve at Burwarton for Wilodge Limousins

Leading the way for us at Burwarton Show under judge and breeder Vicky Maynard was Wilodge Diamante (daughter of Wilodge Vantastic) who won her class and took the female and overall breed championship. She also teamed up with Wilodge Dallaglio (by Vantastic) to win the pairs competition as well as be part of the winning interbreed group of four championship.

Dallaglio himself won his class and stood overall reserve champion behind Diamante. Wilodge Dublin Flyer (by Millbrook Tanko) stood second to Dallaglio in the junior bull class and was also part of the winning interbreed group of four championship.

In the commercial classes, Oh La La won her class and then went on to stand overall commercial champion under judge Matthew Smith, while Buck Off also won his class and stood reserve overall champion.

 

 

Wilodge Diamante snapping at the heels of overall interbreed champion

The Royal Welsh Show this year was a fantastic show and has been the highlight of the year for us. Wilodge Diamante won her class and was placed junior female champion as well as overall junior champion. She was then tapped out as reserve female champion and followed the overall Limousin champion to take the reserve overall championship. She also joined the breed champion to make up part of the Group of Five where the Limousins were placed interbreed champions.

Wilodge Dallaglio made a return to the show circuit and won his class as well as being placed junior male championship, overall male champion and reserve overall junior champion behind Diamante. He teamed up with her again to win the pairs competition and took the RWAS/Agri Lloyd Elite junior bull championship. 

Our Limousin cross steer Buck Off won his class in an incredibly tough commercial section.

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Wilodge Dallaglio

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Wilodge Diamante reserve female champion at Great Yorkshire Show

Diamante had yet another successful show standing second in her class she was placed reserve junior female champion and also went on to take the reserve female championship. She was also part of the winning junior interbreed team as well as a member of the reserve senior interbreed team.

Dublin Flyer won his class and went on to be reserve junior male champion.

Competition was extremely fierce in the commercial section and we were incredibly pleased to stand 2nd with Buck Off under judge Keith Harryman, who then tapped him out to be reserve commercial steer champion.

 

 

Dublin Flyer male champion at Royal Show

This year’s Royal Show saw Wilodge pick up a first prize in the young bull class with Dublin Flyer who then went on to take the male championship as well as the junior male and reserve overall Limousin junior championship. He was also best bull bred by exhibitor.

In the female section, Wilodge Diamante won her class and was then reserve junior female champion behind the overall champion of the show.

Wilodge Dublin Flyer

Wilodge Dublin Flyer

 

 

Wilodge dominate Limousin classes at East of England Show

Wilodge Diamante was yet again on winning form at this year’s East of England Show under stand-in judge David Cormack who had to step in last minute to replace Hazel Fotheringham whose car unfortunately broke down on route to the show. 

Diamante won her class, was junior female champion, overall junior Limousin champion and then breed champion. She then went on to be placed junior interbreed champion under David Barker and teamed up with Dublin Flyer to win the pairs competition.

Dublin flyer also won his class and was then placed male champion as well as junior male champion. He stood reserve for overall junior champion behind Diamante and then stood reserve overall champion behind her again.

Considering June is a fairly early start to the commercial show season, we were exceptionally pleased with how our stock performed here. Oh La La won her class and also teamed up with Buck Off to win the pairs, while Buck Off himself won his class, took the overall steer championship and then stood overall reserve commercial champion under judge Harry Emslie. This was particularly pleasing as it was Buck Off’s first outing of the year.

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Wilodge Diamante

 

 

Diamante reserve interbreed at Bath and West Show

We had a fantastic show at Bath and West. Wilodge Diamante won her class and then went on to take the female championship and then the overall Limousin championship. In the interbreed championship we were fortunate to go one better and stand reserve overall interbreed and reserve overall exhibitor bred champion.

Our yearling bull Wilodge Dublin Flyer by Millbrook Tanko also won his class and then went on take the reserve male championship. He also stood Beef Breeder champion.

In the calf class Wilodge Dallaglio won his class and was then placed champion calf.

In the commercial classes we stood second with Ooh Laa Laa and then went on to take the reserve overall commercial championship under judge Jason Wareham.

 

 

Wilodge win the pedigree section at Beef Expo

Along with our commercial show cattle we took two pedigree cattle to the Beef Expo event held at The Three Counties showground in Malvern. Our yearling heifer Wilodge Diamante by Wilodge Vantastic out of Wilodge Amethyst won her class and then went on to take the female pedigree championship followed by the overall pedigree championship.

Following close behind her was our 10 month old bull Wilodge Dallaglio, again by Vantastic and out of Sarkley Bellola. He won his class and then took the male championship before standing reserve overall to Diamante.

In the commercial classes Oh La La on her first outing stood 2nd in her class and then went on to take the reserve heifer championship and overall exhibitor bred championship, while Milly Many, who is the first commercial calf to be shown by Clydevalley Arty stood second in her class and went on to be reserve baby beef champion

 

 

Wilodge Casino sells for 11,000 gns in Carlisle

Our only entry for Carlisle this May saw Wilodge Casino sell for 11,000gns to Mike and Sarah Potter, Oxfordshire. Casino stood first in his class and is a son of Neuf out of Venelle, a daughter of Ravenelle and full ET sister to Wilodge Vantastic.

Wilodge Casino

Wilodge Casino

 

 

October 2008

Wilodge Cerberus tops Carlisle trade at 50,000 gns

It’s not very often we’re lost for words, but this Carlisle Limousin sale was a first for many things. Having taken the overall championship with Wilodge Cerberus, a bull we’ve admired strongly at home from a young age,  he then went on to lead the day’s trade at 50,000gns (a personal best for Wilodge) selling to Alan Jenkinson for his Whinfell Park herd.

Cerberus is by Wilodge Tonka (Oxygene out of Wilodge Meclaire) and is out of Wilodge Priceless (Broadmeadows Cannon out of Wilodge little Gem).

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Wilodge Cerberus

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Pictures courtesy of Niall Robertson

 

 

February 2008 - Wilodge Bestmate sells for 8000 gns

Selling at Carlisle this month was Wilodge Bestmate, a son of the renowned and powerful sire Oxygene and out of one of the favourite cows in the herd Hartside Dream. He sold for 8000gns to J Thompson, Melberby for his Hartsideanew pedigree Limousin herd.

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Wilodge Bestmate
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