The magnificent horns of the Salers are impractical in modern farming systems, and for over ten years, we have been running a
specific breeding program to produce polled Salers, based on fullblood poll genetics imported from North America.
Rigel Othello
Poll ET, one of our current stock bulls, is by KK Polled Express, and in addition to producing outstanding calves, has had a
successful show career, winning Male Champion twice at the Great Yorkshire Show. Othello calves have found great success in
the UK, taking top prices at breed sales and twice winning the Premier Sale Championship, most recently in 2007 with the black
polled bull, Rigel Heston Poll.
Othello progeny have been exported to Germany and France (as the foundation stock for polled
Salers there).
To promote the Salers breed, we have been showing our cattle since 1995,
and Rigel bred cattle have won the Supreme Championship at the major shows on many occasions. Rigel Cordelia was the Overall Beef
Interbreed Champion at the Royal Lancashire Show in 1997, and remains the only Salers female to have ever won a major interbreed competition
in the UK. Cordelia's sire Bruno was the first Salers to win a major Beef Interbreed Championship, back in 1989. Ten years
on, Cordelia's grand-daughter, Rigel Mithril (by Sagitaire) was Supreme Champion Salers at the Great Yorkshire Show in 2007.
She went on to achieve the top price of 3700 guineas at the Salers Society Premier Sale in November 2007.
In
2008 another Sagitaire heifer topped the female trade at the Premier Sale, when Rigel Colleen was sold for 3350 gns.
In
2009 Sagitaire progeny topped the Salers Society Spring Sale at 5000 gns for Rigel Peregrine, and topped the female trade at the Spring
Perth Bull Sale (Rigel Amelie at 2000 gns) and again at the Autumn Perth (Rigel Lolita at 3000 gns)
