Bluefaced Leicesters to £11,000 at Hawes

The sale of pedigree female sheep at Hawes also saw Swaledales sell to £2,600 for the first prize ewe and in-lamb Herdwicks to £1,200

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Bluefaced Leicesters to £11,000 at Hawes

Pedigree female sheep

The sale of pedigree female sheep at Hawes topped at £11,000 for the third prize winning Bluefaced Leicester hogg from Messrs Lord's Hewgill flock, North Stainton. By £3,000 Sealhouses and a full sister to the Carlisle champion from earlier this month, it sold to Mike Anderson, Aberdeen, for his Hardhough flock. Another full sister sold for £3,000.

The pre-sale show champion was the winning gimmer hogg by £14,000 H1 Sheughdale from Richard Hutchinson's Kirkby Redgate flock, Kirkby Stephen, which sold for £7,000 to Millie Richardson, Ghyll House, Dufton.

Champion which sold for £7,000

Gimmer shearlings sold to £4,500 for the first prize winner from J. Wight and Son, Crawford. By R26 Midlock and in-lamb to £14,000 T3 Steel, it also sold to Mr Anderson.

The reserve champion was a gimmer hogg by R1 Harkerside from Martin Allen's Greenhow flock, Appleby, which made £2,800 to Stephen Sutcliffe, Horton in Ribblesdale.

Ewes sold to £2,400 for a N18 Dawky daughter carrying a single to T2 Howgate from C. and R. Metcalf's Silver Hill flock, Cowan Bridge, which sold to Messrs Coates, Leck Fell.

Swaledales

Swaledales sold to £2,600 for the first prize ewe from the Hallam family, High Birkwith, which was knocked down to J. Tully, Barnard Castle.

Top price Swaledale

Reserve champion was the winning gimmer shearling from the same home, which made £2,500, also to Messrs Tully.

The winning gimmer hogg consigned by J. and S.J. Bland, Thwaite Bridge, sold for £1,000 to J. Thompson and S. Tully, Corn Close.

Herdwicks

A.D. and T. Harrison, Holmbrook, topped the sale of in-lamb Herdwicks at £1,200, selling to R. Marwood and Son, Hill Top, with other Herdwick ewes from the same home to £650, £450 twice and £400.     

Top price Herdwick

Badger Face Texels and Dutch Spotted

Badger Face Texels from M.W. and H.E. Pedley, Little Musgrave, twice sold to £500 for gimmer hoggs. Dutch Spotted gimmer hoggs from J. Stead, Richmond, twice sold to £300.

Auctioneers: Hawes Auction Mart.

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