Craven Limousin Day - Head – 78 forward with a 91% Clearance rate. Judge – Mr Ian Wildgoose, Derbyshire Prices topped at 6000gns at the Craven Limousin Day when Garrowby Hurricane returned to an old hunting ground after his 2013 win at the Craven Limousin Extravaganza. Purchased at the 2013 sale by Michael and Stephen Priestleys’ Brontemoor herd, Hurricane has four crops of calves on the ground at the Priestleys’, Kirkcambeck farm in Cumbria, producing multiple show winners.

AMMUAL SHOW OF PEDIGREE & COMMERCIAL CATTLE - CHAMPION FROM JM&SP COOPER. RESERVE FROM N SLACK. PICTURES IN THE FLICKR GALLERY.

Hurricane storms to 6,000gns top price for Brontemoor herd at Skipton pedigree Limousin highlight Supreme championship falls to Gunnerfleet pedigree herd The first show class of the day for senior bulls also produced the day’s leading price of 6,000gns (£6,300) for the first prize winner, Garrowby Hurricane, at Skipton Auction Mart’s premier breed highlight of the year - Craven Limousin Day, the annual Spring show and sale of pedigree bulls and females. (Wed, May 10)

Tomschoice Matador charges to supreme championship at Northern Limousin Extravaganza Ole! was the call, as an up-and-coming pedigree bull, Tomschoice Matador, charged to a supreme championship success at the 2017 Northern Limousin Extravaganza (NLE), the opening day of Skipton Auction Mart’s annual two-day breed showcase. (Tues, May 9)

Blue Wednesday Annual Sale of Pedigree Blue Cattle. Judge - Richard Frankland Martin Sharp of Stainforth took the honors at Blue Wednesday. The Craven Cattle Marts fixture for Pedigree British Blue Breeding Cattle. Taitlands Kenny, a 2015 ET son of Heros Due Peroy bred from Taitlands Geraldine a ‘Littlebank Danny’ daughter won the male championship and went on to make 3500gns when knocked down to Mesrs Sowray & Son of Bishop Thornton for use on their dairy herd.

Ken and Kenny on the ball for Taitlands herd at CCM Blue Wednesday showcase North Craven’s Martin Sharpe and his partner Emma Milligan – they are due to marry in July – received an early wedding present when their Taitlands herd clinched a supreme championship and top price double with a brace of 2015-born British Blue bulls at Skipton Auction Mart’s 2017 pedigree beef season opener, the annual ‘Blue Wednesday’ show and sale. (Wed, April 26)

Pedigree cattle set to beef up 2017 seasonal showcase at CCM Skipton Skipton Auction Mart is gearing up for its 2017 pedigree beef show and sale season, a series of high profile Wednesday fixtures. It opens on April 26 with the annual show and sale of British Blue breeding bulls, cows and heifers, complemented by a prize sale for British Blue-sired store cattle. The fixture is again expected to create significant interest among potential buyers of sires suitable for breeding on both pedigree and commercial beef and dairy herds.

ANNUAL SALE OF INLAMB PEDIGREE BELTEX & TEXEL FEMALES. FULL REPORT BELOW.

FORWARD: 88 HEAD OF CATTLE 78 Pedigree Beef Shorthorn Cattle Judged by Annette Marshall. 10 Pedigree South Devon Cattle judged by John Hadley.

Scottish partnership shines at Skipton Beef Shorthorn highlight Scottish Shorthorn breeders Thomson, Roddick & Laurie, who run the Shawhill herd in Eaglesfield, Lockerbie, secured a championship and reserve championship double with a pair of outstanding heifers at the seventh annual show and sale of pedigree Beef Shorthorn cattle staged on behalf of the North of England Beef Shorthorn Club at Skipton Auction Mart. (Wed, Nov 9) The title winner also headed the selling prices at 5,900gns, a new centre record price for a Beef Shorthorn.

DALESBRED SHEEP SALE Top price today was a shearling ram consigned by Messrs JT&J Kelsall of Clapham, which was bred by a Capstick tup out of a Haygarth bred ewe, which sold to Messrs R Jackson & Son of Horton in Ribblesdale for 260gns. Also matching 260gns was the second prize shearling ram from JM Wilson & Son of Beckwithshaw, which was sired by a homebred tup and sold to Martin Brown of Ramsgill. Champion was Trevor & Joe Stoneys shearling ram which was sired by a Huddleston ram and bred from a Longton bred ewe made 80gns. 84% clearance rate.

Skipton Dalesbred rams highlight produces 260gns joint top prices Joint top prices of 260gns and a clearance rate of 84% for the 50-plus ‘gentlemen’ on parade were seen at the annual Dalesbred Sheep Breeders’ Association’s final seasonal show and sale of shearling and aged rams, and females, at Skipton Auction Mart.

26 Beef Breeding Cattle; Including 15 Pedigree Cattle and 11 Breeding Cattle Records were broken for females at the Autumn pedigree event with the “Millers Cote Nook herd” was dispersed. Leading price was Millers Cote Jezabell a Wilodge Fastrac Heifer scanned incalf to Netherhall Jackpot for Jan/feb which sold to Kevin Sunderland of Rossendale for 4200gns. Not far behind was Millers Cote Ivy a 2013 “Carmorn Dauphin” daughter sold with her Wilodge Goldcard heifer calf and carrying a service to Galileo which joined CCM’s field person Janet Sheard.

New record for females at Skipton beef breeding cattle feature A new record for females was set at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Autumn pedigree event for multi-breed beef breeding cattle, which featured a dispersal sale for the Miller family’s Millerscotenook Limousin herd at Cote Meadow Nook Farm, Water, Rossendale. (Wed, Oct 12)

Pedigree Charollais Females on behalf of The BCSS The Foulrice Flock property of Messrs Marwood from Whenby led the way at The British Charollais Sheep Society’s Autumn Sale of registered Charollais Females at Skipton on Saturday 8th October. It was a December 14 born shearling by Foulrice Lightening, a Castellau Krypton daughter out of a Head Master ewe that stood champion for the judge Mr David Roberts from Kenley in Shropshire. Having stood 1st prize ewe at both Ryedale & Kilnsey show this summer, she sold carrying twins to Foulrice Osprey, who was the Great Yorkshire Male Champion for 800gns, to the show judge Mr David Roberts.