Two east Wales breeders were among the top buyers at the Hereford Cattle Society’s spring show and sale at Shrewsbury.

A top call of 12,000gns was heard for October 2021-born Normanton 1 Whiskey from TD and WT Livesey having already stood reserve grand male and junior male champion in the pre-sale show before selling to Paul and Vicky Moyle, Newport, Gwent to join their Porton House herd.

By Dendor 1 Rosco P. Coltrane, a son of the 2017 Royal Welsh Show champion Bakgard 1 Keno 1178, it is out of Normanton 1 Fistulina 25th S192, a daughter of Normanton 1 Laertes which stood interbreed champion at the Royal Welsh and Royal Highland Show in 2016.

This sale leader was one of six bulls forward from the Liveseys’ stable which sold to an average of £5,195.

Across the board, 38 bulls averaged £4,302.24, having cleared at 91 per cent with a seemingly stronger appetite for junior bulls.

Next in the money having already stood in the reserve spot to the Normanton bull in the junior male championship was Havenfield 1 Wilf from home of the breed, EL Lewis and son, Dilwyn, Herefordshire.

At 15 months old, it changed hands to L and L Bowen, Nelson, Glamorgan to join the Bowendu herd. A Solpoll 1 Dynamite son, it is out of Dendor 1 Ruby 20th, from one of the most well-known female lines in the breed at present, having already produced heifers to 7,800gns and 5,800gns, sold at the herd’s bicentenary sale last summer.