Lleyns topped at 7500gns for Rowelen Marksman at Carlisle

Sale leader was the male champion from this year’s Royal Welsh Show, Rowelen Marksman from Helen Wells, Glaneri, Cardigan. He is sired by a Lluest-bred stock ram, out of a home-bred ewe and headed home with Derek Steen, Coxhill, Moffat.

Top priced female at £700 from Farmstock Genetics The second prize ram at the pre-sale show, Brightonhouse Maestro, from G and A Fort, Brighton House Farm, Whitley Head Steeton, Keighley made 5000gns. Sired by the top priced ram at last year’s Skipton Society sale, he was snapped up by C Timm, Pickering. Matching that price and living up to his name was GH Blakey’s Netherton Lleyn Moneymaker from Netherton Northside, Morpeth. Sired by the flock’s stock ram, he heads north to join Laga Farms Ltd, Orkney.

The pre-sale show judge, R Twose, Twose Farms, Whitland, Dyfed, bought his choice of male champion at 4500gns. This was a Tacho shearling from WJ and DJ Williams, Bodtacho Ddu, Nefyn, Pwllheli.

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Selling at 5000gns was this shearling from G and A Fort Top price for Hamish Goldie’s Dumfriesshire-based Lochar flock was 4200gns paid for the pen leader, Lochar Mccoist, a son of a Lluest stock ram purchased by HM Dugdale and Son, Settle, North Yorkshire who also went to 4000gns for a Wray Castle shearling from JA and R Geldard and Sons, Low Foulshaw, Kendal. He stood third in his class at the pre-sale show.

Two other shearlings made 4000gns to include the Highland Show champion, Bardspark Mountain from David and Becca Henderson, Stonehaven. The buyer was D Knowles, Cragg Farm, New Hutton, Kendal.

Also making 5000gns was GH Blakey's shearling ram Laga Farms, Orkney, bought the second 4000gns entry, a Lluest ram from E and D Jones, Lluest Wen, Machynlleth. He is by a Tacho sire.

Ian and Tom Walling of Farmstock Genetics, Over Whitlaw, Selkirk topped the females with their first prize gimmer which made £700 selling to Helen Wells, Cardigan, Dyfed.The boys also sold a pen of five gimmers at £300 to the Winton Trust, Pencaitland, Tranent.

Pens of gimmers peaked at £360 per head for five from Lionel Organ, Ty Maen, Llandysul, purchased by C Timm.

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Top priced shearling from Hamish Goldies at 4200gns Hamish Goldie also had a great run with females, selling a pen of six gimmers for £320, to Messrs Peterkin, Beauly and two pens at £300. The first pen of five sold to H Dean, whilst a pen of 12 were knocked down to Messrs Wood, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

Another pen of six gimmers from Mr Goldie made £290 selling to T Bingham, Newark.

David and Becca Henderson, Nether Toucks, Stonehaven, sold a pen of four gimmers at £285 to K Dick, Greenhill, Stirling while their third prize individual ewe made £270n selling to A Vaughan, Llys Yr Awel, Tufton, Pembrokeshire

The Hendersons also topped the ewes selling a pen of six three-year-olds at £195 to South Dissington Farms, Hexham with a second pen making £170 to JE Lancaster, Fell View, Sandford.

Ted Fox, St Johns Kirk, Symington, bought two pens of four-year-old ewes at £165 and £155, from JM and RM Haston, Dearham Hall Farm, Row Brow, Dearham.

Ewe lamb peaked at £300 for a pen of six from Lionel Organ, purchased by A Selway, Stalbridge, Dorset.

Leading Prices

Ewes – £195, £170, D and B Henderson; £165, £155 JM and RM Haston

Gimmers – Individual – £700, Farmstock Genetics; £270, D and B Henderson; £250, HM Jenkinson. Pens – £360, L Organ; £320, £300 (x2), £290, £280 (x2) H Goldie; £300, Farmstock Genetics; £285 D and B Henderson; £275, L Jenkinson; £275, H and M Dugdale and Son

Ewe lambs – £300, L Organ; £235, L Jenkinson; £200, £175, £165 GH Blakey; £178, £168 D and B Henderson; £165 HM Jenkinson; £165 (x2) J and A Barrow and Sons.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

Averages:100 rams, £1435.98 (+£594.21 for 10 fewer sold); 30 ewes, £171.25 (+£76.25 for 26 more); 636 gimmers, £259.59 (+£62.81 for 341 fewer); 354 ewe lambs, £158.92 (+£31.11 for 54 more).