Top price of £10,000 paid for South-type Blackie at Stirling

Averages rose but numbers sold were back on the year at the sale of South-type Blackface rams at Stirling.

The ringside had to wait until late in the day to see the top price ram being sold, a shearling from the Campbell family’s Glenrath flock at Peebles, which made £10,000.

Brought out by Steven Renwick, this one, a son of an £18,000 Midlock, out of a ewe by a £3,200 Dyke, sold to Jimmy and Donald MacGregor, Dyke, Milton of Campsie, and Billy and Andrew Renwick, Blackhouse, Yarrow.

From the same pen, a son of the £85,000 Elmscleugh, out of a ewe by a £34,000 Midlock, sold at £7,000 to Larg Farm, Creetown.

Mary McCall Smith’s Connachan consignment, from Crieff, sold to £3,000, for one by a £1,600 Dullator, which went to Ewen Macmillan, Lurg, Fintry.

Leading the lamb trade, at £6,500, was one by a £12,000 Nunnerie sire, from Craig Paterson, Aberuchill, Comrie.

Out of a Dalchirla-bred ewe by a son of the £50,000 Dalwyne, he was knocked down to Alastair MacArthur, Nunnerie, Elvanfoot.

Hugh and Alan Blackwood, Auldhouseburn, Muirkirk, sold lambs to a top of £5,200.

Making that money was one by the £58,000 Auldhouseburn, out of a ewe by £160,000 Dalchirla, which went to M Rorison, Clonrae, Dumfries, and Richard Colley, Mitchellslacks, Thornhill.

Another by the same sire made £4,800 for Auldhouseburn, selling to Richard Carruthers, Merkland, and John Carruthers, Silloans.

He is out of a ewe by a £6,500 Auldhouseburn. Best for Archie and John MacGregor’s Allanfauld consignment, from Kilsyth, was a £4,200 bid for a son of a £5,500 Elmscleugh, which sold to the Taylors at Braes of Ardeonaig.

At £3,800, Andrew and Ian Cullens, Dollarbank, sold a lamb by a £22,000 Glenrath, to D Higginson, Braelenny Farm, Callander.

And, at £3,000, David Murray, Lurgan, Aberfeldy, sold a son of a £15,000 Crossflatt, to Thomas Boswell, East Burnhead Farm, Darvel.

South-type averages – 552 shearlings, £761.52 (+£76.52 for 43 fewer sold); 119 ram lambs, £684.70 (+£16.70 for seven fewer sold).

The South-type Blackface shearling from the Glenrath flock that was bought for £10,000.