{"id":483707,"date":"2026-06-18T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483707\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:31:40","slug":"marlborough-angus-bull-sets-new-national-record-with-168000-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483707\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlborough Angus bull sets new national record with $168,000 sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taimate stud owner and breeder Paul Hickman credits his wife, Nadine, and team behind the scenes, and admits the celebrations went well into the early hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot too many hours on the pillow, you might say,\u201d Hickman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud; you couldn\u2019t overstate it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was just an outstandingly good bull in every way you could possibly think of an animal.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom his pedigree to his performance on paper, that was exceptional like nothing before him, and then in the pens and in the paddock he was just an exceptionally all-round bull.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 850kg sire is headed to a renowned stud which Hickman said is a huge achievement.<\/p>\n

The successful buyer was Gisborne\u2019s Tangihau Stud owner Dean McHardy who travelled from the East Coast to bid for the prized bull.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere might have been 300-odd people there,\u201d McHardy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were people outside who couldn\u2019t get into the room because there was such a good line-up of bulls.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommercial bulls and stud, these bulls were just rocketing away.\u201d<\/p>\n

McHardy joked he\u2019d hoped the bidding might stop a little sooner. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because he relinquished his own national price record, set last year when Tangihau Angus U418 sold for $161,000<\/a> during the East Coast bull sales week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis particular bull has unbelievable data,\u201d McHardy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to really blend in well with the Tangihau programme. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a stud bull so we were pretty keen to secure him, so that\u2019s where he ended up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI slowed down at the end hoping it was going to stop before that point [before the record was taken], but that\u2019s the value of the bull. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s made a record, and I\u2019m happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He flew back home to Gisborne to get his own operation shipshape in time for their own sale on Monday.<\/p>\n

And does he have a sire to rival the one he\u2019s just bought?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe East Coast sales are next week starting on Monday, so maybe the record will go again,\u201d McHardy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s up to the public to work out if they\u2019re good enough. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a good sort of line-up of bulls, and there are a few stud bulls in them. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know what price they will reach, but you need two studs bidding on them to get the high prices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taimate stud owner and breeder Paul Hickman credits his wife, Nadine, and team behind the scenes, and admits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[242872,21149,22947,138,16256,83727,3556,117,111,139,69,37250,1974,1133,1973,102],"class_list":["post-483707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-242872","tag-angus","tag-bull","tag-business","tag-marlborough","tag-miles","tag-national","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-penny","tag-record","tag-sale","tag-sets","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}