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COOLAWARRA EASTER CLASSIC AUCTION 2008

Jenny Jackson holds her purchase from the Coolawarra Classic Auction, Coolaroo CoorieÕs Luna with vendor Janie Hicks, of Coolaroo.

With 43 buyers from New Zealand, Canada, UK and most states, the Coolawarra Classic Alpaca Auction hosted by Illawarra and Coolaroo Studs, NSW continued to attract a wide spread of clientele to its annual auction held on Monday at Coolaroo Stud, Mittagong. Hot on the heels of the highly successful World Alpaca Conference and Sydney Royal's largest exhibit in the industry's history discerning buyers paid up to 34,000 with a healthy average of $ 6,120 paid per lot offered with a total sale of $257,000.

The auction, opened by Mr Alonso Burgos from Grupo Inca, Arequipa, Peru the sale was preceeded by a colourful presentation of alpaca fashions presented by the Alpaca Centre Australia.

Top price female Coolaroo Coorie's Luna on behalf of Coolaroo, went to West Australian stud, Banksia Park owned by Jenny and George Jackson. Mrs Jackson, one of Australia's leading judges intends to utilise her genetics for the stud's embryo transfer programme. Top price male, Belbourie Mantra sold for $16,500 and will be exported to Tannis Froese of Winnipeg, Canada sold on the account of Mrs Glenda Salmon, Belbourie Alpaca Stud.

WORKSHOPS COMING UP AT COOLAROO/ILLAWARRA:

Founded in 1987 and located just 1.5 hours south of Sydney in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Coolaroo is home to some 700 Alpacas and the families of Jude & Phil Street and Janie & Aldous Hicks.

With a decade of SRS® breeding and aggressive adoption of Embryo Transfer techniques Coolaroo is renown for their progressive approach and significant investment into research. Annually they share their success and knowledge at their SRS® Breeding Production Workshops with Dr Jim Watts and the annual Easter Classic auction, previously the Coolaroo Classic, now in its 11th year and conducted with Illawarra Alpaca Stud as the Coolawarra Classic, to follow the Sydney Royal Easter Show each year.

Now with up to 5 generations of selective breeding this extraordinary ‘Aussie’ livestock aristocrat, Coolaroo bloodlines have bred championships in foundation alpaca industries as far afield as China, South Africa, Europe and New Zealand, with those clients working ongoing with Coolaroo to draw from the studs expansive resources, know how and service to daughter studs.

Many clients have worked with Coolaroo for over 16 years and such support is highly valued and with them jointly we are able to harness the Advanced breeding techniques to accelerate their genetic gain to ensure their own sales. Consequently there are over 50 alpacas annually born to embryo transfer procedures each year and this will increase.

Please feel free to explore our website or contact us for your own mini introduction workshop where you will examine ‘hands on’ the Coolaroo Alpacas. You will also learn about breeding a viable alpaca at the forefront of this exciting new world industry to breed your own superior stock ensuring future sales.

Enjoy!