Beltex crosses ruled the roost amongst the cross-bred rams securing the majority of top prices including the day’s high of £6200 paid for a shearling ram from Fiona Mellor, Annstead, Beadnell, Chathill.

More than doubling her previous best when selling in Ring 16 was a shearling son of a Proctors Beltex ram bought at Carlisle in 2021, out of a home-bred Texel ewe. The buyers were A Peart and Sons, Woodcroft, Frosterley.

Second top price was £5500 paid for a shearling from William and Liz McAllister, Parkgate, Kells, Northern Ireland, purchased by E Milburn and Son, Hollinghill Farm, Morpeth. Backed by home-bred genetics on both sides, this big lad is sired by the Greenall Dennis The Menace son, Artnagullion Fighter, which was retained for breeding and out of an Artnagullion Charollais ewe.

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Another the exact same way bred from the McAllisters made £3000 selling to Pamela Nicol who manages Eastmill Farm, Glenisla

Home-bred genetics were behind the champion cross-bred, a three-quarter Texel cross Beltex from the Ingram family’s Logie Durno flock from Aberdeenshire, which made £3500 selling to Messrs Putley.

Beltex cross Charollais proved popular for David and Helen Sloan and daughter Hannah, Rigghead, Dumfries, when they sold seven to average £2114. Dearest here at £3000 was a shearling son of Woodies Explosive out of a home-bred Charollias ewe. The buyer was Balcomb.

Rigghead also produced the lead priced Charollais at £3400, a shearling purchased by James Whiteford, Tercrosset, Brampton. He is sired by Rigghead Aphrodite a ram sold privately to Langside, and out of a home-bred ewe.

Averages:393 shearling rams, £1061.68 (+£242.39 for 86 fewer sold); nine ram lambs, £461.11(-£358.89 for five more).