Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs & Breeding Sheep:
Forward: 7,997 Head, Overall av £65.37.
Another good entry of lambs today and trade back up a gear, especially for the longer keep store lambs. Today’s sale included the Annual Show & Sale of Continental cross Gimmer Lambs competing for The Chris Hagar Trophy. Judge Mr John Turner awarded the champion rosette to a lovely pen from Roger & Jason Craddock of Bolton by Bowland and these sold for £155. Tops of the sale were £170 from the same vendor with several best show pens into three figures. To receive a premium, drawn Suffolk and Continental lambs need to be well grown and have good skins and a clean head, and most of these type of lambs sold for £80-£95, with smaller running type lambs from £68 to £78. Those not conforming to this standard are best left as mixed stores with the wethers.
Stores were good to sell and a large crowd of buyers assembled from a wide area, with a large contingent of Welsh buyers and Border counties buyers. Mule Wethers found good favour today with 2,000 of these trading to an average of nearly £57. Masham Wethers were also out in force, and the Annual show for pens of 40 or more wethers saw first prize go to Messrs Lister of Kiln Hall selling for £67 each.
Show results
Continental Gimmer Lambs
1st- T Craddock & Son £155
2nd T Craddock & Son £170
3rd KW Gamble £155
40 or more Masham Wethers
1st K Lister & Son £67
2nd JM Wilson & Son £61
Next Sale is Wednesday 20th September – Entry of 10,000 expected.
Entries close Monday 9th September
PRINCIPLE PRICES
Suffolk Gimmers – Av £81.15
£92 £84 SL&SD Lund; £80 RD Metcalfe; £86x3 £85x2 AS Staveley; £84 MD Parkinson; £84 MR&VL Parsons; £84x2 BW Appleton; £82 Ashfield Farms; £81 SM Towler; £81 JR Metcalfe;
Suffolk Stores – Av £60.12
£64.50 C&RH Weatherhead; £63 MD Parkinson; £63 J Binns; £63 N Binns; £61 CG Barraclough; £60.50 £60 DB&E Greenwood;
Texel Gimmers – Av £85.14
£170 £155 T Craddock; £155 KW Gamble; £130 OM Chapman; £102 £94 JA&JH Hewetson; £100 £95 £92 H&M Dugdale; £98 £95 £92x3 AL Dean; £96 CD&RF Kitching; £95 JR Hemingway; £92x2 JR Smith;
Texel Stores – Av £62.84
£74 £70 C Beresford; £73 SI Horn; £71 Townhead Farms; £69.50 EB Webster; £69 J&JA Preston; £69 SL&I McClananchan;
Beltex Gimmers – Av £103.42
£145 KW Gamble; £90 AJ Haggas;
Beltex – Av £64.81
£69 AM Leach; £68 £63 JGE Heseltine; £65.50 AR&FT Naylor; £65 BR Lawson;
Mule – Av £56.97
£63.50 D&FJ Leeming; £63.50 £60.50 W Harrison; £60 AJ Mason; £60 JW Hall; £59.50 V Verity & Son; £59.50 J Rayner & Son; £59.50 W&J&E Harker; £59 AJ Bland; £58 EB Webster;
Masham – Av £62.28
£67 £61 K Lister; £61 JM Wilson & Son;
Charollais – Av £56.50
£59.50 AG Horn;
Cheviot – Av £48.40
£54 D Schofield;
Lleyn – Av £56.32
£61 West Berwick Farm; £55.50 NG Bailey;
Zwartable – Av £52
£55 £49 PG King;