Prices peaked at £250 or 609.8p per kg for the champion winners, a pair of 41kg Dutch Texel lambs from Messrs Sowerby, Terrys Farm, Ormiside, at Harrison and Hetherington's show and sale of 470 spring lambs at Kirkby Stephen.

The same home also produced the reserve winners, a pair of Beltex lambs which scaled 40kg and sold for £232 each or 580p/kg; a pair of 44kg Texel cross lambs that made £232/527.3p/kg, a pair of 50kg Suffolk cross lambs at £232/464p/kg) and another three 40kg Beltex cross lambs that sold for £200 each or 500p/kg. In all, Terrys Farm's 13 lambs which averaged 43.9kg brought in just shy of £3000, having averaged £225.38 or 513.1p per kg.

In all, 56 lambs sold for £200-£250 and 87 lambs made 430-609.8p/kg.

The 3044 prime hoggs sold to £236 for a pen of 13 Texel cross hoggs from Jo Jo Andrews, Boscar Flats, York.

Leading Prices

Per head – DT – £250 Terrys Farm. Belt – £232, £200 Terry Farm; £197 Moorriggs; £180 Street House. Suff – £232 Terry Farm; £207, £200, £199 Wood Farm; £192 Town End Farm; £190, Pilling Lane. Tex – £232, £220, £218 Terrys Farm; £206, £204.50 (x2), £202 Wood Farm; £193 Chapel Farm; £190, Dry Evers. Char – £206 Pilling Lane

Per kg – DT – 609.8p Terrys Farn. Belt – 580p, 500p Terry Farm; 469p Moorriggs. Tex – 527.3p, 436p, 431.4p Terrys Farm; 447.6p, 430p Staingills; 446.2p, 440.5p, Paradise Farm; 432.4p, Street House. Char