Thursday’s regular store cattle sale highlight was 30 Angus heifers which went to Yea’s John Ingham.

The 20-22-month-old March-calving heifers were part of Buckingbong Station dispersal sale saw more than 700 cattle offered among 2900 head at NVLX’s regular store cattle sale.

“Our information yesterday afternoon was we had broken the record for commercial Angus females in Australia,” Jim Hiscock, Brian Unthank Rural, said on Friday.

“The lead two pens of joined heifers made $3060, the old record for commercial joined Angus was about $2700.”

The Angus Association lists a pen of 20 PTIC heifers selling for $2700 at Mortlake in February this year.

Mr Ingram bought 104 breeders to convert his crossbred herd to Angus.

Second calving females sold to $2630 and third calving females sold to $2740.

All cows averaged $2380 while 87 joined heifers averaged $2510 and 166 eight-moths old steers averaged $1240, with the lead 50 making $1350.

The tail end pen of steer calves sold for the highest cents-a-kg price for weighed steers, at up to 463c/kg for 244kg steers or $1130.

All heifers sold to a Wangaratta Landmark account for 423-462c/kg.

Buckingbong has also been a regular sale topper at the summer Wodonga Blue Ribbon weaner sales.

The herd included 175 heifers and 350 weaners and has long been considered one of the best in the Riverina.

“It was certainly a very buoyant sale for an outstanding line of cattle,” Gerard Ryan, Brian Unthank Rural, said.

“The people paying this sort of money are astute buyers and know good quality cattle.

“This was a class herd, it might be a bit over the top but I’d call it a designer herd, that’s what it was.”

The Seidel family sold Buckingbong Station, and Oakdale Station in July for a reported figure of $15 million.

The 4544 hectare Murrumbidgee River property is one of Australia’s oldest pastoral holdings.