It’s been a busy couple of months at Boars Head with private sales and success at the East of England Smithfield Festival Simmental calf show.
Firstly in November we were delighted to sell Boars Head Snowdrop 2nd in a private deal to John Hawkins’ Chates herd at Cowfold, West Sussex. Snowdrop is an August 2010-born daughter of our herd sire Seaview Prince Charming and is out of the Blackford Falcon daughter Fole Snowdrop 15th. We’d like to wish John all the best with Snowdrop.
December saw the calf show and the trip to the Peterborough Showground proved a successful one as Boars Head Nelly 2nd, another Prince Charming daughter out of Oakhill Nelly 21st, stood second in the September-born heifer calf class, while Boars Head Berbaton 10, a September 2010-born son of Prince Charming again, stood third in a competitive September-born bull calf class. Berbeton is out of Boars Head Grace 2nd, a daughter of Dovefields Gallant, and is yet another successful result of the prolific Grace family which goes back to one of our early foundation females Wistow Grace 40th. Berbaton, who has a TI of +29 and a SRI of +34, has since been sold in a private deal to pedigree breeders G D Key and Son, Norwich, Norfolk, for an undisclosed figure.