A NEW Beef Shorthorn breed record price was set in a private deal at the Royal Highland Show, last week.

After winning the female championship, with Chapelton Duchess, a cow imported as an embryo from Canada, Donald Biggar, Grange, Castle Douglas, went on to sell her son, Chapelton Covenanter, for £16,000 – eclipsing the previous top breed price of 14,500gns, set in 1946.
A son of Chapelton Typhoon, Covenanter is a maternal brother of Chapelton Braveheart, the bull Mr Biggar sold for 13,000gns at Stirling in February.
Picked out as reserve junior champion at the show, he sold to fellow Ingliston exhibitors LEP Farms, run by Syd Chaplin at Little West End Farm, Chidden, Hambledon, Hampshire.
Mr Chaplin had admired the 15-month-old bull at home, before deciding to buy him at the show.
Mr Biggar sold a another young bull, the 14-month-old Chapelton Choctaw, for £7000 to Shetland buyer Eric Graham, from Lerwick. A Cavans Yankee son, he is out of the home-bred Chapelton Cheerleader, a daughter of Blue Ridge Cheerleader.