GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - The 8th Summit Wildlife Game Auction, in association with the Octofin group, took place at the Drostdy Hotel in Graaff-Reinet on Saturday 23 September.
The auction is one of the premier auctions in the Eastern Cape and had a turnover of R10-million this year.
The weekend started on Friday 22 September with a golf day at the Graaff-Reinet Golf Club, with 76 players and an evening function where
R130 000 was raised for local charities in Graaff-Reinet, Aberdeen and Jansenville.
The auction kicked off at 11:00 the next day with four charity lots, which raised a total of R200 000.
Neil Dodds, chairperson of Summit Wildlife, says raising money for local charities is one of their main goals.
The esteemed world-renowned auctioneer, Brandon Leer, was responsible for the lots, with approximately 250 people in attendance. People from as far as Limpopo and the Western Cape attended the auction. Although most were floor bidders, there was also an online platform for buyers.
Dodds says the highlight of the auction was the high quality of animals on auction, especially oryx and springbok, which he says were certainly fantastic.
The top lots were a springbok ram that went for R300 000, a springbok ewe which delivered a record price of R170 000, an oryx cow that sold for R95 000, a buffalo bull that made R340 000 and a Royal wildebeest that sold for R750 000.
Some of the floor bidders at the Summit Auction on Saturday 23 September.
The Summit Wildlife team.
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