Rocky Brahman Week day three: bull equals red Brahman sale record at CQLX
Bidding didn't slow down on the last day of Rockhampton Brahman Week at CQLX on Wednesday, October 7, with the top-priced red Brahman bull equalling the sale record for red Brahmans.
My Ee C Gilgai, offered by Chantel Martin through her parents, Barb and Greg Lines' stud, My Ee Red Brahmans, South Kolan, Bundaberg, sold for $200,000 to Lee and Gillian Collins, Wandilla, Maryborough, equalling the amount set by Taroom stud Fairy Springs in 2022.
Gilgai fell just short of the overall sale record of $210,000, equalled on day two of the sale by the top-priced grey bull.
The 25-month-old, 974 kilogram homozygous polled bull, sired by Tarramba King Pin 4661 and out of My Ee Brandy, recorded 11 millimetres of rump fat, 9mm of rib fat, an eye muscle area of 151 square centimetres, 6 per cent of intramuscular fat, and a scrotal circumference of 36.5cm.
Continuing from the impressive precedent set by the early red run on October 6, day three concluded with a $14,775 average, and a $3,383,500 gross.
Overall, the red bulls concluded the 2026 sale with 292/304 lots sold for a 96pc clearance and a $14,566 average.
In the grey results read out ringside on day two of the sale, 412 of all 415 bulls offered sold for a 99 per cent clearance, a $13,208 average, and a $5,442,000 gross.
Additional lots sold post-sale and agents announced a 100 per cent clearance for greys by Wednesday afternoon.
Overall, the 2026 Rockhampton Brahman Week sale concluded with 708/720 bulls sold, a 98pc clearance, for a $13,721 average and a $9,714,468 gross.
It was a substantial improvement from last year's sale, which finished with 712 of 759 bulls sold, a 94pc clearance, for an $11,540 average, and an $8.22 million gross.
Buyers of the top-priced red lot, Lee and Gillian Collins, Wandilla Brahmans, Maryborough, said the bull had a presence about him they just couldn't look past.
"He's a sire. He's got outstanding fleshing, thickness, and length. He's very well balanced with almost even fat cover," Mr Collins said. "The bull has a presence about him and his mobility caught my eye."
Mr Collins has attended every Brahman Week sale since its inception, and said he'd be turning out My Ee C Gilgai for stud duties upon getting him home.
While the Wandilla stud herd is horned, Mr Collins said the quality of the bull couldn't be overlooked.
"I said if ever I saw a polled bull as good as a horned bull, I'd buy him, and that's him," he said.
The sale was the best price the My Ee Red Brahmans stud principals Barb and Greg Lines had ever achieved, made all the more worthwhile by the bull's challenging arrival as a calf.
"Over the moon I am. I am so, so happy to sell a bull for such a good price as small vendors," Mr Lines said.
"He was out of a first calf heifer. They can be a bit silly, and of course they take a bit longer to calve than a cow," Ms Lines said.
"We were home late, it was dark already, and I said to Greg I probably need to find that heifer to see if she's calved or not.
"So, I went and found her on a creek bank. It was only a slight incline, but she'd got her feet up, and she couldn't up herself.
"She'd calved in a muddy, half-full waterhole, but it was August and still cold, and here's this poor little wet thing in the water.
"Thank God he had the sense to stay right against the bank, or would have been well and truly drowned and we would never have had him."
The Lines said they knew the bull was special, but they couldn't believe how well he'd performed at the sale.
"We always believed he was something special, but you just never know what's going to happen on the day," Ms Lines said.
"As he developed through his life, you could see he was just getting better and better," Mr Lines added.
Read the day three vendor averages here.
- Selling agents: Nutrien, Elders, and GDL, interfaced with Stocklive
