Swaledale rams top at £62,000

The sale leader was High Birkwith General 1, a shearling by home-bred Young General out of a £55,000 Oakbank Endeavour daughter, from Paul and Sue Hallam and family, High Birkwith. It sold to Robert Wear, Howe Green; Messrs Lawson, Howith; and Tom and Phillip Hutton, Setmabanning, with the Hallams retaining a half share.

Next on day one, at £22,000, was Penyghent King Pin by a Valley ram from John and Jean Bradley, Penny Grange, which went to John Richardson, Ghyll House, and Ian Bell, Spenrigg.

Robert Wear and his sons Adam and Thomas sold Howe Green Tully 2 by £18,000 John Tully for £20,000 to Neil Richardson, Big Fernyford.

The pen leader from Richard and Gail Harker, Grayrigg Hall, was a son of a home-bred ram which was knocked down for £18,000 to Tom Robinson, Catlow. Their second shearling, by a £20,000 Bull and Cave, made £13,000 to Dan Bower, Woodlands, and David Harker, Overthwaite.

The first day's champion from Steven and Alison Bland and family, Gaisgill, was Cotegill Cottage Dynamite by £18,000 Kingshaugh Deano and made £14,000 to Messrs Lightfoot, Gillside, and David Allinson, West Briscoe.

 The second day's trade peaked at £37,000 for David Harker and his daughter Annie, with Quarry JB10 by a £10,000 Jonathan Burton out of a ewe by a £21,000 Howith. It sold jointly to Martin Wilson, Arnigill House, and Richard Harker, Grayrigg Hall.

The second day's champion, from John Richardson and his sons Ben and Josh, was Ghyll House Obvious, a son of a David Harker out of a ewe by Ghyll House Keeper, which sold for £28,000 to the Porter family, Oxnop. They then sold Ghyll House 007 by Ghyll House Mint for £16,000 to Martin Allan, Knock Hall, and another by the same sire for £12,000 to Richard Hutchinson, Redgate. At the same money was Ghyll House Outrageous, which was knocked down to Dan Bower.

Making £26,000 for Craig Ridley, Haltcliffe, was Haltcliffe Viceroy,  a shearling by a Robert Tennant, which sold in a two-way split to Steven Bland, Cotegill, and John Bradley, Penny Grange.

Steven and Carol Porter and their son Will sold Summer Lodge Scarr 4, by £20,000 Graham Scarr, for £20,000 to Richard Hargreaves, Meadow Bank; Richard Harker, Grayrigg Hall; and Messrs Lightfoot, Gillside.

Aged rams topped at £2,000 for B.R. Fawcett, Leyburn, with a four-shear Raby ram and ram lambs sold to £700 for the champion from Helen Scott, Forcegarth, which sold to Messrs Ridley.

Averages – 329 shearlings, £2,420; 9 aged rams, £1,056; 6 ram lambs, £317.

Auctioneers: Hawes Farmers Auction Mart.

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