Top price shearling ram
The top price of 2,550gns went to Sophie Manners and Joe Dilibero's Seawell flock, Towcester, with a shearling ram in the top 1% of breed for TSI and an exceptionally high gigot score after CT scanning at 4.14. By Normanby Wellington and out of a Yarcombe ewe, it sold to Charles Rathmell's commercial flock, Yorkshire.
Another shearling ram from the same pen with similar breeding sold to pedigree breeders Aled and Lisa Evans, Llwyncelyn flock, Beulah, at 2,000gns.
Top priced ram lamb at 2,400gns was a Graylen-bred lamb from Graham and Judith Galbraith, Cumbria. Having been second in the recorded ram lamb class, it is in the top 1% for TSI and top 5% of the breed for scan weight, carcase weight and days to slaughter EBV. It was by Graylen Quartermaster which was male champion at the 2023 National Show.
The buyer was the Derryman family, Devon, who then sold a shearling ram from their Yarcombe flock for 2,150gns. By Treworthal Marshall and out of a Yarcombe Hero bred dam, it was knocked down to John Craig, Yorkshire, for the Lumb flock.
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The male champion was a Highcliffe ram lamb by Parkstock Warrior, out of a daughter of the 2023 Great Yorkshire Show champion, from Stephen Short, Halifax. It sold for 1,600gns to Lucy Heywood for her Thornfalcon flock, Somerset.
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Ewe lambs topped the female section at 1,500gns twice. Firstly, for a Treworthal Marshell daughter from Messrs Derryman which sold for to Harry Elsden, Hertfordshire.
The other ewe lamb to make 1,500gns was the second prize winner by Bridgehaugh Braveheart from Louis and Becky Stainthorpe's Whitby flock, North Yorkshire, whose pen of ewe lambs averaged 1,200gns. The buyer was Charlie Bougourd for the Loxhill flock, Somerset.
Averages: 22 ram lambs, £833.80 (-£276.42 on 2024); 5 shearling rams, £1,680 (+804.30); 18 shearling ewes, £604.92 (-£41.33); 19 ewe lambs, £848.63 (+£20.13).
Auctioneers: Halls.
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