FLOCK averages
ANOTHER FROM the Wights at Midlock made £30,000
The £11,000 Glenrath shearling by the £200,000 Dalchirla and bred from a ewe by a £160,000 Elmscleugh, was bought by Andrew Provan and son Andrew, Parkhall, Douglas.
Glenrath’s No 3, by a homebred son of the £100,000 Nunnerie shearling was another to make the grade, selling for £28,000 to Tommy Renwick and son Tam, Williamhope, Clovenfords and Billy and Andrew Renwick, Blackhouse, Yarrow. His dam, one of 1200 in the flock, is by an £18,000 Midlock.
The last of the £32,000 shearling sales came for the second last lot through the ring from Willie Dunlop and sons Quintin and William, Elmscleugh, Dunbar, who with two other big sellers at £28,000 and £10,000 produced the lead average at £13,133 for six.
Tops here was the pen’s No 2, a son of the £60,000 Loughash lamb bought at Lanark in 2020 with Nunnerie and Midlock, is bred from a ewe by a £4000 Midlock. The buyers were Donald and Jimmy MacGregor, Dyke, Milton of Campsie; Willie and Billy Graham, Craigdarroch, Sanquhar and Richard Carruthers, Merkland, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.
Davie Ferguson and Jim McEwan, Drannandow, Newton Stewart and the Mitchells of Little Larg, New Luce, bought the £28,000 Elmscleugh ram, a son of the £80,000 Allanfauld lamb bought here in 2020 in partnership with Nunnerie, out of a ewe by a £22,000 Dalwyne.
A £26,000 Dalchirla lamb purchased at Dalmally with Hill of Errol, was behind the £10,000 shearling from the Dunlops. John Ramsay, Barhaskine, Glenluce; John and Thomas Scott, Garchew, Bargrennan, and John and Richard Wood, Kingledores, Tweedsmuir, forked out the cash for this stuffy ram bred from a ewe by a £5000 Dalwyne.
Donald and Jimmy MacGregor, Dyke, have already had a good year and they were back in the money amongst the shearling rams, with sales at £24,000 and £20,000.
The former and pen leader, by the £45,000 Nunnerie shearling bought at Dalmally with Dalchirla and Midlock, was knocked down to Robert Cockburn, Hill of Errol, Perth and Alastair and David MacArthur, Nunnerie, Abington. His dam is by a £15,000 Midlock.
Mary McCall-Smith, Connachan, Crieff; Merkland and John Carruthers, Silloans, Rochester, bought the £20,000 Dyke shearling which is sired by the £17,000 Midlock lamb bought in 2019, that also fathered their £75,000 tup at Dalmally the previous week along with several other top sellers last year. His dam is by an £8000 Auldhouseburn.
The first five-figure sale of the day at £16,000, came from Una Hodge’s 1400-ewe flock from Kirkland, Sanquhar. Producing a personal best here was a son of an £11,000 Craigdarroch, bred from a ewe by a £2500 Happrew. He was knocked down to Colin McClymont, Cuil, Newton Stewart.
Two shearlings went under the hammer at £13,000 with the first from Archie and John MacGregor, Allanfauld, selling to Malcolm Coubrough, Hartside Farms, Lamington. Their pen leader, by the £200,000 Dalchirla lamb, is out of a ewe by a £32,000 Dalchirla lamb.
Matching that price was the No 3 from the Renwicks at Williamhope, purchased by Glenrath, who were buying back some of their own genetics. The pedigree behind this big tup includes a £60,000 Glenrath shearling sold here in 2018, onto a ewe by a £75,000 Glenrath lamb.
The pen leader from Williamhope, a son of the £20,000 Midlock, out of a ewe by a £25,000 Elmscleugh made £10,000. He was purchased jointly by Tom and Mairi Paterson and son Robert, Dunruchan, Muthill, Crieff and Sam McClymont and sons William and Scott, Tinnis, Yarrow, jointly.
Bo Brown and Ben Cluckie, Waterhead, celebrated their first year in the ‘big ring’ too with an £11,000 sale for their second year selling at Lanark. The partnership, who sold the dearest tup in Ring 2 last year at £1900, sold their second prize winner from Abington Show at this price
ELMSCLEUGH ALSO took £28,000 for their No 1 to Wigtownshire breeders, Susan Archibald, Larg, and David Wilson, Kirkmabreck, both Creetown, Newton Stewart. Their purchase, by a home-bred son of a £22,000 Dalchirla, is out of a ewe by a £1900 Upper Cleugh.
Team Ramsay, Milnmark, Corsock, also received £11,000 for a shearling son of a £22,000 Lurg bought at Stirling in 2020, out of a ewe by a £2000 Allanfauld. The buyers were Kirkland and Craigdarroch.
Top price in Ring 2 was £12,000 paid for Dougie Fleming’s pen leader from Nisbet, Coulter, purchased by Allanfauld and Nunnerie. For their money, they get a son of an £1100 Elmscleugh shared with Midlock, out of a Midlock-bred ewe by Midlock Hawkeye, one of 520 Blackface ewes kept by Mr Fleming.
Ring 1
Shearling rams
Blackhouse (8) 2200 1125.00 Westhills (4) 6500 2737.50 Drannandow (4) 2200 1300.00 Haystoun (4) 4200 1625.00 Silloans (3) 3500 1500.00 Kirkland (4) 16,000 4575.00 Wester Crosswoodhill (5)5800 2660.00
Tinnis (4) 1100 775.00 Sweetshawhead (5) 2400 1380.00 Easter Happrew (3) 650 550.00 Hartside (5) 4500 2020.00