FATHER and son team, David and Robin Booth, returned to their winning ways at Bluefaced Leicester show and sale at Skipton, last week, producing the champion and the top priced lot at £3000.
The duo, who run the Smearsett flock at Old Hall Cottage, Feizor, Lancs, first scooped the championship with a ewe hogg by the Riddings H3, a tup purchased last year, out of a full sister to the Booths’ renowned crossing sire D15. She sold for £1200 to Geoff Richmond, of Goosnargh, Preston.
The D15 tup was also responsible for the Booths’ first prize gimmer, which is out of a A1 Hundith-sired ewe and sold carrying twins to their £11,000 Midlock J2 tup. She made £3000 selling to the Ellis Bros at Cragg House Farm, Addingham Moorside.

averages:
13 BFL – Ewe hoggs, £560; in-lamb females, £413.