KS Hotshot at £45,000
TOM and Kay Hutchinson’s small breeders’ champion on the second day of a two-day show and sale of Swaledale shearling rams at Kirkby Stephen, attracted the lead price of £45,000.
The event, which saw an entry of 880 head was topped by Kingshaugh Hotshot, from the Hutchinson’s Bail Hill pen from Upper Teasdale. A son of the home-bred Deano tup which sold for £18,000 with a share retained, he is out of a ewe bought privately from Patrick Sowerby, Oakbank
TOM AND and by a Paul Ewbank-bred sire. Hotshot sold jointly to Mark Nelson, Bull and Cave, Clapham and John Richardson, Ghyll House, Appleby.
Richard and Gail Harker’s Grayrigg Hall rams from Kendal always prove popular and this year was no different with a top price of £35,000 paid for a son of the shared £34,000 West Briscoe tup bought at Hawes in 2020. Bred from a ewe by a Harkerside ram, he sold jointly to Robert Hutchinson, Valley Farm, Bowes, and David Allinson, West Briscoe, Baldersdale.
Top price on the first day was £30,000 paid for the No 1 from Mark and Linda Rukin, West Stonesdale, Richmond.
Their Stonesdale Major, a son of the West Briscoe tup they have shown successfully, out of a ewe by a home-bred tup that was champion at Tan Hill as a tup hogg, was purchased by Bill Cowperthwaite, Tennant Gill, Settle
John Richardson’s Ghyll House Machine, from Ghyll House, secured the championship on the first day and went on to sell for £22,000 to Richard Hutchinson, Redgate, Kirkby Stephen, with a share retained by Mr Richardson. Bred from an old Richard Harker ewe, he is sired by Blackcombe Duke, a £32,000 purchase out of Kirkby in 2020.