Bluefaced Leicester gimmer lamb tops Carlisle breed sale at 5,000gns

Topping the sale at 5,000gns was the show’s reserve champion, a gimmer lamb, from Richard Hutchinson, Kirkby Redgate. This gimmer is by Y25 Hewgill, which sired nine of the Redgate’s top pen of 10 Mules in 2008.

Her mother is by W1 Keer. The hammer fell to R. Wallace, Girvan, Ayrshire.

The show champion was a gimmer lamb, from Messrs Lord’s Hewgill flock, North Stainmore, Kirkby Stephen. This one was by Z14 Hewgill, which sired a lot of the Lord’s best lambs last year, and its mother is by M8 Hewgill. The buyer at 3,000gns was Mark Allan, Appleby, Cumbria.

The reduction of John and Mandy Smith Jackson’s Shafthill flock, Melkridge, produced a top bid of 4,200gns.

This was paid for a ewe by the homebred S25 Shafthill and carrying triplets to B3 Highberries. She travelled over the water into Northern Ireland with S. Laverty, Armoy, Ballymoney.

This ewe was out of S44 Shafthill, a 10-year-old P3 Hewgill sired ewe, which was sold earlier in the sale for 2,000gns, going to M.W. Skidmore and Son, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham.

Another half-sister, out of the same ewe, but by Y8 Shafthill, sold for 3,200gns carrying twins to Z21 Shafthill. This one went in a two way split to G.E. Carter, Longtown, Cumbria, and Messrs Bell and Copeland, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire.

A ewe by S25 Shafthill, out of the full sister to the S44 Shafthill ewe, sold for 2,600gns to A.C. and K. Pye and Son for the Emmets flock, Lancaster.

Messrs Wight’s Midlock flock, Lanarkshire, took first place in the gimmer class with a son of the £5,000 Riddings out of a ewe by the £17,000 Bull and Cave.

This ewe sold carrying three lambs to Z40 Midlock. It went to Scottish breeder John Kerr, Maybole, Ayr, for 2,200gns. Midlock sold another five gimmers for 2,000gns or more.

Neil Marston saw a gimmer break the 2,000gns mark when he sold a Z4 Hundith lamb out of a X1 Snab Green for 2,000gns to G. and G. Jackson and Son, Blubber Houses, Yorkshire, who also bought a Shafthill lamb for 2,400gns.

Notable flock averages include £1,638 for 15 from Midlock; £1,638 for five from Hewgill; 26 from Shafthill averaged £1,536 and five from Tanhouse averaged £1,090.

Averages: 41 ewes, £852.94; 35 shearling gimmers, £1,210.50; 40 ewe lambs, £972.83; 116 head overall, £1,002.16.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.

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