A busy day in the main ring today 2756 Breeding Sheep through the ring commencing with 1065 Geld Gimmer Hoggs which sold to a good trade throughout and in front of many people’s expectations. Topping the day was a pen of cracking Beltex hoggs from Hywell Williams of LLanddeusant which sold for £185 with Donald Sunderland of Halton East topping the Mule hoggs at £148.

The tremendous show of hoggs and lambs found a ready audience from start to finish. Despite trade back slightly on last year the trade was buoyant throughout peaking with a pen of Beltex Hoggs with Beltex lambs from Steve Buckley of Doveholes, Derbyshire at £245. The impressive annual run from the Stapleton family of Skipton peaked at £240 for their usual quality run of texel hoggs with beltex lambs. For the first time, this year white faced hoggs and lambs out numbered Mule hoggs with lambs and forged an impressive trade with Texel X and Beltex X hoggs with Lambs averaging just shy of £195.

The best of the Mule Hoggs with Lambs again came from the Johnson Family of Felliscliffe which peaked at £205 for the first prize pen producing a strong average of £181 per outfit for their entire run. Malcolm Gratton of Warsill wasn’t far behind with high of £195 and an average of £179 with plenty of commercial type hoggs selling £160 - £170.

Another good show of Ewes and Lambs expected next week with circa 500 outfits expected with entries closing Friday.   

Judges – Brian Bowness, Andrew Grainger & Richard Batty

Geld Mule Hoggs

1^st DW Sunderland sold for £148

2^nd A Wilson & Son sold for £120

3^rd JR Lancaster sold for £117

5 Mule Hoggs + Lambs

1^st RG Johnson & Son sold for £205

2^nd CM Gratton sold for £195

3^rd RG Johnson sold for £170

5 Cont Hoggs + Lambs

1^st KG Stapleton sold for £230

2^nd SJ Buckley sold for £245

3^rd JM Daggett sold for £210

Gimmer Hoggs

Suffolk                                   to £75                                    £75 F Marrison

Texel Hoggs                          to £130 av £99                     £130 JL North; £113 GT Carr; £110 PS Hamer

Masham                                to £98                                    £98 JC Lund

Mule                                       to £148 av £95                     £148 £140 £130 DW Sunderland; £120 A Wilson & Son; £117 JR Lancaster;

Swaledale                              to £81 av £77                       £81 £80 SW&JE Ryder;

Jacob                                      to £68                                    £68 T&J Smith;

Beltex                                    to £185                                  £185 HW Williams

Zwartable                              to £94                                    £94 GT Carr

Hoggs & Lambs