Texels lead the way with a £23,000 top price and an average of £916

Texels commanded the majority of top prices on the day, selling to £23,000 for one from Karen and Allan Wight, Midlock, Crawford.

The Campbell family from Rosebrough, Chathill, Alnwick, earned a top of £9,000 – their best price in 39 years selling at Kelso – for one from their Thrunton pen.

Sired by Forkins Viagra and out of a ewe by the £10,000 Scrogtonhead Powerhouse, this one was knocked down to Jeff Aiken, for the Procters flock at Tatham Hall, Lancaster.

Matching that price, later in the sale, Steven Renwick, Glenrath, Peebles, sold to a top of £9,000 from his Craig Douglas consignment.

His son of Haddo Whisky Galore, out of a ewe by Sportsmans Unbeatable, sold to AE Williams and Son, Folley Bank, Clun.

Also from the Craig Douglas pen was a shearling at £4,800, another by Haddo Whisky Galore, which sold to IHG Warden, Skelfhill, Hawick.

Making his best Kelso price, Iain Minto, Townhead, Dolphinton, sold to £8,000 for his pen number one, a shearling son of the Kelso-bought Scrogton Vulcan, out of a ewe by a Bridgehouse sire.

He went in a two-way split, to Prof Penny, Harehead, Cranshaws, Duns, and Neil Harvey, Blackadder Mains, Duns.

Making £7,000 was the best from Jonathan Watson, Bowsden Moor, the show champion in ring five, by Haymount Vava Voom. He sold up north to John Scott, Fearn Farm, Tain, Easter Ross.

Mr Watson also received £5,800 for a Brackenridge Strongbow-sired shearling, which went to the Loosebeare flock and Nicola Hartwright’s Whitehart flock at Bringsty, Worcestershire.

Meanwhile, in the same ring, Paul Quick, Loosebeare, Crediton, Devon, sold to £6,500, to AE Bell and Son, Kirkton, Hawick. He is by the home-bred Loosebeare Voomer, out of a daughter of Loosebeare Romeo.

The Dunlop family’s Elmscleugh pen from Innerwick, Dunbar, peaked at £6,000, for a son of the £8,000 Milnbank Wisconsin, out of a ewe by Tullagh Saracen, which was knocked down to Peter and Lynn Gray, Cowgrove, Galston.

Top price from Robert Laird’s Cambwell lot from Biggar, was £5,800 for a Cambwell Trademark son which sold to Will Case, for his Nab Point flock at Ulverston, Cumbria.

Making the same money was one from Neil Harvey’s Blackadder pen, a Hartside Utopia son, which was knocked down to JM Carlile, Fowrass Farm, Penrith.

Best for Gordon and David Gray, Ettrick, Selkirk, was £4,800, which they got for a son of Ellen Valley Warlord, selling to M Barnett, Gilside Farm.

The Clark family’s Garngour consignment topped at £4,500, for one by Mossvale Winston, which sold to Kenny Sutherland, Stainland and Sibmister Farms, Thurso.

Best in the lambs was £4,400, for one from Allan Campbell, Strawfrank, Carstairs, a son of the 7,500gn Ballynahone Yorkie, out of a ewe by Tima Valentino, which was knocked down to Russell and Gill Watkins’ Millend flock in Herefordshire.

Robbie Wilson, North Dorlaithers, Turriff, sold a lamb at £4,000, to Danny Devlin, Quarryhill, Donegal. He is a Strathbogie Yes Sir son, out of a ewe by Strathbogie Untouchable.

Best in the crosses was £1,800, for a Beltex cross shearling from Stuart Wood, Woolhillock, Skene, Westhill, which went to Glen Almond Farms, Perth.