NI Limousin Club Ladies in Red 19th August 2023
Updated: Aug 8
Crawford Brothers are offering five Pedigree Limousin Heifers for sale at the upcoming Ladies in Red Sale, Saturday 19th August 2023 - Ballymena Mart, Northern Ireland.
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Rathkeeland Twilight LOT 12
Won 1st prize strong class heifers N.I Limousin Calf Show March 2023
Stylish easy fleshing female with proven show winning pedigree, very good natured.
Twilight's overall beef value LM 40 entering into top 10% of the breed
Twilight's dam, Rathkeeland Phoenix is a Champion Show animal. Twilight has Champion in her breeding. This is the first of Rathkeeland Phoenix's breeding offered for sale.
Dam Rathkeeland Phoenix
National NI Show
- National Limousin Calf Champion 2019
- National Limousin Reserve Female Champion 2019
- National Reserve Overall Champion N.I Limousin Championship 2019 .
Stars of the Future Calf Show Stirling Scotland 2019
-Won 1st Prize Heifer Calf
-Junior Female Champion
Balmoral Show 2022
-Won Best Junior Limousin Cow with Calf (Twilight) at foot Balmoral show 2022
Rathkeeland Phoenix is Sired by £17,000 Culnagechan Lazio (Photos of Phoenix Below)
Twilight's Granddam Culnagechan Liberty
- Crowned Overall National Limousin Champion 2019
- Won Best Overall Limousin Show Champion of the Year 2019
- 1st in her Class, Cow with Calf (Rathkeeland Phoenix) at Foot Balmoral Show 2019
- Sired by £14,000 Haltcliffe Underwriter
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Rathkeeland Tigeress Lot 28
Exceptional muscle, long, well proportioned, good bone structure, great width throughout, top line/plates
Sired by Gunnerfleet Lion new popular sire
Dam Rathkeeland Joyce sired by Sauvignon won best European Limousin Paris Show
Rathkeeland Tigeress sire Gunnerfleet Lion was sold at Carlisle in February 2017 for 22000gns. Lion is sired by Gunnerfleet Hicks out of Gunnerfleet Ilocks.
Rathkeeland Tigeress Gs SAUVIGNON was a prolific champion bull, winning major shows in the United Kingdom before being crowned European Champion at the Paris Show in 2007.
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Rathkeeland Tangerine Lot 25a
Long growthy heifer well make a good broad cow, stylish from an easy calving sire and dam line.
Tangerine is a half sister to Rathkeeland Premier won best cow N.I Limousin National Show, Antrim show last month.
Sired by multi-award winning stock bull Haltcliffe Nijinsky by Ampertaine Elgin, who has sired excellent, milky, easy calving daughters in the herd.
Rathkeeland Tangerines Sire: HALTCLIFFE NIJINSKY, an Ampertaine Elgin son who is a proven female breeder, sold £32k in Carlisle, his half sister Wilodge Poshspice sold record breaking £250k Carlisle. NIJINSKY was unbeaten in his class in throughout the 2019 show season. NIJINSKY won 10 firsts, 4 Overall Limousin championships, 4 reserve Championships 3 interbreed champions, 2 reserve Interbreed Championships. NIJINSKY helped the Rathkeeland Herd win show team of year 2019 which the herd won over 19 times.
Rathkeeland Tangerine is half sister to a Nijinsky Daughter, Rathkeeland Premier, who won best cow N.I Limousin National Show, Antrim show last month
Rathkeeland Tangerine GS SYLVANDENE DEFOE, a Mas Du Clo son, has been used extensively throughout the herd. With a beef rating of 45, in the top 10% of the breed with an accuracy of 91%. His Dam is a Sauvignon Daughter.
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Rathkeeland Tamsin Lot 30
Stylish showy young heifer, clean bodied and oozes style with muscle in all the right places
Sire Ironstone Gandi by £50,000 Balia Umandy
"Dam Erne Intel by French cow called Tour one of the best headed females I have ever seen, her uniqueness comes threw in her progeny every time."
Stephen Crawford
Rathkeeland Tamsins sire: IRONESTONE GANDI is the Rathkeeland Herd senior stock bull. GANDI carries an unbelievable pedigree with figures to match beef value 46, top 10%. All calving figures in top 10% & 25% of the breed. His Sire Wilodge Vantastic sold for £45k. GANDI’S dam Bailea Umandy sold for £55k, who is sired by highly regarded muscly bull Requin. Ironestone Gandi breed heifers sold for £9,000 and bulls to £10,000.
Gs SAUVIGNON was a prolific champion bull, winning major shows in the United Kingdom before being crowned European Champion at the Paris Show in 2007.
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Rathkeeland Telsa Lot 39
Won Limousin champion & Interbreed Champion Limavady Show 2023, the only time showed.
Telsa has Sauvignon x Gunnerfleet Lion in her breeding. Telsa is a stylish young lady, very evenly proportioned, who owns the ring when she walks in, "in my opinion has a lot of potential as a show heifer"
Stephen Crawford
Rathkeeland Telsa sire Gunnerfleet Lion was sold at Carlisle in February 2017 for 22000gns. Lion is sired by Gunnerfleet Hicks out of Gunnerfleet Ilocks.
Gs SAUVIGNON was a prolific champion bull, winning major shows in the United Kingdom before being crowned European Champion at the Paris Show in 2007.
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