A round up of this week’s auction mart sales, including reports from Kirkby Stephen, Sedgemoor, Ruswarp, Dalmally, Darlington and Lanark
Victory by name and victory by nature as Goldies Victory claimed the intermediate and overall championship before selling for the top price of 70,000gns at the British Limousin Cattle Society sale at Borderway
Charolais bulls topped at 18,000gns three times with the 86 bulls averaging £9,039.77 up £1,062 on the year with a 95% clearance
Selling for a breed record for the October sale of 36,000gns was the overall and junior champion, Goldies Volvo from Bruce Goldie, Mouswald
David and Tom Bradley Farmer led both male and female Beef Shorthorn trade
Simmental bulls were a flying trade topping at 30,000gns with another record average of £11,070, up £3,636 on last year for 12 more bulls sold and with a with a clearance rate of 80%
A solid trade for Aberdeen-Angus bulls peaked at 18,000gns with the 32 bulls averaging £7,656, a rise of £580 on 2024 with a clearance rate of 84%
Rams from the Jenkins family set not one but two breed records at the sale of Welsh Mountain sheep at Dolgellau
The stars of the equine world were on display at the Horse of the Year Show held at the NEC Birmingham
A round up of this week's auction mart sales including reports from Louth, Stirling, Exeter, Clitheroe and Cockermouth