Llwynsarn Non tops Skipton sheepdogs at £14,000

Following his online top price here in March of £18,100 was Llwynsarn Non, from Tynygraig, Talybont, near Aberystwyth. Non is a daughter of Mr Jenkins' main stud dog Jock, the reigning ISDS International supreme champion, with whom he represented Wales at last year’s BBC One Man and His Dog final, which has also bred daughters to 26,000gns.

Non is out of Llwynsarn Eve, bred in North Wales by Hefin Jones, a former Welsh National champion. Dewi’s latest success proved a real family affair, as the bitch was reared until 10-months-old by his girlfriend, Sara Lewis, then trained by Dewi and also used for two lambing seasons on his sister Sara Jenkinson’s neighbouring farm.

Non, a black and white bitch mated earlier this month to Aled Owen’s Llangwm Bud – the 2022 reserve champion behind Jock – sold to an undisclosed Welsh handler.

Next best at 4000gns was Tony Birkett's two-year-old red and white bitch, Jess, from Carnforth. She is by Kevin Evans’ red Spot, a German import, and out of Mr Birkett's own Ruby, herself a daughter of Ricky Hutchinson’s 2015 reserve supreme, Sweep. Jess sold to Leyburn husband and wife team and Beltex sheep breeders, Martin and Val Brown.

Selling up to Dumfriesshire with Ms M Lewis, Sanquhar at 3800gns was Mist, a rising three-year-old tri-coloured bitch from Skelmersdale’s Michael Woods. She was bred by Welsh trialist GA Lewis.

Close behind on 3700gns, former jump jockey Michael McAlister, Glenariffe, sold Bill, also by Kevin Evans’ red Spot, out of the Co Antrim breeder’s own Mag. Bill was accounted for by an undisclosed Scottish purchaser.

Northern Ireland, sheep and cattle farmer Loughlin Conn, sold Jock, by D McNeill’s Yellowhill Tommy, out of J Connell’s Lynn, to AR Mundell, Moffat.

Registered broken dogs sold to 3700gns to average £2363, registered broken bitches to 14,000gns to level at £4369 and an unregistered broken bitch made 1700gns.