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COOLAWARRA EASTER CLASSIC AUCTION 2008

Coolawarra Easter classic auction
With 43 buyers from New Zealand, Canada, UK and most states, the Coolawarra Classic Alpaca Auction hosted by Illawarra and Coolawarra Studs, NSW continued to attract a wide spread of clientele to its annual auction held on Monday at Coolawarra 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 Coolawarra Coorie's Luna on behalf of Coolawarra, 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.