Border Leicesters met a mixed trade at the breed’s annual show and sale at Lanark on Wednesday where a selective trade for ram lambs resulted in a top price of £3200 with a 73% clearance.
It was nevertheless a good day for Tom and Marjory Tennant and son Andrew’s Westforth flock from Gilmanscleugh, Selkirk, which not only topped the sale but also produced the lead average of £1780 for five lambs.
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Their £3200 sale leader is a son of last year’s purchase, Alticane Churchill and out of a home-bred ewe by Alticane Uncle Mo that bred last year’s £3000 Westforth William Wallace. The buyers were P and D Playfair, Kaimknowe, Stichhill, Eastfield, Kelso.
Another from the same stable and by the same sire but out of a home-bred ewe by Alticane Thistlecrack, made £2200 selling to R Morton, Stobilee, Lanark.
Two ram lambs sold for £3000, with the first being Mary Laidlaw’s No 2 from the Drennans flock from Galston. He is sired by the Mearns Jet son, Drennans Jet, out of a Ditton Duke-sired daughter and sold in a two-way split to David and Iain Walker, Alticane, Pinwherry, Girvan who bought two-thirds with the remainder selling to Jack Lamb, Ingleston, Annbank, Ayr.
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Alec and Sandy Watson of the Intock flock, Stow, bought the second £3000 lamb from Tom Nelson, High Kilphin, Ballantrae. This was the pen leader sired by the Didcot Duster son, Knockglass Johnnie B Good and out of a ewe by Intock Sandy.
One of the last lots sold made £2400 for Neil Howie’s Lyham flock from Northumberland. His second prize winner from the Border Union Show, is sired by Drennan’s Victor and was knocked down to Derbyshire breeder, B Stanley, Park Farm, Melbourne.
The Stewart family’s Kininmonth flock from Cupar, sold to £2000 for their pen leader which is sired by Muirmouth Major Sandy. Half sold for £1000 to Stewart Lathangie, Pyeston, Glenrothes, with Kininmonth taking the remaining share.
Females peaked at £1300 for a gimmer from the Walker’s Alticane flock, purchased by G and N Pamplin, The Barns, Ringstead, Northants. She is sired by Elsrickle Eyecatcher which bred other gimmers at £1100 and £1000 for the flock.
Ewe lambs peaked at £1000 twice. Neil Howie, Lyham sold a daughter of Drennan’s Victor to P and D Playfair, Kaimknowe, and John Hamilton, Silvermuir, received the same money from J Eddleston, Swallows Nest, East Barn, Ribchester, Preston, for a Lyham Denman-sired lamb.
Leading Prices
Gimmers – £1300, £1100, £1000, Alticane; £900, £750, Drennans; £700, £650, £550, Lyham; £500, £800, The Mead; £600, £650, £800 Elsrickle.
Ewe lambs – £1000, £650, £500 Silvermuir; £1000, Lyham; £800, £750, £700, Kinninmonth; £600, £600, £550, £450 Westforth; £650, Kilphin; £550, Lowerdaviesdykes; £650, £550, Elsrickle Mains.
Ram lambs – £3200, £2200, £1200, £1200, £1100, Westforth; £3000, £500, Drennans; £3000, £700, Kilphin; £2400, £500, £500, Lyham; £2000, Kininmonth; £1200, £800, Silvermuir; £1100, £750, £500, Alticane; £1100 Mearns; £1100, Muirmouth; £1000 Ditton; £800, Elsrickle Mains; £700, Clola; £750, Shawsmill; £750, Intock.
Averages: 27 ewe lambs, £540.37 (+£49.76 for six fewer); 23 gimmers, £608.70 (-£47.55 for seven more); 58 ram lambs, £714.83 (-£30.24 for 13 fewer).
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