High steaks: British cow ‘Posh Spice’ sells for world record Published on Share
A cow bred in central England has sold for £262,000 ($358,000, 299,000 euros), a world best for its breed and more than double the British and European records.
The world-beating bovine named after Posh Spice from the 1990s pop group the Spice Girls sold last Friday, the British Limousin Cattle Society said.
The Limousin heifer from Shropshire, whose full name is Wilodge Poshspice, comes from a line of record holders.
The pedigree cow’s mother, Milbrook Gingerspice also named after a Spice Girl was the previous UK and European record holder following a 2014 sale.
High Steaks: British Cow Posh Spice Sells For World Record
02/04/21 AT 1:38 PM
A cow bred in central England has sold for ?262,000 ($358,000, 299,000 euros), a world best for its breed and more than double the British and European records.
The world-beating bovine named after Posh Spice from the 1990s pop group the Spice Girls sold last Friday, the British Limousin Cattle Society said.
The Limousin heifer from Shropshire, whose full name is Wilodge Poshspice, comes from a line of record holders.
The pedigree cow s mother, Milbrook Gingerspice also named after a Spice Girl was the previous UK and European record holder following a 2014 sale.
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World beater: New World Record priced heifer A NEW world record price of 250,000gns has been paid for a Limousin heifer at a joint herd sale at Carlisle. The November-2019 born Wilodge Poshspice, from Shropshire breeders Christine Williams and Paul Tippetts, smashed the previous record for 125,000gn when she sold at Harrison and Hetherington’s Borderway Mart in Carlisle. Doubling the previous record of 125,000gns paid for Glenrock Illusion at the Illingworth s Glenrock dispersal in 2014 at Carlisle, Poshspice sold in a two-way split to Messrs Jenkinson, buying for the Whinfellpark herd from Penrith, and Charlie Boden of the Sportsmans herd from Stockport.
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