BEN LOMOND STUD
SALE REALISES 10,000 GUINEAS. A RECORD FOR NEW ZEALAND. (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, Oct. 20. To-day marked the closing chapter in the history of one of New Zealand**] greatest beef cattle studs, when over 10,000 guineas was totalled for Mr Robert Bell’s Ben Lomond AberdeenAngus. stud. Australian bidders contended xfor many of the picked animals, and secured two of the champions— Olaf of Ben Lomond (Royal champion), and Rex of Ben Lomond (1924 Hastings champion), at 230 guineas. The sensation of the day, however, was the sale of the yearling, Turk of Ben Lomond, at 220 guineas, to G. Ward’s station. Fifty-six two-year-old bulls averaged 44| guineas, and 47 yearlings, 33| guineas. The sale is held to be a record for the Dominion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19434, 21 October 1925, Page 9
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