The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Strathbogie to the fore at Texel Christmas Stars
CARLISLE: Top price of 16,000gn goes to Jim Innes with in-lamb gimmer
A top price of 16,000gn was paid for an in-lamb gimmer from Huntly breeder Jim Innes at the Christmas Stars Texel Sale at Carlisle.
Leading the way was a February 2016 born daughter of the 12,000gn Glenside Wild Boy, out of a ewe by Scholars Twenty Twelve.
She sold, in-lamb to Mullan Armani, to Boden & Davies Ltd, Mellor Hall Farm, Mellor, Stockport.
They also paid 12,000gn for another Strathbogie entry, this time by the 14,000gn Millar’s Windbrook and also in-lamb to Mullan Armani.
Next best at 8,000gn were two entries from Boden & Davies Ltd’s Sportsmans and Mellorvale flocks.
Both sold, in-lamb to the 70,000gn Teiglum Younggun, to RM Evans of Fox Farm, Shrewsbury.
Thereafter two breeders achieved bids of 7,000gn. The first was Graham Morrison, who runs the Deveronvale flock at Inchbruich Farm, Cornhill, Banff.
His entry by Millar’s Windbrook sold, in-lamb to Mullan Armani, to AC Lee for his Fordafourie flock at Feurdies, Fraserburgh.
The Deveronvale flock also achieved 6,000gn and 5,000gn for other Millar’s Windbrook daughters.
The other breeder selling to 7,000gn was Robert Cockburn, who runs the Knap flock at Errol.
His top-priced entry was a daughter of the 145,000gn Knap Vicious Sid. It sold, in-lamb to Mullan Amigo, to DN Bennett & Son, Upper Hall, Meifod, Powys.
The Knap flock also achieved 4,000gn, selling a daughter of Ettrick Van Gogh, in-lamb to Mullan Amigo, to the firm of G Gray, Sunnycroft, Lindean, Selkirk, Selkirkshire.
Other leading prices included a top of 6,000gn for Turriff breeder Robbie Wilson, who runs the Milnbank Flock at North Dorlaithers.
His sale leader was an April 2016 born daughter of the 42,000gn Glenside Valhalla, in-lamb to the £60,000 Strathbogie Yes Sir.
She sold to the Green family at Corskie, Garmouth, Fochabers.
Milnbank also achieved 3,800gn for a daughter of the 16,000gn Glenside Willy Nilly, selling in-lamb to Greenstar Alfie to C Bellis, Llwyn Y Cosyn, Holywell.
The Glenside flock, which is run by Ayrshire breeder John Forsyth, sold to a top of 5,000gn for a daughter of the 14,000gn Hexel Wild Bill, selling, in-lamb to Sportsmans A Star, to A Beaton, Wester Crosshill, Falkirk. FLOCK AVERAGES: Eden Valley – two, £1,023.75. Midlock – five, £1,533. Deveronvale – 13, £2,689.62. Milnbank – 13, £2,067.69. Sportsmans & Mellorvale–11,£2,787.27. Annan – six, £595. Strathbogie – 13, £3,565.96. Cowal – five, £2,100. Knap – 10, £2,877. Fordafourie – four, £695.62. Glenside – 14, £2,006.25.