Averages: 36 ewes, £533.75; 27 gimmers, £426.61; 25 ewe hoggs, £349.44. Overall, 89 head,£451.74.

MORE than 30 years of dedicated Suffolk sheep breeding came to an end at St Boswells, when Sandy and Grace Sutherland dispersed their New Channel Kirk, from Oxton, Lauder, last week.

The sale, which attracted a packed ringside of buyers, was led by a ewe by Sitlow Surefire out of a home-bred daughter of Templand Toledo. She changed hands carrying her second crop of lambs to Roseden Gold Medal, to Alistair Warden, Skelfhill, Hawick.

Three other lots sold at four-figure prices to include the dearest gimmer at 1100gns, purchased by Highfield Farming, The Knock, Duns. This was last year's reserve champion at Kelso Show, a daughter of Strathisla Sign Off, which also sold due to Gold Medal.

Jim Pate and Hazel Brown, Toxside, Gorebridge, bought several of the top priced lots including a 2013-born ewe by Langside Langat at 1000gns, that has bred sons to £2000. She also is due to Gold Medal.

The same service sire was behind another 1000gns lot, when a Sitlow Surefire-sired two-crop ewe was purchased by CR Fawcett, Wellhouse Farm, Harbottle, Rothbury, Northumberland.

OTHERLEADINGprices

Ewes – 850gns – By Balquhain Bruiser, to WA Wilson, Hutlerburn Farm, Selkirk. 800gns – By Strathisla Sign Off, to JB Pate and Sons, Toxside Farm, Gorebridge. 750gns – By Sitlow Surefire, to WA Wilson, Hutlerburn; By Strathisla Sign Off, to WN Douglas, Catslackburn, Yarrow.

Ewe hoggs – 800gns, by Strathisla Sign Off, to S and G Brown, Woodhead, Dewartown, Gorebridge.

Auctioneers: Harrison and Hetherington.