Hampshire Downs

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RAMSAY PARK HAMPSHIRE STUD SOLD

With exception of this years show team which has been retained for the 2013 Heritage Breed Feature at the Royal Adelaide Show, Ramsay Park Hampshire Down Stud has been sold in it's entirety to John Cordukes and his managers Matt and Heidi Sherwood of the Wollandale Stud, Towrang - NSW. 

The remaining sheep will be sold after the feature in Adelaide.  The Stud and Flock Rams will be for sale at our Annual on property Flock Ram Sale on Friday, 27th September 2013.  The remaining ewes will be for sale privately.  Please contact us for further details.

This will end 28 years of being involved in the Hampshire Down breed.  The decision has been made to concertrate on our black Composite program.

We wish John, Matt & Heidi in their new stud expansion and thank all our clients, both stud and commerical for their support over the years. 

About us

Ramsay Park Hampshire Downs Studs was re-established in 1993 after earlier running a stud in the 1980’s.  The main foundation stock for the re-establishment stud came from the purchase of the Wannon Stud of Peter Groves in Victoria.  Later a number of ewes were purchased at the Burrandool reduction sale in 1996 and also the Marananga stud yearly sale.  Possible the biggest influence on the studs improvement in quality has come from the sires from the New Zealand studs of Toropuke and Teviotdale, used in AI programmes.  These sires have helped “modernize” the type of sheep in the stud , to lift the frame size and also clean the points up.

Ramsay Park has been successfully showing their Hampshires for many years at shows such as the Royal Adelaide , Melbourne Royal and Hamilton Sheepvention as well as many regional show.  Major championships have been won at all these shows, with the highlights being winning the Supreme Champion Breeders Group of Show 3 times, The Padenoster Trophy for the best British Breed Group 4 times and  Supreme Champion Shortwool Ram all at the Royal Adelaide Show against the major breeds in the last 6 years.

Demand for Ramsay Park genetics has seen stock sold throughout Australia to establish new studs and semen exported to Peru and seedstock to produce embryo’s for Argentina.