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LOT1 - Glenanthony Tundra 299AT14E
An excellent
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sire. Great depth, thickness and softness. An extremely quiet bull who has inherited his father's outstanding beef qualities.
BW 49Kg WW 489Kg YW 564Kg R2 824Kg
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LOT2 - Glenanthony Telstar 299AT81
A lovely smooth
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bull. An excellent shoulder and great neck extension means easy calving. Great temperament and excellent serving vigour and capacity.
BW 49Kg WW 367Kg YW 524Kg R2 800Kg
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LOT3 - Glenanthony U.B.40 299 AU13
A really soft yearling bull with good thickness and great depth of barrel and hind quarters. This bull has great stud potential. Look at his really good feet and legs and his excellent temperament.
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LOT4 - Glenanthony Utrecht 299 AU9
A real stud sire. Utrecht is an excellent yearling showing thickness, softness and style. A great temperament, great bone and good feet and legs and a lower than average EBV for B.W. complete this stud package. Your opportunity to acquire Yardstick genetics for your Stud.
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LOT5 - Glenanthony Tobago. 299AT26
A verry well balanced bull with great length and thickness. Look at his smooth shoulder and neck extension.
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LOT6 - Glenanthony Talisman 299AT66
A well fleshed bull with that extra bit of stretch and frame size. Excellent temperament and good smooth shoulder.
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LOT7 - Glenanthony Thunder 299AT87
An excellent hill country sire. He shows a rugged muscle pattern, is alert and upstanding. Great strength and power.
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LOT8 - Glenanthony Taggett 299AT85
A lovely long bull with plenty of stretch and substance. A good shoulder will help the bigger calves at birth. Use over mature cows for big growthy weaners.
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LOT9 - Glenanthony Trojan 299AT40
A well balanced solid bull with length and strength. Trojan stands up well and has a good shoulder and good birth weight statistics for easy calving.
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LOT10 - Glenanthony Trident 299AT39
A deep bodied early maturing prospective stud bull. Trident has an exceptional temperament and good carcass quality. Look at those growth figures.
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LOT11 - Glenanthony Texas 299AT44
A really smooth early maturing bull. Texas has great thickness across the hind quarters, an excellent muscle pattern and carcass quality. A real meat machine.
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LOT12 Glenanthony T. Square 299AT42E
A rugged blond bull with great thicknessright through. He should be used on mature cows only. What a powerful young sire.
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LOT13 - Glenanthony Trader 299AT35E
An upstanding blond bull with a good muscle pattern. Note the thickness and depth in his hind quarter. Look at his smooth shoulder and birthweight credentials - an easy calving sire.
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LOT14 - Glenanthony Talent Polled 299AT64
A good framed Polled bull with lengthand size. He has a good smooth shoulder and a great temperament.
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LOT15 - Glen anthony Tasman 299AT70
Another docile Yardstick son. Tasman has stretch and great smoothness through his neck and shoulder. His growth figures are in the top 10% and he carries the Polled gene.
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LOT16 - Glenanthony Turbo 299AT30
A rugged bull with a character all his own. Turbo has easy calving birthweight statistics but is a bit heavy in the shoulders so should be used with caution over smaller cows.
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LOT17 - Glenanthony Timberjack 299AT45
A powerful dark red bull with frame and substance. This bull has great bone and a good well set in shoulder.
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LOT18 - Glenanthony Target. 299AT67
Another powerful dark red Morgan son with stretch and size and a smooth muscle pattern. Will grow out to be a good hill country type.
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LOT19 - GlenanthonyTullamore 299AT65
A medium framed bull with length and style. He has a smooth shoulder, good neck extension and low birthweight stats. Will be safe on well gron heifers and smaller cows.
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LOT20 - Glenanthony Triton 299AT36
Another red son of Morgan. Triton has a medium frame good muscle expression and good feet and legs.
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LOT21 - Glenanthony Triumph 299AT72
An early maturing bull with a medium frame. He displays good thickness and softness throughout with a very smooth muscle pattern.
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LOT22- Glenanthony Tobago 299AT25T
A very docile bull with a medium frame score and early maturing carcass qualities - look at his softness of muscling. Great colour too.
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LOT23 - Glenanthony Tyrone -Polled 299AT88
Good temperament, easy calving and great milk figure. Another easy calving Newry son OK for heifer mating. Old Tralee's influence alive and well.
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LOT 24 - Glenanthony Top Not Polled 299AT80
A really low birthweight easy calving sire with bonus polled gene. Ideal for heifer mating or use over small cows. A good muscle pattern and above average growth traits.
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LOT25 - Glenanthony Tiberius Polled 299AT57
An early maturing polled bull with some excellent growth satstistics. For a medium framed bull he has an excellent muscle pattern, smooth and soft throughout.
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LOT26 - Glenanthony Trilby 299AT37
What price the 2007 drought? Very rare for GlenAnthony to have yearling weights below 400kg. Trilby has grown at an average of 1.1kg since August 2007. He presents a smooth structure with softness and easy calving conformation.
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LOT27 - Glenanthony Toughy 299AT10
An early maturing bull with easy calving credentials. Toughy has been use successfully in service and has proved his toughness in difficult circumstances. He displays good muscling plus extra scale and size.
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LOT28 - Glenanthony Tuxedo 0299AT0122 polled
A late calf, lovely smooth shoulder, good neck extension and aclean plooed.
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LOT29 - Glenanthony Trooper 0299AT0104
A medium framed young sire with good depth of body and early maturing conformation.
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MONREID YARDSTICK (2003) AUAPAPY001
Purchased from Rory and Pat Murphy of Nundle New South Wales - Yardstick was imported into New Zealand in July 2005. He was selected for his magnificent carcass qualities, showing thickness and softness throughout, his soundness of feet and legs, his lovely kind eye and excellent temperament. We are thrilled with Yardsticks progeny both in our own stud and in other studs where his semen has been used. For example his progeny were placed 1st 2nd and 3rd in all breeds bull calf and yearling heifer classes at this years Best of Beef Fielding show. At the Royal Easter Show in Auckland his progeny won the all breeds: bull calf, yearling heifer, and yearling bull classes. Tundra the champion yearling bull was runner up in the Meat and Wool Cup at Auckland and is Lot 1 in our sale. There is no doubt that Yardstick has left his stamp on his offspring as shown by their colour, facial features, great temperaments, and the thickness and softness of their muscle patterns.
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GLENANTHONY SERGEANT PEPPER (1993) 0299AC0027 Sargent Pepper is now a "household name" He has sired over 300 recorded stud calves throughout Australia and New Zealand. His growth figures are exceptional, and his daughters are developing great milk production figures. His sons have great bone and excellent carcass qualities. Overall a sire performance to be proud of.
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GLENANTHONY JESTER (1999) 0299AJ0044
A big stretchy son of Glenanthony Cascade, Jester was sold to Dave Keown of Raes Junction in Otago. Two young bulls from a flush with Glenanthony Zoe are included in this sale. A great combination of growth and quality.
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GLENANTHONY HYATT (1998) 0299AH0011
Purchased as an embryo Hyatt has grown into a big bull with tremendus volume thickness and scale. He has a good shoulder and neck extension which explains why he has proven to be easy calving in our herd inspite of his relatively high EBV for birthweight. Now 10 years old, Hyatt is still a sound bull and is still a trait leader for 200, 400, 600 day growth and milk.
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GLENANTHONY MORGAN (2002) 0299AM0041
An early maturing dark red bull, who was sold to Andrew Tweedie at ou 2004 sale. Because he is a grandson of Scottish Striker we retained semen for use in our herd. We soon found that Morgan produced low birthweight calves, and so has been used regularly over 1st calving heifers with great success. His sons in this sale are noted for their dark plum red colour.
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GLENANTHONY NEWRY (2003) 0299AN0035
A medium boned smooth young sire. Newry is the best Tralee son we have bred and like his father is proving to be an excellent easy calving sire. Unlike Tralee, Newry has above average growth figures and is passing these on to his progeny.
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ABOUT THE GLENANTHONY SIMMENTAL STUD
It was while traveling through Europe in the late 1960’s that Tony and Glennis Thompson first sighted Simmental cattle in Switzerland, Austria and Bavaria.
On returning to New Zealand the Thompson’s settled initially in the Waikato where Tony began his professional career as a Veterinarian. There they farmed a small property and first registered the Glen Anthony Simmental herd No 299 in 1973 with a handful of crossbred cows and one imported purebred cow “Woolston’s Fasan”.
In 1974 Tony and Glennis relocated to Waipukurau in Central Hawke’s Bay where Tony joined a thriving Veterinary Practice and with Glennis set about replacing the crossbred herd with Purebred Simmental cows. These were mainly from the German Fleckvich breed of Simmentals. They included Glen Anthony Excel (by the great Hax) and Peastons Flora from the direct German importation of 1974 as well as cows such as Ballacosilley Gertrud, Glenturk Anna and Sundowner Raches Emmaline (to name a few) originally imported from the British Isles and acquired by Glen Anthony at dispersal sales here in New Zealand.
Initially the Glen Anthony stud was established on 230 acres (96ha) of rolling country eight kilometers east of Waipukurau. Here, the purebred herd had expanded to sixty cows by the late 1980’s. Excel’s son by Canadian Extra had topped the first North Island National sale at $2,500 and Gertrud’s son Newry topped the 1984 National at $17,000. It is amazing that it has taken a further 20 years for the stud to regain those “dizzy heights” with Glen Anthony Morven selling for the top auction price of $16,000 in 2004. Over those twenty years the stud has expanded to 500 acres and 120 to 140 breeding cows including 20 to 40 recipients carrying embryo transplant calves. Sires such as Dunmore Hansa, BBA Galant and Great Guns Ferdinand have played a significant role in the studs development along with the use of homebred bulls such as Aristocrat, Sargent Pepper and Guiness who have all been bred from the families originating from those foundation Fleckvich cows.
Glen Anthony has built up a reputation for breeding good framed cattle with plenty of fleshing. Low birth weights are not selected for. “Calving ease” is the main selection criteria. The stud aims to breed big females capable of easily calving up to 50kg calves if necessary. Sale bulls are scanned and ranked for overall muscle development by the Falkirk Index system.
Glen Anthony clients have built an enviable record in the commercial scene. Crossbred cattle from Glen Anthony bulls regularly top the weaner and yearling sales throughout New Zealand with Graham Williamson of Wairoa topping $1000 per head for weaner steers in 2002. Glen Anthony themselves topped the weaner market this year (2005) with cull stud weaner bulls selling for $755 or $2.35 per kilo.
Glen Anthony also has a reputation second to none in the show ring. They have been competing at A&P shows since 1978 and have built a tremendous record not only for their success but also for their willingness to support the A& P movement and promote the Simmental Breed by regularly showing a big team of up to 20 cattle. In New Zealand the major award for the supreme champion of all breeds is the Meat and Wool Cup. Glen Anthony over the last 15 years has probably won more of these awards at major shows than most other studs. For Glennis and Tony it is their weekend “pastime”.
“Sure beats the hell out of fishing!”
In April 2004 while on tour with the Simmental Society in Australia we saw a quality cow and calf at Rory and Patricia Murphy's Simmental Stud at Nundle just south of Tamworth N.S.W.
We thought a lot of the bull calf and indicated our interest to the Murphy's during the winter. He grew on very nicely and although November born reached 920kg liveweight by 16 months of age - Easter 2005. He went to the Sydney Royal Easter Show where he won Supreme Simmental Exhibit of the Show. Because of popular demand in Australia he was put up for sale. Tony traveled to Nundle in April that year and checked him out. He looked great. Plenty of width with muscularity. A great back line and well developed hind quarter. Plenty of softness, soundness and character.
The rest is history GlenAnthony purchased Yardstick and he arrived safely in New Zealand in July 2005 and quickly settled in to the Glen Anthony routine. He is so even tempered - nothing ruffles him. A lovely kind eye, a quiet nature, excellent confirmation and beef qualities to die for. At 2 1/2 years of age he weighed in excess of 1200kg and stood 60cm at the hips. He has uniform thickness right through, scanning 144 sqcm for EMA with great depth and width in his hind quarters. He has that special softness that is associated with carcass quality yet scans only 5mm of fat over the rib and rump area.
In the show ring he was unbeaten in 2005 and 2006 winning Meat & Wool Cups at the New Zealand Royal at Hamilton in November 05, the Best of Beef at Feilding in March 2006 the Auckland Royal Easter Show 2006 and the N Z Royal in Christchurch in Nov. 2006. As well as this he was judged supreme exhibit of all stock entered, including dairy, pigs, sheep, alpacas and horses at the N.Z. Royal 2005, the Auckland Royal Easter Show 2006, the N.Z.Royal 2006 and again at the Royal Easter Show 2007, an amazing achievement.
From Glen Anthony's viewpoint success was enjoyable but the most satisfying aspect of showing was the way the beef experts accepted and commented on Yardstick's beef qualities and conformation. The complimentary comments of breed judges, breeders from other breeds and commercial people alike were encouraging and very much appreciated. Yardsticks progeny have proven to be all we expected. They have good temperaments, their fathers kind eye and facial markings and excellent carcass qualities. Already they have impressed our peers who have stood as cattle judges at the 2008 Autumn shows. Yardstick progeny from three different studs have dominated allbreeds calf and yearling classes at Feilding Best of Beef 2008 and the Auckland Royal Easter Show 2008. Glen Anthony Tundra won both yearling bull classes and was runner up in the Meat and Wool Cup at the Auckland Royal Easter Show.
Yardstick is already a Trans Tasman trait leader for the three growth traits and is definately making his mark on the Simmental breed in Australia and New Zealand.
location:
825 Farm Road, Waipukurau
