Angus bull sells for 225k smashing national record leaving breeder gobsmacked
An Australian Angus bull has sold for $225,000 at a stud sale in northern New South Wales, smashing the national record for the breed.
Key points:Fifteen-month-old Texas Iceman R725 was bought buy Salt Ash-based Macka's Australian Black Angus Beef and Genetics Australia.
He was bred by the Mayne family from Texas Angus, near Warialda.
The previous record of $160,000 was held by Paratrooper P15 from Millah Murrah Angus stud, near Bathurst.
Stud principal Wendy Mayne said she was "gobsmacked" when the hammer fell today.
"I'm still shaking," she said.
"Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would do that.
"We knew that people would be interested, but we just didn't know where it would go.
"To have that happen it just makes it all so worthwhile."
Genetics a winnerMrs Mayne said the family had searched the world for the best genetics to add to their breeding program and that the young bull is the progeny of United States sire Poss Maverick.
"We knew Poss Maverick would create interest because he is new genetics," she said.
"He has got a lot of carcass and a lot of phenotype and muscle expression.
"[The record price] has given us a massive tick of approval that our program is doing exactly what we want it to do."
Mrs Mayne said the cattle they were breeding now had been more than two decades in the making.
"Our program is all about the whole line of the beef industry â€" so not just the cow/calf producer … we look at the backgrounder, the feedlots, the processor and at the end the consumer," she said.
"We want everyone to make money."
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