A HighPark is a Highland-coated animal carrying a white body with dark points on ears, muzzle, eyes and feet. They're uncommon here, they photograph like a storybook, and they are exactly as friendly as they look.
Take a Scottish Highland — long double coat, sweeping horns, famously calm. Cross it with an animal carrying the pointed pattern: a white body with black, red or dun pigment concentrated on the ears, muzzle, eyes and feet. What you get is a shaggy, horned animal in a white coat with dark points. That pattern is what the name HighPark describes.
Overseas the pattern comes from White Park cattle. White Parks are scarce in Australia, so here it usually arrives via a White Galloway, a British White, or a Speckle Park carrying that breed's white park colour pattern — all of which pass the points on to a Highland cross. There is no HighPark association in Australia and no herd book, so we state the actual breeding behind every animal on its own profile. The name describes the look; the profile tells you exactly how it was made. Ours are Highland over Galloway, never White Park. We use the Galloway because it holds a moderate frame and a proper double coat where a bigger, slicker-coated breed would give us neither — and a moderate frame is what we breed for.
HighPark is a composite breed with an overseas registry rather than a long-established Australian society, so registration and paperwork work differently to our Highlands. We'll always tell you exactly what an animal is — the cross, the generation, and what documentation comes with it.
If you're buying for a registered breeding program rather than for the paddock, ask us first and we'll tell you honestly whether a HighPark fits. There is no Australian herd book for HighParks, so these are unregistered crossbred cattle and we won't dress that up as anything else. What you get instead is the full breeding behind each animal, stated plainly, so you know exactly what you are buying.
We breed very few HighParks a year. The VIP waitlist is how people hear first, and it costs nothing to be on it.