The Farmers Mart Oct/Nov 2013 - Issue 30 | Page 52

BREEDING

MILLBROW ELAINE TOPS CARLISLE
BREEDERS’ SALE AT 8000GNS
Millbrow Elaine, a December 2009-born Ionesco daughter out of
Millbrow Crystal, from George and Pat Long, Ambleside, Cumbria
stole the show when taking the top price of 9,000gns at the Breeders’
Sale at Carlisle featuring seven pedigree Limousin herds.
She sold with her Wilodge
Cerberus heifer calf at
foot to an undisclosed
buyer.
Top call from Stephen &
Helen Illingworth, Howgillside,
Eaglesfield, Lockerbie was
the 8000gns paid for the
January 2013 born embryo
calf Glenrock Icemaiden.
Icemaiden is full of breeding
being by the AI sire Goldies
Comet and out of the cow
Glenrock Spangle who is
noted by the Illingworths as
being “the best breeding cow

in the herd”. The purchaser
was Charlie Boden for his
Stockport based Sportsmans
herd.
The Illingworths’ also
made 5000gns when selling
the Rocky sired Glenrock
Cancan. October 2007
born, Cancan is out of
Glenrock Victoria and was
sold with her third calf at
foot, the heifer calf Glenrock
Hyacinth. The buyer was
the Firm of James Hunter
who run the Hallrig herd at
Tarbolton, Ayrshire.

Millbrow Elaine and calf Millbrow Iona 9000gns

HORSE CHARITY NEEDS YOUR HELP
As 7,000 horses in Britain are
deemed at risk of needing rescue
or new homes, the charity World
Horse Welfare has launched an
initiative to help horse owners
understand the impacts, costs and
risks associated with breeding.
This initiative came in light of
research conducted by the charity
showing that collectively, twice as
many foals were produced by those
who had bred only one to five foals in
their lifetime than by those who had
bred over 100 each.
“The results are truly surprising,” says
Roly Owers, Chief Executive of World
Horse Welfare.
“Professional breeders, dealers and
the racing industry are often blamed
for producing too many horses, and
while this may be true, the numbers
appear to be reducing in line with the
current market. Evidence suggests that
in racing alone numbers have reduced
by 25%.”

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“With these bigger players, you would
think that those who produce just one
foal, or a couple in their lifetimes, aren’t
making an impact. But our research
shows that this just isn’t the case – each
horse owner makes an impact and we
hope our initiative will help guide them
through the considerations of breeding in
a compassionate, realistic and informative
way.

“No matter what steps you take to
produce a healthy foal, it is always
possible that he or she could be born
with or develop, a problem. Even a top
quality mare and stallion can produce a
foal with conformational, developmental
or behavioural problems. Horses are
the same as anything else in that the
more there are, the less money they
sell - this often leads to unscrupulous
people taking advantage of the
situation.”
You can now rehome youngsters from
World Horse Welfare and bring them
on yourselves. If you don’t gel, then
World Horse Welfare will take him or
her back again.
The charity asks farmers to consider
rehoming one of World Horse
Welfare’s horses, to help to ease horse
suffering around the UK.
Visit www.worldhorsewelfare.org/
rehoming to find out if this is right
for you.

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