On Monday, Borderway Auction Mart, Carlisle, hosted the North West Limousin Breeders' Club and the Border British Blue Club's annual show and sale of primestock.

Morgan Helliwell judged both sections and found his supreme in the Blue winner a 762kg heifer from Messrs Twentyman, Osborne. She is by Osborne Harvey, out of a British Blue cross Limousin dam, and sold to the judge for 280p per kg or £2133.

Reserve overall was the champion Limousin, a black heifer weighing 723kg from Messrs Studholme, Nealhouse, Carlisle. A Norman Lumberjack daughter she went on to make 301.5p or £2179.

LEADING awards

BB X – Steers – 1, GN and DM Bowe, Bothel Parks, Wigton, 744kg, 253.5p, £1886.

Heifer – 1, Messrs Twentyman, Osborne, Wigton, 762kg, 280p, £2133; 2, JJ Crichton, Loughrigg, Egremont, 607kg, 284.5p, £1726; 3, Loughrigg, 558kg, 281.5p, £1570.

Cast cow – 1, A and CS Comrie, Stonebyres Mains, Lanark, 934kg, 249.5p, £2330; 2, KD Harryman, Keskadale, Keswick, 807kg, 239.5p, £1932; 3, Stonebyres Mains, 917kg, 239.5p, £2196.

Young bulls – 1, R and E Pattinson, Temon, Brampton, 1073kg, 301.5p, £3235; 2, G Whalley, Bunthill Moor, Newton in Bowland, 660kg, 267.5p, £1765; 3, I McGarva, Nether Abington, Abington, 947kg, 299.5p, £2836.

Lim X – Steer – 1, GN and DM Bowe, Bothel Parks, 745kg, 262.5p, £1955; 2, Messrs Graham, Miller Hill, Gilsland, 741kg, 267.5p, £1982; 3, JE Studholme and Son, Nealhouse, Carlisle, 654kg, 264.5p, £1729.

Heifer – 1, Nealhouse, 723kg, 301.5p, £2179; 2, W Atkinson, Demesne, Sandwith, 659kg, 287.5p, £1894; 3, JG and M Little, Greenhill, Wigton, 555kg, 311p, £1728.

Cow – 1, K D Harryman, Keskdale, 681kg, 257.5p, £1753; 2, Messrs Jenkinson, Clifton Moor, Clifton, 814kg, 219p, £1786; 3, Clifton Moor, 718kg, 221.5kg, £1590.

Bull – 1, T Scott, Daltonhook, Lockerbie, 723kg, 279.5p, £2020; 2, GA and JM Maw, Whintershields, Bewcastle, 671kg, 298p, £2002; 3, AJ Ewing, Dumbretton, Annan, 968kg, 281.5p, £2724.