Beautiful, HOT, North Carolina
I arrived this afternoon to a balmy 89 degrees, with 87% relative humidity, and from what I’ve heard in the barns, it’s been this way all week. But the weather hasn’t stopped preparations for tomorrow’s Knight at Kingsmill Sale and Saturday’s Southern Parade of Stars!
Lot 1 – Dunns-Pride GDN Chiptole-ET *TV, the 9/07 Goldwyn from Lylehaven Crissy-ET *CV (2E-94, DOM) Chiptole is due 12/09 to Laurin and is the only *TV Goldwyn daughter of Crissy. She has a full brother at Select and two other maternal brothers in A.I. Her numbers are fabulous at PTPI +1950M PTA +889M +54F +38P +2.9PL +3.62T. Other family history – a full sister was the HHM Junior All-American Winter Yearling in 2008 (Dunns-Pride GDWN Caynenne-ET), and three matern sisters include an EX-90 Gibson, a VG-87, 2y Roy and a Blitz heifer who was Res. All-PA and Res. Junior All-PA Fall Yearling in 2008.
A beautiful 1/09 Debonair from Tri-Day Ashlyn-ET (2E-96, GMD-DOM), the All-Time All-American 4-Year-Old, All-World, 2x All-American and All-Canadian! Ashlyn already has 22EX and 20VG offspring.
Another exciting lot on the sale is Lot 43 – Erinwood Roy Rae. She is due any day to Goldwyn and her calf will sell if it’s a female. Rae is a Roy daughter of Gloryland Lucinda Rae-ET (VG-87), a full sister to the famed Gloryland Liberty Rae (EX-92). Roy Rae has all the size, frame and power you’ve come to expect from this family, as well as numbers of PTPI +1440M and +3.01PTAT.
The sale kicks off tomorrow at 1pm at the North Carolina Fairgrounds. A complete catalog can be found by clicking on http://www.holsteinworld.com/catalogs09/Kingsmill/.
Tomorrow’s schedule also includes an Open House at Kingsmill II and Kingsmill DCF from 7am to 11am.
The Southern Parade of Stars Show, sponsored by the North Carolina Holstein Association, begins Saturday at 8:30am with the Junior Member Showmanship Contest (judge, Clair Burdette), followed at 10am by the show (judge, Justin Burdette).
