The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Ram lamb leads charge at club sale
Aram lamb named Bradleys Eubank led the charge at the Solway & Tyne Texel Breeders Club show and sale in Carlisle when he sold for 70,000gn.
The February-born son of the 10,000gn Craig Douglas Dancer, and out of a dam by the 24,000gn Fordafourie Amalert, was put forward by Lancashire breeder Ryan Bradley.
He stood reserve overall champion in the pre-sale show at Harrison and Hetherington’s Borderway Mart and sold in a threeway split to Procters Farm Ltd, Clitheroe, Lancashire; Boden & Davies Ltd, Mellor, Stockport; and Highfield Farming Ltd, Duns, Berwickshire.
The next best price of 30,000gn was paid twice.
First, selling to Vaughan Farms Ltd in Herefordshire, was February-born ram lamb Cressage Epicentre, by Mellor Vale Dakota, from Shropshire breeder Matthew Ellis.
The other, selling to Ayrshire breeder Alan Blackwood for his Auldhouseburn flock, was a February-born ram lamb named Saltcotes E Class, by Craig Douglas Dancer, from Cumbria breeder James Conor Porter.
Other leading prices included 16,000gn for February-born ram lamb Hilltop Escobar from Kenny Pratt who runs the Hilltop flock at Oldtown Farm, Peterculter, Aberdeen. He sold in a fiveway split to breeders based in the north of England.
The Ingram family from Logie Durno, Pitcaple, Inverurie, paid 14,000gn for February-born ram lamb Feddal Road Easypeasy, by Ellen Valley Dazzler, from Dunblane breeder Alistair Smith.
The overall champion from the show made 10,000gn when it sold to the judge – Peebles breeder Steven Renwick from the Craig Douglas flock.
Females topped at 7,000gn for a gimmer from Boden & Davies Ltd’s Sportsmans flock.
By the 65,000gn Garngour Craftsman, and out of a dam by the 145,000gn Knap Vicious Sid, she sold to the Cambridgeshire-based Ulmus flock.
Averages: Aged rams, two, £997.50; shearling rams, 183, £1,155.53; ram lambs, 294, £1,687.21; gimmers, 62, £863.54; ewe lambs, three, £472.50.