The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
In-lamb ewe fetches top price of 11,000gns at Blackface sale
Lanark: Gimmer from Perthshire breeder takes pre-sale show champion title
Trade peaked at 11,000gns at the Blackface Sheep Breeders’ Association annual female show and sale at Lanark on Saturday.
Leading the way was a one-crop ewe by a £90,000 Blackhouse sire, from Hugh and Alan Blackwood, Auldhouseburn, Muirkirk.
A first prize winner at Muirkirk Show in 2016, this one is out of a ewe by a £24,000 Elmscleugh, and sold carrying a single to the £58,000 Auldhouseburn tup, Mourinho.
Buyer was Paul Coulson, for his High Staward flock at Hexham.
It was another one-crop ewe, this time from John and Charlie Harkin, Loughash, Strabane, that secured the day’s second top price of 6,000gns.
A daughter of a £40,000 Loughash, out of a ewe by a £6,500 Midlock, this one sold carrying twins to last year’s £11,000 Nunnerie, to Veronica Fullerton, Draperstown, Co Londonderry.
Champion at the pre-sale show, judged by Eoin Mckenna, Ballyknock, Maghera, was a gimmer from Robert Cockburn, Hill of Errol, Perthshire, which sold for 5,600gns.
Sired by £3,400 Lurg, out of a ewe by a son of a £5,800 Connachan, this one sold carrying twins to a Lurg-bred son of a £9,000 Dalwyne, to Ewen Macmillan, Lurg, Fintry.
Best from David Morrison’s Dalwyne consignment, from Barr, was a gimmer by the home-bred Davinci, which sold at 3,200gns to Malcolm Coubrough, Whelphill, Lamington.
Out of a ewe by the Buffalo, she is due to a son of £52,000 Crossflatt, carrying a single.
Matching that 3,200gns price tag was a gimmer from Archie and John Macgregor’s Allanfauld pen, a second prize winner at last year’s Royal Highland Show, which sold to Tom Bagan, Waterlands, Fenwick.
She is by the Beast, a home-bred son of £25,000 Crossflatt, out of a ewe by Sputnic, and in-lamb to £32,000 Midlock.
Top seller for Ewen Macmillan, Lurg, was a one-crop ewe by a £2,400 Lurg, out of a ewe by a £600 Lurg, which sold at 3,000gns to Rhona Monro, Fanmore, Mull.
That one is due twins to the £22,000 Dalchirla tup, The Monarch.
Pre-sale show results: Champion – E Macmillan, Lurg, Fintry.
Reserve – J&J Wight, Midlock, Crawford.
Ewes – 1 Midlock, 2 Whelphill, 3 Lurg, 4 Dyke, 5 Upper Cleugh.
Gimmers – 1 Hill of Errol, 2 Grains, 3 Dalwyne, 4 Midlock, 5 Allanfauld.