Shearling takes top price of £42,000

Setting the trade alight early on the shearling day was the Campbell family’s Glenrath consignment. Their best, a son of a £6,500 High Staward, out of a ewe by a £6,500 Nunnerie, sold at £42,000 in a three-way split to Tommy Renwick, Williamhope, Clovenford; Billy Renwick, Blackhouse, Yarrow; and Burncastle Farming Co, Lauder.

Another from Glenrath, by a £15,000 Dyke sire, sold at £11,000 to Andrew Provan, Parkhall, Douglas, and John and Iain Renwick, Corsebank, Sanquhar.

The Campbells had yet another at £11,000, from their Easter Happrew consignment. That one, a son of the £6,500 High Staward, out of a daughter of the £65,000 Auldhouseburn, sold to the Ashcraig, Kirkstead and Dryhope flocks.

The Wights’ Midlock shearlings, from Crawford, attracted plenty of attention, selling to a top of £32,000. Their leader is by Gold Blend – a homebred son of £40,000 Dalchirla – while his dam is a daughter of a £44,000 Crossflatt. Buyers were Archie and John Macgregor, Allanfauld, Kilsyth; the Campbells at Drimsynie, Lochgoilhead; and Neil and Stuart Barclay, Harestone, Banchory.

Next best was a £20,000 bid for the best of the Dyke pen from Jimmy and Donald Macgregor, Milton of Campsie. Sired by a £15,000 Midlock and out of a ewe by a £24,000 Elmscleugh, he sold to the Kays at Gass, Straiton; the Campbells’ Glenrath flock, and Malcolm Coubrough, Hartside, Lamington.

Averages: 155 ram lambs, £4644.77 (+£483 for 30 fewer sold). Ring 1 – 264 shearling rams, £2197.08 (-£17.38 for 21 fewer sold on the year). Shearlings Ring 2 – 265 rams, £557.25 (+£13.06 for 45 more sold).