• October 2009 - Grangewood William joins Sacombe herd. More >>>
• October 2009 - Introducing Irish bloodlines. More >>>
• August 2009 - Bull sales update. More >>>
• July 2009 - Great Yorkshire Show honours for Perrywood Wispa. More >>>
• July 2009 - Sacombe success at the last Royal Show. More >>>
• May 2009 - Simmental sales remaining strong at Sacombe. More >>>
• May 2009 - First show outing of the year is a huge success for Sacombe. More >>>
• March 2009 -Perrywood Warrior joins Sacombe sire line up. More >>>
• February 2009 - Sacombe breeding winning at Thainstone. More >>>
• January 2009 - Bull sales kick off 2009. More >>>

Adding further to our stock sires line up, Sacombe Simmentals are delighted to announce the arrival of Grangewood William from the Leedham family, Denby. Having stood second in his class, William was bought at the Perth Bull sales in Stirling for 11,000gns. He is a Popes Laird son and is out of the Blackford Falcon daughter Grangewood Sundial. We first admired William at the Royal Show where he stood first in his class. He has a calving ease of +6.7, a terminal sire index of +28 and a self replacing index of +38 and will work alongside our recently acquired junior herd sire Clonagh World Class.

October has been an exciting month already at Sacombe with the purchase of two new bloodlines in to the herd. In the search for a new junior stock bull we took a trip across the water to Garrett and Lyndsey Behan’s major reduction sale of their Clonagh herd. There we bought the striking 11 month old young bull Clonagh World Class for 6600 euro.

World Class is a Kilbride Farm Newry son out of Clonagh Posh-Klowna, who is a daughter of Anatrim Jacob. We were particualry impressed with his growth rate for his age, his correctness and power in his backend. He has been shown successfully on the Irish summer show circuit and will be heading to the Irish National championships before heading over to join the herd.

Clonagh World Class pictured with Garrett at Strokestown show where he stood Male Champion

Clonagh Adorable at 9 months old

To celebrate our 40th anniversary this year, we also decided to introduce some new female bloodlines to the herd, so at the same we bought the 10 month old and incredibly stunning heifer Clonagh Adorable for 3200 euro. Adorable is a daughter of the herd’s power house of a stock bull Banwy T-Rex and is out of the Freighduff Brendan daughter Clonagh Norma.

Adorable is a tall, growth heifer with great style and presence. She has been shown this year on the Irish circuit and took first prizes at Tullamore National Livestock Show, Cappamore and Moate. She is likely to be part of our 2010 show team.      

Sacombe are pleased to announce the sale of some junior bulls sold to both commercial and pedigree producers.

We wish the following buyers a great deal of success with their new bulls and look forward to doing business with them again in the future.

• Neil Shand of the Cairnorrie herd, Ellon, Aberdeenshire bought Sacombe Winston, an April 2008 son of Glenturk Nomad out of Sacombe Nesta-Alfa. 
• Bruce Magretts bought the April 08 son of Glenturk Nomad out of Sacombe Nadia-Justine, Sacombe Westerly as a new stock bull for his newly established pedigree herd.
• Sacombe Washington, a son of Sacombe Nijinsky out of Sacombe Matilda-Kleeb,  was bought by Mark Parrot for his newly established pedigree herd.
• Mr & Mrs Gould of the Huntsmead herd at Fordingbridge, Hampshire, have bought Perrywood Wizard who is by Glentuk Nomad out of Perrywood Mandy.
• Commercial producer Mr Curragh of Oxon has bought Sacombe Woodstock, a may 2008 son of Glenturk Nomad out of Sacombe Lillian-Bouquette. 

We’ve come back from an incredibly successful Great Yorkshire Show and improved on our success from the Royal Show the week before by taking the reserve spot in the female championship with our yearling heifer Perrywood Wispa.

Our three year old cow Sacombe Torry Bouquette also came home with a second rosette and Sacombe Winston took a fourth place in a tough yearling bull class. 

Our next outing will be Edenbridge and Oxted Show towards the end of August – we hope to see you there!

Well it was a pretty bizarre show with a less than dynamic atmosphere, but we enjoyed our last ever Royal Show last week.

We took a small team up to Stoneleigh to take part in the last show and were fortunate to stand second in a tough yearling heifer class with Bridget’s own heifer Perrywood Wispa. This March 2008 born was highly admired as a young calf where she stood champion calf at Edenbridge and Oxted Show. Wispa is by Skerrington Rajah and out of Ranfurly Mame 3^{rd (ET).}

In a tough yearling bull class we stood fifth with Sacombe Winston W25, an April 2008 bull by Glenturk Nomad out of Sacombe Nesta-Alfa. This was the first outing for this bull and is currently offered for sale.

We’re pleased to announce a cracking month in terms of bull sales at Sacombe. This month we have sold Sacombe Victorious, a December 2007 born bull by Glenturk Nomad out of a Milnafua Junior daughter Sacombe Nyree-Fani to Sutton Valence, Kent-based commercial producer Nick Bates.

We have also sold another Nomad son, this time Perrywood Wizard who is out of Perrywood Mandy. Wizard has a calving ease of +1.3 and a milk figure of +7. He heads to the Gould’s’ Huntsmead herd, Fordingbridge, Hampshire.

Breeder Mark Parrott, Essex, came to Sacombe to buy some Belted Galloway cows for another breeder, but also went home with a new addition to the Simmental herd, namely Sacombe Washington, a son of Sacombe Nijinsky out of Sacombe Matilda-Kleeb. 

Herts Show was our first outing for the Sacombe Simmental show team and we were incredibly pleased with the results. It’s always a busy show for us, as we have the Bridget B’s meat stand in the food hall as well, but we were fortunate to pick up a couple of second prize rosettes as well as a first in the pairs class.

We stood 2nd with our 3 year old cow and calf Sacombe Tory Bouquette and 2nd with our yearling heifer Sacombe Willow Bouquette. Our junior bull Perrywood warrior also stood 2nd place with Sacombe Winston coming 4th place.

For the interbreed pairs class, Sacombe Willow Bouquette and Perrywood Wispa joined forces and took a first prize in an incredibly strong class.

In the young handler’s classes, Ben Borlase stood 2nd with Sacombe Amy and Daniel Dawkins stood 6th in an incredibly tough senior class with Perrywood Wispa.