Born Ready Shady, bred on the NSW mid-north coast, sold for $144,000 above his reserve at the Kempsey saleyards on Saturday
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An Australian-bred Speckle Park bull has sold for $150,000, setting a new world record price for sales of that breed.
Born Ready Shady, a solid black Speckle Park bull, bucked a national trend of plunging livestock prices at an auction at the Kempsey saleyards in New South Wales on Saturday. The result stunned Born Ready stud owners Brooke and Andrew Paff, who had set his reserve at just $6,000.
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