Buffalo bullock sold for £2m

Published on 05/09/2012 00:00

A WILD buffalo bullock has been sold at auction in South Africa for a record £2.04 million ($3.25m), the Stud Game Breeders’ Association has said.

Owner Jacques Malan of Lumarie Game Farm said the four years and 1ten-month-old bullock called Horizon has horns measuring nearly 52 inches long.

Mr Malan said he had applied a knowledge of genetics garnered from his father since childhood pursuing an aim “to breed back the old giants of the bush of Africa which have been hunted out over past centuries”.

Horizon will be used for breeding.

The association said it is the most expensive wild animal ever sold in South Africa.