A FOURTH prize heifer with Highland Show winning genetics on both sides, led the female trade at 7800gns for William Young's Skerrington herd from Hurlford, Kilmarnock.
Sale leader at the Stirling sale was Skerrington Rhona 42, a rising two-year-old daughter of Sowenna Aristocrat which stood champion at Ingliston, in 2013, bred from Skerrington Rhona 32 – the reserve female winner at the Highland in 2015. She sold down to Derbyshire with B Chadwick, Mulberry Way, Hilton.
The first from a draft from Gerald and Morag Smith and son Douglas' Drumsleed herd from Fordoun, Laurencekirk, sold next at 4600gns to James Wightman, Coxhill, Candie, Maddiston, Falkirk. Drumsleed Flavia, by the Hockenhull Matthew-sired retained bull, Drumsleed Caledonia, is out of the show cow, Drumsleed Tabytha which won no fewer than three inter-breed championships. Flavia, a rising three-year-old sold in calf to Barnattin Felix.
The female champion, Chestermann Wick Ginny, an April 2015-born heifer by Overhill House Data, made 4000gns for Nick and Nadia Gwynne, Castlewigg, Whithorn, which sold across the water to Northern Ireland, with N Smith, Garvah, Co Londonderry.
Overall, 20 females sold to average £2827.
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