Some 21,379 North of England Mule ewe lambs were forward for a two-day show and sale at Hawes Auction Mart, which sold to average £130.04, up £21 per head on the year, with a top price of £850.

On Monday, Aberdeenshire-based judge, Alan Ross and Mike Allen, Staithes, found their champion in a pen from JW and ME Taylor and Sons, Den, which sold for £460. On Tuesday, judges, Allan Collett Oxon, and Tom Tustian, Banbury, tapped out a pen from G and HR Shields, Ravenstonedale, that later made £380.

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Top price however was £850 paid for a second prize pen on the Tuesday from Martyn Allan, Greenhow, Dufton, purchased by the judge on the Monday, Mike Allen, Whitby.

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LEADING prices

Monday – JW and ME Taylor and Sons, £460,£190, £160; NC Marston, £380, £260, £210, £185; JA and R Caton, £300, £280, £230, £200, £190; WA and A Booth, £300, £200, £165, £160; T Ayrton and Son, £280; A and H Watson, £260, £205, £160; GP Taylor and Sons, £250, £175; E Fairburn and Sons, £240, £200, £180, £165 x2, £162; JH Sharp and Sons, £240, £190, £175; J Garth and Son, £215, £170; WM and JE Shuttleworth, £212, £180, £160; SD Thompson, £205, £165; DA and MA Brown and Son, £200, £175; SH and TA and M Sutcliffe, £190, £175; Bank House Farms, £185, £175; GR Scarr, £185; WA Dinsdale and Son, £185, £182, £162; N White, £180, £170 x2; Breck House Enter Ltd, £178; J and JA Burrow, £175; RS and BA Harker, £170; J and I Whitaker, £165; S and P Parker, £165; JW and JH Burton and Son, £160; S Bell and Sons, £160.

Tuesday – S Allan and Sons, £850, £240, £160; M/S Lord, £400, £210, £190; G and HR Shields, £380, £290, £180; CT and JE Willoughby, £310; NJ and L Allan, £290, £180, £168; WC Porter and Son, £270, £230, £180, £175; A Lodge, £250, £195, £175, £160; W and D Lawson, £250, £200; RS Harker and Son, £240, £200, £190, £175, £160; JH Pedley, £230, £170; R and PE Hargreaves and Sons; £205, £200, £170; WM Heron and Son, £190, £160; WA and GR Sedgley, £190; JW Porter and Sons, £185 x2, £165; CD and RF Kitching, £175, £165; JC and E Pedley and Sons, £175; MA Crocker, £175; JS Cloughton, £170, £160; S and T Fawcett £170; K and A Woof, £170; J Nelson and Son, £165; BD and A Horner, £165; J Allison and Sons, £165; RW Wallis and Sons, £162; JL and JA Sunter, £160; R and AR Hunter, £160.