CRAIG Wilson’s first breeding sheep sale of the season met a great trade, with Scotch Mule gimmer and ewe lamb sections both recording a significant increase in averages on the year. 
It was Peter and Lynn Gray’s annual production sale of Texel gimmers that produced the leading price of £1050 when knocked down to Dalchirla Farms, Muthill, Crieff, followed at £900 for another selling to J Wyllie, Laigh Muir. In all, the Grays sold 22 gimmers to average £519. 
Selling for the top price of £180 in the Mule section was the champion pen of gimmers from G McMorland and Son, High Craighead, Turnberry. Judge Wallace Brown, of Caprickhill, Kilmarnock, picked out a pen from J Paterson, East Dykes, Strathaven, as his reserve which went on to sell for £146.
Mule gimmers met a great trade to average £135.54 for the 842 sold, a rise of £21.79 on the year. 
Among the Mule ewe lambs it was the reserve pen from R Dunlop, Pinvalley, Barr, that led the section at £127 while the champion pen from A Paton and Co, Craig, Straiton, sold for £126. 
The 884 Mule ewe lambs averaged £101.64, a similar rise of £19.14 on the year. 
Texel ewe lambs (125) sold to a top of £103 for a pen from DH Walker and Son, Laigh Alticane, Pinvalley.