A DISAPPOINTING show for the Scottish Texel Club show and sale at Lanark, saw only half the entry find new homes and a lead price of just 900gns. The event, which also included a small entry of Beltex sheep, which averaged £122.50 for three, was topped by the reserve champion, a gimmer from Aberdeenshire breeder, Richard Reynolds, Peterculter. Mr Reynolds, who is shepherd for Kenny Pratt’s Hilltop flock, and runs just a couple of females, topped the trade with the last gimmer in the catalogue, a daughter of Glenside Valhalla. Bred from a Blackstown ewe bought in Northern Ireland, she sold carrying twin lambs to Allanfauld Yahoo, to Campbeltown dairy farmer, Sandy Pirie, who runs 30 Texel ewes in his Macharahanish flock. The champion, a Garngour gimmer from the Scottish Texel flock champion winners, Alan, Andrew and David Clark, Lesmahagow, sold next at 650gns to J and A Struthers, Boyleston, Cumnock. Securing a second consecutive tri-colour here for the brothers was a daughter of Castlecairn Vavavoom, out of a ewe by Strathbogie Smokey Blue. She changed hands carrying a pair to Garngour Yer Man. Just behind on 620gns, young Andrew Neilson, Brackenridge, Strathaven, sold a Kelso Ultra-sired gimmer carrying a pair to Knock Yardsman, to Robert Harvey, Mayfield, Coleburn.