Some 558 cattle, 126 calves and 1212 sheep were forward for Darlington Farmers Auction Mart’s Christmas shows and sales of store cattle and rearing calves.

Judge Andrew Dyson of Gebdykes, Masham found his champion in a 20-month-old heifer from young first-time consignor, Jack Sewell, Knavesmire, Hamsterley, which sold for the top price of £2120 to D Holgate, Wakefield.

Reserve was a nine-month-old Limousin steer from P and K Brannen, Scar Top, Penrith, that made £1740 to NE Dyson, Masham.

Stephen Harrison, Grange-Over-Sands, selected the winners in the rearing calves and found his supreme in an August-born British Blue bull calf from the Wilkinson family of Carrsides Farm, who also took the reserve with a September-born Simmental bull.

The two calves sold for £610 and £615 respectively, with both purchased by D Holgate, Wakefield. The 126 calves sold to 20 active ringside buyers to average £302.58 with a 100% clearance.

Cast cattle sold to £2618 for a bull from RJ and R Greenbank.

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Leading Prices

Store cattle – Bulls – £1670, £1650 x2 HE Jewitt; £1610 x2 WB Rutter and Sons; £1600 P and K Brannen; £1580, £1570 C Moffett; £1530, E Taylor and Son; £1530 x2 S Waggott.

Steers – £1740 P and K Brannen; £1730, £1680, CL Clark; £1690 x2, £1660 x3, £1640, £1620, F Ward; £1690 W and J Herbert; £1680, £1660 D Walker; £1620 x2 W Wearmouth and Son; £1620 WB Rutter and Sons; £1610 x2, £1600 x2 ME and TD Tailford; £1570 x4 TW and C Emerson; £1570 RA and SL Wearmouth; £1570 RL Carter.

Heifers – £2120 BJS Farms; £1900, £1810, £1690, £1660, £1650 x2, £1630, £1610, £1570, £1560 N Gill; £1780, £1630, £1600 x3, £1590, TW West; £1730 P and K Brannen; £1700 CL Clark; £1700, £1630 x2, £1610 x4, £1580, £1560, £1550 F Ward; £1650 H and S Hutchinson; £1630, £1620 RA and SL Wearmouth; £1610 W and J Herbert; £1590 W Wearmouth and Son; £1580, WB Rutter and Sons; £1580 M Gallon; £1550 x2 Wilsons.

Calves – Bulls – Sim – £615, £480 Wilkinson and Son. BB – £610, £550, £545, Wilkinson and Son; £500, £475 G Thompson and Sons. A-A – £490, Baysleap Dairy Farm. Inra – £460 J and A Stevenson and Sons. Lim – £340 R Tookey and Son. FR – £260 G Thompson and Sons; £230 Deerness Valley Dairy. Mont – £230 Baysleap Dairy Farm.

Heifers – BB – £490, £480 Wilkinson and Son. Inra – £440, £400 J and A Stevenson. Sim – £365 x2 Wilkinson and Son. A-A – £350 G Thompson and Sons. Lim – £310 RW Raper and Sons.